Links to all my published journal articles can be found in this regularly updated publication summary compiled from NASA's ADS abstract service .

 

For articles not available there in electronic form, I offer the following links to my own collection of:

Reprints of various Reviews and Conference Papers (since 1996):


2014
  1. "Instabilities in the Envelopes and Winds of Very Massive Stars", chapter in an upcoming book on Very Massive Stars, edited by J. Vink.

2013
  1. "StellarWinds", a review chapter in volume 4 of a 6-volume series by Springer on "Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems", T. Oswalt, editor in chief.
  2. "Wind channeling, magnetospheres, and spindown of magnetic massive stars", with A. ud-Doula, R. Townsend, V. Petit, J. Sundqvist and D. Cohen, in proceedings of IAUS302,  Magnetic Fields throughout Stellar Evolution, held in Biarritz, France, 25-30 August 2013,  P. Petit, M. Jardine, and H. Spruit, eds.

2012
1. "Instability & Mass Loss near the Eddington Limit", Chapter 12 in the book Eta Carinae and the Supernova Impostors, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 384, Springer,  2012, p. 275.
2. "The Dynamical Role of Radiative Driving in the Sources and Sinks of Circumstellar Matter in Massive Stars",  Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution. Proceedings of a Joint ESO/Brazilian Workshop held at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, 27 February-2 March, 2012. ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 464. Edited by A. Carciofi and Th. Rivinius. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012, p.255

2011

1. "The Physical Basis of the Lx ~ Lbol Empirical Law for O-star X-rays", a paper presented at "Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars",  a conference held 11-15 July 2011 in Saint-Michel-des-Saints, Quebec to honor the retirement of Tony Moffat. Also available at astro-ph as arXiv:1110.0891

2010

1. "Modeling TeV gamma-rays from LS 5039: An active OB star at the extreme", contributed paper for IAU Symposium 272 on "Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss & Critical Limits", held July 19-23, 2010, in Paris, France. Proceedings edited by  C. Neiner, G. Wade, G. Meynet & G. Peters,
3. "Theory of Winds from Hot, Luminous Massive Stars", invited review presented at 39th Li¸ge International Astrophysical Colloquium on "The multi-wavelength view of Hot, Massive Stars", held in Li¸ge, Belgium, July 12-16 2010. The  proceedings  will be published electronically (only) as a special issue of the bulletin of the Li¸ge Royal Scientific Society.


       2009

1. "Angular Momentum Loss and Stellar Spindown in Magnetic Massive Stars", 2-page write-up of poster paper presented with A. ud-Doula (first author) and R. Townsend at the IAU Symposium 259: From Planets to Stars and Galaxies, held Nov. 3-7, 2008 in Tenerife, Spain.
2. "Radiation Hydrodynamics of Line-Driven Winds",  paper presented at conference on Recent Directions in Astrophysical Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Hydrodynamics, held Mar. 30 - Apr. 3, 2009 in Boulder, CO, USA.

