Ashley Chrimes

    Research Fellow (ESTEC)

     

    Main Research Fields

    My research interests are in the explosive transients that occur at the end of high-mass stellar evolution, or arise from the compact objects left behind. I combine theory (e.g. population sythesis) with observations (of host galaxies, the transients themselves and Galactic remannts) to investigate the nature of transient progenitors. I am particularly interested in gamma-ray bursts (both collapsar and compact merger varieties), fast blue optical transients and fast radio bursts.


    Keywords

    • Extragalactic transients
    • Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
    • Gravitational waves (GW)
    • Supernovae (SNe)
    • (Luminous) fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs)
    • Magnetars
    • Fast radio bursts (FRBs)
    • (Binary) stellar evolution

    Ongoing collaborations

    Publications

    Recent publications include,

    FIRST AUTHOR

    Chrimes et al. (2024b), accepted for publication in A&A

    Chrimes et al. (2024a), MNRAS, 527, L47

    CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

    Gaspari et al. (2024), accepted for publication in A&A

    van Dalen et al. (2024), submitted

    Levan et al. (2024), submitted

    Levan et al. (2024), Nature, 626, 737

    Eappachen et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, 11823

    Gaspari et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, 1101

    Inkenhaag et al. (2023), MNRAS, 525, 4042

    A full publication list is available at my ORCID page.

    Other info

    Website: Ashtronomy.com