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Dean M. Townsley

University of Alabama · US
Area of research
Astronomy and Astrophysics · Instrumentation
Research interest
Research interests include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astro and Planetary Science, and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.
h-index
24
citations
1,938
works
173
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Non-LTE Synthetic Observables of a Multidimensional Model of Type Ia Supernovae
The Astrophysical Journal 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Approximating Convective Urca Cooling in a Simmering White Dwarf
Journal of Physics Conference Series 2025cited by 1position: middledoi
SN 2022joj: A Potential Double Detonation with a Thin Helium Shell
The Astrophysical Journal 2024cited by 7position: middledoi
Challenges Modeling the Low-Luminosity Type Iax Supernovae
Journal of Physics Conference Series 2024cited by 2position: middledoi
Type Ia Supernova Nucleosynthesis: Metallicity-dependent Yields
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2023cited by 13position: middledoi
SN 2022joj: A Peculiar Type Ia Supernova Possibly Driven by an Asymmetric Helium-shell Double Detonation
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 8position: middledoi
Gravity Modes on Rapidly Rotating Accreting White Dwarfs and Their Variation after Dwarf Novae
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 4position: lastdoi
Dimming the Lights: 2D Simulations of Deflagrations of Hybrid C/O/Ne White Dwarfs Using FLASH
The Astrophysical Journal 2023cited by 4position: middledoi
Flash-X: A multiphysics simulation software instrument
SoftwareX 2022cited by 31position: middledoi
Multidimensional Parameter Study of Double Detonation Type Ia Supernovae Originating from Thin Helium Shell White Dwarfs
The Astrophysical Journal 2021cited by 66position: middledoi
The Heating and Pulsations of V386 Serpentis after Its 2019 Dwarf Nova Outburst
The Astrophysical Journal 2021cited by 5position: middledoi
Multidimensional Parameter Study of Double Detonation Type Ia Supernovae Originating from Thin Helium Shell White Dwarfs
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2021cited by 5position: middledoi
Partly burnt runaway stellar remnants from peculiar thermonuclear supernovae
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019cited by 67position: middledoi
The Intrinsic Stochasticity of the <sup>56</sup>Ni Distribution of Single-degenerate Near-Chandrasekhar-mass SN Ia
The Astrophysical Journal 2019cited by 7position: lastdoi
Thermonuclear (Type Ia) Supernovae and Progenitor Evolution
Journal of Physics Conference Series 2019cited by 4position: lastdoi
Astrophysical Validation
Simulation foundations, methods and applications 2019cited by 2position: lastdoi
Anatomy of the hyper-runaway star LP 40–365 with <i>Gaia</i>
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 2018cited by 44position: middledoi
Further Insight on the Hypervelocity White Dwarf, LP 40–365 (GD 492): A Nearby Emissary from a Single-degenerate Type Ia Supernova
The Astrophysical Journal 2018cited by 39position: lastdoi
Evidence for mass accretion driven by spiral shocks onto the white dwarf in SDSS J123813.73–033933.0
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2018cited by 24position: middledoi
Nucleosynthesis in Thermonuclear Supernovae
2017cited by 64position: lastdoi
Nucleosynthesis in Thermonuclear Supernovae
2017cited by 7position: lastdoi
Nucleosynthesis in Thermonuclear Supernovae
2017cited by 3position: lastdoi
Cosmic Chandlery with Thermonuclear Supernovae
Journal of Physics Conference Series 2017cited by 1position: lastdoi
Effective temperatures of cataclysmic-variable white dwarfs as a probe of their evolution
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016cited by 97position: middledoi
White paper on nuclear astrophysics and low energy nuclear physics Part 1: Nuclear astrophysics
Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 2016cited by 49position: middledoi
GW Librae: a unique laboratory for pulsations in an accreting white dwarf
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2016cited by 21position: middledoi
ERRATUM: “MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): BINARIES, PULSATIONS, AND EXPLOSIONS” (2015, ApJS, 220, 15)
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2016cited by 20position: middledoi
CONSTRAINING THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM EVOLUTION OF V455 ANDROMEDAE
The Astrophysical Journal 2016cited by 10position: middledoi
On Silicon Group Elements Ejected by Supernovae Type Ia
2016cited by 8position: last
On Simulating Type Ia Supernovae
2016cited by 4position: middle

Grants

The Realizability of the Double-Detonation Mechanism for Type Ia Supernovae
NSF2307442$259,8582023–2026PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

A. C. Calder · Argonne National Laboratory13 papers (2012–2025)B. T. Gänsicke · Dartmouth College11 papers (2012–2021)J. J. Hermes · Boston University10 papers (2012–2019)Paula Szkody · Seattle University7 papers (2012–2021) · 6 papers (2012–2017) · 5 papers (2012–2017)Ken J. Shen · University of California, Berkeley5 papers (2019–2025) · 5 papers (2012–2021) · 5 papers (2012–2016) · 4 papers (2017–2023) · 4 papers (2012–2016)I. R. Seitenzahl · Australian National University4 papers (2013–2017)R. Raddi · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg4 papers (2014–2019)F. X. Timmes · University of Arizona4 papers (2012–2016) · 4 papers (2014–2019)A. F. Pala · University of Warwick3 papers (2016–2019)Edward F. Brown · Michigan State University3 papers (2012–2016) · 3 papers (2016–2021)Mark Hollands · University of Sheffield3 papers (2018–2019)N. P. Gentile Fusillo · University of Sheffield3 papers (2018–2019)