        2008 
    1. "Luminous Blue Variables & Mass Loss near the Eddington Limit", invited review paper (with A-J van Marle) presented at the IAU Symposium 215: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, held December 2008 in Kauai, Hawaii. To appear in conference proceedings.
    2. "Instability & Mass Loss near the Eddington Limit", invited contribution chapter (co-authored with N. Shaviv) to appear in the book,  Eta Carinae and SuperNova Imposters, edited by R. Humphreys and K. Davidson.
2007
    1. "Stellar Magnetospheres", based on lectures given at the school on "Stellar Magnetic Fields" held 22-28 Sept. 2007  in LaRochelle, France.
    2. "Dynamical simulation of the "velocity porosity" reduction in observed strength of stellar wind lines", contributed paper presented at the Workshop on Clumping in Hot-Star Winds held June 2007 in Potsdam, Germany. To appear in conference proceedings.
    3. "Resonance scattering in the X-ray emission lines profiles of ζ Puppis", contributed paper with Maurice Leutenegger et al., presented at the Workshop on Clumping in Hot-Star Winds held June 2007 in Potsdam, Germany. To appear in conference proceedings.
    4. "Using gamma-rays to probe the clumped structure of stellar winds", contributed paper with Gustavo Romero et al., presented at the Workshop on Clumping in Hot-Star Winds\ held June 2007 in Potsdam, Germany. To appear in conference proceedings.
    5. "Continuum-Driven Winds from Super-Eddington Stars: A Tale of Two Limits", contributed paper  with A-J van Marle (first author) and N. Shaviv, presented at  First Stars III workshop held July 2007 in Santa Fe, NM. To appear in conference proceedings.
2006
  1. "Modeling the magnetospheres of luminous stars: interactions between supersonic radiation-driven winds and stellar magnetic fields", invited review presented at the American Physical Society (APS) meeting Philadelphia, PA on Nov. 1, 2006,  co-authored with R. Townsend and A. ud-Doula. To appear in Physics of Plasmas, vol. 14, in press.
  2. "Magnetic Models of Circumstellar Clouds around Massiive Stars", contributed talks presented at the workshop on "Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions" held in Carillo Argentina, Dec. 2006,  co-authored with R. Townsend and A. ud-Doula. To appear in Rev. Mex. AA, in press.
  3. "Rotation and Mass Loss", invited review presented at the conference on "Mass Loss from Stars and Evolution of Stellar Clusters", held 29May-1June 2006 in Lunteren, Holland; to appear in PASP Conf. Ser.,  A. de Koter, L. Smith, & R. Waters, eds.
  4. "Continuum vs. Line Driven Mass Loss and the Eddington Limit", invited talk at the 26th IAU General Assembly, Joint Discussion #05 on "Calibrating the Top of the Stellar M-L Relation", held Aug. 16, 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, to appear in Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 14, XXVIth IAU General Assembly, August 2006, K.A. van der Hucht, ed.
2005
  1. "A Simple Nozzle Analysis of Slow-Acceleration Solutions in 1-D Models of Rotating Line-Driven Stellar Winds",  in the proceedings of workshop on "Stars with the B[e] Phenomenon", held July 2005 in Vlieland, Holland,  published in ASP Conference Series, with Michaela Kraus & Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko, eds.
  2. "Formation and Evolution of Disks around Classical Be Stars",  in the proceedings of workshop on "Stars with the B[e] Phenomenon", held July 2005 in Vlieland, Holland,  published in ASP Conference Series, with Michaela Kraus & Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko, eds.
  3. "Overview of Active OB Stars",  in proceedings of conference "Active OB Stars: Laboratories for Stellar and Circumsellar Physics",  published in ASP Conference Series volume , with S. Stefl, S. Owocki & A. Okazaki, eds.
2004
  1. "Magnetic Channeling of Radiatively Driven Hot-Star Winds ", write-up of contributed talk presented at the conference on "Magnetic Fields in the Universe" held Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2004 in Agros-dos-Reis, Brazil.
  2. "Radiative Forces in Interacting Binaries", write-up of invited talk presented at the conference on "Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries", held 16-20 Aug. 2004 in Sacacomie, Quebec.
  3. "Dynamical Processes in the Formation of Hot-Star Disk", write-up of invited talk presented at the conference on "The Nature and Evolution of Disks around Hot Stars" held in July 7-9, 2004 in Johnson City, Tennessee.
  4. "Radiatively Driven Stellar Winds and Aspherical Mass Loss", invited talk at the conference on "Fate of Massive Stars", held May 24-28, 2004 in Jackson Hole, WY.  (PDF , ps.gz ).
2003
  1. "Stellar Wind Mechanisms and Instabilities", write-up of 4-lecture series presented at the school on "Stellar Winds and Mass Loss" held Oct. 5-10, 2003 in Oleron, France. (PDF ps.gz )
  2. "Rotation and Mass Ejection: the Launching of Be-Star Disks ", talk presented at IAU Symposium #215 on Stellar Rotation held Nov. 12-19, 2003 in Cancun Mexico. ( PDF or ps.gz ).
  3. "The Effects of Field-Aligned Rotation on Magnetically Channeled Line-Driven Winds ", with A. ud-Doula, poster paper presented at IAU Symposium #215 on Stellar Rotation held Nov. 12-19, 2003 in Cancun Mexico. ( PDF )
  4. "Magnetic Spinup of Line-Driven Stellar Winds ", co-authored with Asif ud-Doula, this is write-up of talk I presented at International Conference on Magnetic Fields in O, B, and A Stars held November 2002 in Mmambatho, South Africa (PDF or ps.gz ).
2002

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