Ashley Chrimes

 

Main Research Fields

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You can find me at ashtronomy.com! 

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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 synthesis) with observations (of host galaxies, the transients themselves and Galactic remnants) 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

• STARGATE (GRB follow-up with the Very Large Telescope)
• ENGRAVE (Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope)
• BPASS (Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis)
• Euclid (member of the supernovae & transients science working group)

Publications

Recent publications include,

FIRST AUTHOR

Chrimes et al. (2026b), accepted

Chrimes et al. (2026a), A&A, 706, 327

Chrimes et al. (2025b),A&A, 702, 168

Chrimes et al. (2025a), A&A, 696, 172

Chrimes et al. (2024b), A&A, 691, 329

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

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

Sevilla et al. (2026), submitted

Gompertz et al. (2026), ApJL, 997, 4

Leung et al. (2026), ApJL, 997, 1

Levan et al. (2025), A&AL, 704, 8

Cordier et al. (2025), A&AL, 704, 7

Malesani et al. (2025), A&A, 701, 134

Dimple et al. (2025), MNRAS, 544, 547

Levan et al. (2025), ApJL, 990, 28

Gaspari et al. (2025), A&A, 699, 113

van Dalen et al. (2025), ApJL, 982, 47

Lyman et al. (2025), MNRAS, 538, 925

Levan et al. (2025), Nat.Ast., 9, 1375

Gaspari et al. (2024), A&A, 692, 21

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.

Project/mission at ESA

ESA missions I make use of in my research include,

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Gaia
• XMM-Newton
• JWST
• Euclid
• Einstein Probe

Other info

• Research fellow at ESTEC 2023-2026
• ESTEC coordinator for the Leiden/ESA Astrophysics Program for Summer Students (LEAPS) in 2024 & 2025.
• Organiser for the ESTEC breakfast seminar series (2024-2026).

Website: Ashtronomy.com