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Alexander Heger

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20072019
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Biography

Alexander works in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University as a Professor.

Alexander's research areas of interest are:

Life and explosive death of massive stars
The origin of the elements
Nuclear astrophysics

Current work comprises the study of massive to supermassive stars (10-100,000 solar masses); the first generations of stars in the universe (Pop III stars); evolution of rotating massive stars and the spin of their remnants; mixing and transport processes in the stellar interior; nucleosynthesis and the origin of elements, including galacto-chemical evolution - which elements are made where and when; supernovae (mechanisms and nucleosynthesis); gamma-ray bursts (collapsars and similar models) and their progenitors; modeling of Type I X-ray bursts and superbursts (thermonuclear explosions on the surface of neutron stars).

Keywords

  • stars
  • origin of the elements
  • nuclear astrophysics

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Projects 2015 2017

Nuclear reactions in superdense matter - from the laboratory to the stars

Galloway, D. K., Heger, A., Schatz, H., Keek, L., Chenevez, J., Cumming, A., Brown, E., Sun, Y., Cyburt, R. H., Thielemann, F. K. & Falanga, M.

1/06/15 → 30/06/17

Project: Research

Research Output 2007 2019

Dense matter with eXTP

Watts, A. L., Yu, W. F., Poutanen, J., Zhang, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Bogdanov, S., Ji, L., Patruno, A., Riley, T. E., Bakala, P., Baykal, A., Bernardini, F., Bombaci, I., Brown, E., Cavecchi, Y., Chakrabarty, D., Chenevez, J., Degenaar, N., Del Santo, M., Di Salvo, T. & 56 othersDoroshenko, V., Falanga, M., Ferdman, R. D., Feroci, M., Gambino, A. F., Ge, M. Y., Greif, S. K., Guillot, S., Gungor, C., Hartmann, D. H., Hebeler, K., Heger, A., Homan, J., Iaria, R., Zand, J. I., Kargaltsev, O., Kurkela, A., Lai, X. Y., Li, A., Li, X. D., Li, Z. S., Linares, M., Lu, F. J., Mahmoodifar, S., Méndez, M., Coleman Miller, M., Morsink, S., Nättilä, J., Possenti, A., Prescod-Weinstein, C., Qu, J. L., Riggio, A., Salmi, T., Sanna, A., Santangelo, A., Schatz, H., Schwenk, A., Song, L. M., Šrámková, E., Stappers, B., Stiele, H., Strohmayer, T., Tews, I., Tolos, L., Török, G., Tsang, D., Urbanec, M., Vacchi, A., Xu, R. X., Xu, Y. P., Zane, S., Zhang, G. B., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, W. D., Zheng, S. J. & Zhou, X., 1 Feb 2019, In : Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy. 62, 2, 17 p., 29503.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

Explosions of blue supergiants from binary mergers for SN 1987A

Menon, A., Utrobin, V. & Heger, A., 1 Jan 2019, In : Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482, 1, p. 438-452 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Observatory science with eXTP

in ’t Zand, J. J. M., Bozzo, E., Qu, J. L., Li, X. D., Amati, L., Chen, Y., Donnarumma, I., Doroshenko, V., Drake, S. A., Hernanz, M., Jenke, P. A., Maccarone, T. J., Mahmoodifar, S., de Martino, D., De Rosa, A., Rossi, E. M., Rowlinson, A., Sala, G., Stratta, G., Tauris, T. M. & 164 othersWilms, J., Wu, X. F., Zhou, P., Agudo, I., Altamirano, D., Atteia, J. L., Andersson, N. A., Baglio, M. C., Ballantyne, D. R., Baykal, A., Behar, E., Belloni, T., Bhattacharyya, S., Bianchi, S., Bilous, A., Blay, P., Braga, J., Brandt, S., Brown, E. F., Bucciantini, N., Burderi, L., Cackett, E. M., Campana, R., Campana, S., Casella, P., Cavecchi, Y., Chambers, F., Chen, L., Chen, Y. P., Chenevez, J., Chernyakova, M., Jin, C. C., Ciolfi, R., Costantini, E., Cumming, A., D’Aì, A., Dai, Z. G., D’Ammando, F., De Pasquale, M., Degenaar, N., Del Santo, M., D’Elia, V., Di Salvo, T., Doyle, G., Falanga, M., Fan, X. L., Ferdman, R. D., Feroci, M., Fraschetti, F., Galloway, D. K., Gambino, A. F., Gandhi, P., Ge, M. Y., Gendre, B., Gill, R., Götz, D., Gouiffès, C., Grandi, P., Granot, J., Güdel, M., Heger, A., Heinke, C. O., Homan, J., Iaria, R., Iwasawa, K., Izzo, L., Ji, L., Jonker, P. G., José, J., Kaastra, J. S., Kalemci, E., Kargaltsev, O., Kawai, N., Keek, L., Komossa, S., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuiper, L., Kunneriath, D., Li, G., Liang, E. W., Linares, M., Longo, F., Lu, F. J., Lutovinov, A. A., Malyshev, D., Malzac, J., Manousakis, A., McHardy, I., Mehdipour, M., Men, Y. P., Méndez, M., Mignani, R. P., Mikusincova, R., Miller, M. C., Miniutti, G., Motch, C., Nättilä, J., Nardini, E., Neubert, T., O’Brien, P. T., Orlandini, M., Osborne, J. P., Pacciani, L., Paltani, S., Paolillo, M., Papadakis, I. E., Paul, B., Pellizzoni, A., Peretz, U., Pérez Torres, M. A., Perinati, E., Prescod-Weinstein, C., Reig, P., Riggio, A., Rodriguez, J., Rodríguez-Gil, P., Romano, P., Różańska, A., Sakamoto, T., Salmi, T., Salvaterra, R., Sanna, A., Santangelo, A., Savolainen, T., Schanne, S., Schatz, H., Shao, L. J., Shearer, A., Shore, S. N., Stappers, B. W., Strohmayer, T. E., Suleimanov, V. F., Svoboda, J., Thielemann, F. K., Tombesi, F., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Turriziani, S., Vacchi, A., Vercellone, S., Vink, J., Wang, J. M., Wang, J. F., Watts, A. L., Weng, S. S., Weinberg, N. N., Wheatley, P. J., Wijnands, R., Woods, T. E., Woosley, S. E., Xiong, S. L., Xu, Y. P., Yan, Z., Younes, G., Yu, W. F., Yuan, F., Zampieri, L., Zane, S., Zdziarski, A. A., Zhang, S. N., Zhang, S., Zhang, S., Zhang, X. & Zingale, M., 1 Feb 2019, In : Science China: Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy. 62, 2, 42 p., 29506.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review

A High-resolution Study of Presupernova Core Structure

Sukhbold, T., Woosley, S. & Heger, A., 20 Jun 2018, In : The Astrophysical Journal. 860, 2, 22 p., 93.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

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Black Hole Formation and Fallback during the Supernova Explosion of a 40 M⊙ Star

Chan, C., Müller, B., Heger, A., Pakmor, R. & Springel, V., 1 Jan 2018, In : Astrophysical Journal Letters. 852, 1, 6 p., L19.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review

Open Access
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