Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My primary area of research interest is in the evolution and nucleosynthesis of sun-like low and intermediate-mass stars and the origin of elements in galaxies. The story of the origin of the elements is intimately tied to the processes of stellar evolution, which describes how stars change with time as a result of nuclear fusion. One focus of my research is the intriguing mystery of the production of heavy elements in stars, that is, elements heavier than iron. While astronomers can explain the origin of most of the elements in nature, the type of the stars that produced the heavy elements is still highly uncertain, especially in the early Universe. My research has been focused on the role that low and intermediate-star stars play in this story.
Biography
Amanda completed her PhD Monash University in 2004, before spending 3 years in postdoctoral positions in Canada (McMaster University and Saint Mary's University). She moved to the Australian National University at the end of 2006 for an Australian Reserach Council funded postdoctoral fellowship and stayed at the ANU for another 6 years, first as a Stromlo Fellow and then Future Fellow. She started at Monash University as a Senior Lecturer at the beginning of 2016. She is an affiliate member of the Kavli "Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe" at the University of Tokyo, Japan and has held visiting fellowships at a number of institutes around the world including Utrecht University, the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin.
External positions
Affiliate Member, University of Tokyo
1 Jan 2013 → …
Research area keywords
- Astrophysics
- Nuclear Astrophysics
- stellar nucleosynthesis
- stellar evolution
Network
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ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions
Kewley, L., Stuart B Wyithe, J., Sadler, E. M., Staveley-Smith, L., Glazebrook, K., Jackson, C., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Asplund, M. B., Trott, C. M., Webster, R., trenti, M., Colless, M., Croom, S., Ryan-Weber, E. V., Power, C., Croton, D. J., Driver, S., Abraham, R., Ball, L., Bunker, A., Couch, W., Dalcanton, J., Davies, R. L., Gaensler, B. M., Hopkins, A., Kirby, E., Koribalski, B., Li, D., Christopher Martin, D., Morales, M. F., Morganti, R., Springel, V., Wise, M. W. & Karakas, A.
Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution
30/06/17 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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Modelling the chemical enrichment of the Milky Way
Karakas, A., Lattanzio, J., Lugaro, M. & Kobayashi, C.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), University of Hertfordshire
1/01/17 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
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Explosive nucleosynthesis of a metal-deficient star as the source of a distinct odd-even effect in the solar twin HIP 11915
Yana Galarza, J., Meléndez, J., Karakas, A. I., Asplund, M. & Lorenzo-Oliveira, D., 1 Mar 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 502, 1, p. L104-L109Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Multiple Stellar Populations in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars of Galactic Globular Clusters
Lagioia, E. P., Milone, A. P., Marino, A. F., Tailo, M., Renzini, A., Carlos, M., Cordoni, G., Dondoglio, E., Jang, S., Karakas, A. & Dotter, A., 20 Mar 2021, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 910, 1, 24 p., 6.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access7 Citations (Scopus) -
Population synthesis of accreting white dwarfs: Rates and evolutionary pathways of H and He novae
Kemp, A. J., Karakas, A. I., Casey, A. R., Izzard, R. G., Ruiter, A. J., Agrawal, P., Broekgaarden, F. S. & Temmink, K. D., 1 Jul 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504, 4, p. 6117-6143 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Thermonuclear 19F(p, α)16O Reaction Rate Revised and Astrophysical Implications
Zhang, L. Y., López, A. Y., Lugaro, M., He, J. J. & Karakas, A. I., 20 May 2021, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 913, 1, 13 p., 51.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Constraining nucleosynthesis in two CEMP progenitors using fluorine
Mura-Guzmán, A., Yong, D., Abate, C., Karakas, A., Kobayashi, C., Oh, H., Chun, S. H. & Mace, G., 1 Nov 2020, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498, 3, p. 3549-3559 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review