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Research interests

  • hot evolved stars
  • white dwarfs
  • binary stars
  • stellar populations

Teaching specialisms

  • astrophysics
  • financial maths

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  • Testing the mass-radius relation of white dwarfs in common proper-motion pairs: I. Hydrogen-dominated atmospheres

    Raddi, R., Rebassa-Mansergas, A., Torres, S., Camisassa, M. E., Napiwotzki, R., Koester, D., Tremblay, P.-E., Heber, U. & Althaus, L., 12 Mar 2025, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 695, p. 1-17 17 p., A131.

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  • The evolutionary history of GD 1400AB, a white dwarf–brown dwarf binary

    Casewell, S. L., Burleigh, M. R., Napiwotzki, R., Zorotovic, M., Bergeron, P., French, J. R., Hermes, J. J., Faedi, F. & Lawrie, K. L., 7 Oct 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS). 535, 1, p. 753-762 10 p.

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  • The Fornax3D project: Planetary nebulae catalogue and independent distance measurements to Fornax cluster galaxies

    Spriggs, T. W., Sarz, M., Anta, P. M.G.-D., Napiwotzki, R., Viaene, S., Nedelchev, B., Coccato, L., Corsini, E. M., Fahrion, K., Falcón-Barroso, J., Gadotti, D. A., Iodice, E., Lyubenova, M., Martín-Navarro, I., McDermid, R. M., Morelli, L., Pinna, F., Ven, G. V. D., Zeeuw, P. T. D. & Zhu, L., 29 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 653, 21 p., A167.

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  • The ESO supernovae type Ia progenitor survey (SPY): The radial velocities of 644 DA white dwarfs

    Napiwotzki, R., Karl, C. A., Lisker, T., Catalan, S., Drechsel, H., Heber, U., Homeier, D., Koester, D., Leibundgut, B., Marsh, T. R., Moehler, S., Nelemans, G., Reimers, D., Renzini, A., Stroer, A. & Yungelson, L., 27 Jul 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 638, 22 p., A131.

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  • Massive stars in the hinterland of the young cluster, Westerlund 2

    Drew, J. E., Herrero, A., Mohr-Smith, M., Monguio, M., Wright, N. J., Kupfer, T. & Napiwotzki, R., 21 Oct 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 480, 2, p. 2109–2124 16 p.

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