Dr Joachim Bestenlehner
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
University Teaching Associate
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School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Research interests
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My research is centred on the massive star population of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, which are a pair of interacting galaxies on its first encounter with the Milky Way. The aim is to study the physical, evolutionary and stellar wind properties of massive stars, because they are key to our understanding of galaxy evolution and the chemical enrichment of the Universe which are the building blocks of planets and life as we know it today. With their strong outflows and high ionising fluxes they dominate the evolution of star-forming galaxies and are thought to have played a crucial role in providing ionizing radiation, mechanical and chemical feedback in galaxies in the early the Universe.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 690. View this article in WRRO
- X-shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 689. View this article in WRRO
- X-shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 688. View this article in WRRO
- X-shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 688. View this article in WRRO
- Correction to: Oxygen abundance of γ Vel from [O
iii ] 88 μm Herschel/PACS spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529(2), 916-916. - Spectroscopic analysis of hot, massive stars in large spectroscopic surveys with de-idealized models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(4), 6735-6750. View this article in WRRO
- Oxygen abundance of γ Vel from [O III] 88 μm Herschel/PACS spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(2), 2026-2039. View this article in WRRO
- X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675. View this article in WRRO
- Extinction towards the cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 673. View this article in WRRO
- Line luminosities of Galactic and Magellanic Cloud Wolf–Rayet stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(1), 585-612. View this article in WRRO
- Mass loss and the Eddington parameter. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 18(S361), 163-167.
- Next generation spectroscopic analysis for large samples of massive stars. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 18(S361), 145-150.
- The clumped winds of the most massive stars. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 18(S361), 184-189.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 668. View this article in WRRO
- Resolving the core of R136 in the optical. The Astrophysical Journal, 935(2).
- The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS III. The most massive stars and their clumped winds. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 663. View this article in WRRO
- Melnick 33Na: a very massive colliding-wind binary system in 30 Doradus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(4), 6133-6149. View this article in WRRO
- Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD. The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 29(1).
- Massive stars in extremely metal-poor galaxies : a window into the past. Experimental Astronomy, 51(3), 887-911.
- The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS. II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499(2), 1918-1936. View this article in WRRO
- Properties of OB star-black hole systems derived from detailed binary evolution models. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 638. View this article in WRRO
- The Lazy Giants: APOGEE Abundances Reveal Low Star Formation Efficiencies in the Magellanic Clouds. The Astrophysical Journal, 895(2), 88-88.
- VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 636.
- Mass loss and the Eddington parameter: a new mass-loss recipe for hot and massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(3), 3938-3946.
- The Detailed Science Case for the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer, 2019 edition.
- Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(2), 2692-2710. View this article in WRRO
- Stellar Astrophysics and Exoplanet Science with the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE).
- 4MOST: Project overview and information for the First Call for Proposals.
- 4MOST Scientific Operations.
- 4MOST Consortium Survey 9: One Thousand and One Magellanic Fields (1001MC).
- Space astrometry of the very massive ∼150 M⊙ candidate runaway star VFTS682 . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 482(1), L102-L106. View this article in WRRO
- GRAVITY chromatic imaging of η Car’s core: Milliarcsecond resolution imaging of the wind-wind collision zone (Brγ, He I). Astronomy and Astrophysics, 618. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXIX. Massive star formation in the local 30 Doradus starburst. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 618. View this article in WRRO
- Response to Comment on "An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst".. Science, 361(6400). View this article in WRRO
- Subsonic structure and optically thick winds from Wolf–Rayet stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 614, A86-A86.
- An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst. Science, 359(6371), 69-71. View this article in WRRO
- GRAVITY Spectro-interferometric Study of the Massive Multiple Stellar System HD 93206 A. Astrophysical Journal, 845. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 600. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 12(S329), 279-286.
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: Hydrogen lines in red giants directly trace stellar mass. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 594.
- Diagnostics of the unstable envelopes of Wolf-Rayet stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 590.
- The massive stellar population of W49: A spectroscopic survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 589, A16-A16.
- The blue supergiant MN18 and its bipolar circumstellar nebula. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 454(1), 219-237. View this article in WRRO
- Massive main-sequence stars evolving at the Eddington limit. Astronomy and Astrophysics , 580. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 570, A38-A38.
- Discovery of a new Galactic bona fide luminous blue variable with Spitzer. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 445(1), L84-L88. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 564, A63-A63.
- On the possibility that the most massive stars result from binary mergers. EAS Publications Series, 64, 21-28.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 558. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV. Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 542. View this article in WRRO
- Wind Models for Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe. FOUR DECADES OF RESEARCH ON MASSIVE STARS, 465, 207-+.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey I. Introduction and observational overview. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 530. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey III. A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 530. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey II. R139 revealed as a massive binary system. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 530. View this article in WRRO
- Recent star formation at low metallicities. The star-forming region NGC 346/N66 in the Small Magellanic Cloud from near-infrared VLT/ISAAC observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics , 515. View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- SpS5 - II. Stellar and wind parameters. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 10(H16) (pp 420-428)
- The O stars in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 328 (pp 012022-012022)
Preprints
- X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity VI. Atmosphere and mass-loss properties of O-type giants in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
- Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): a spectroscopic VLT monitoring survey of massive stars in the SMC, arXiv.
- X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. IV. Spectral analysis methods and exemplary results for O stars, arXiv.
- Oxygen abundance of gamma Vel from [O III] 88um Herschel/PACS spectroscopy, arXiv.
- Spectroscopic analysis of hot, massive stars in large spectroscopic surveys with de-idealised models, arXiv.
- X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. I. Project Description, arXiv.
- X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. III. Terminal wind speeds of ULLYSES massive stars, arXiv.
- Extinction towards the cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud: An extinction law from the near-infrared to the ultraviolet, arXiv.
- Line Luminosities of Galactic and Magellanic Cloud Wolf-Rayet stars, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: Observational evidence for two distinct populations of massive runaway stars in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- Mass loss and the Eddington parameter, arXiv.
- Next generation spectroscopic analysis for large samples of massive stars, arXiv.
- Resolving the core of R136 in the optical, arXiv.
- The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS. III. The most massive stars and their clumped winds, arXiv.
- Melnick 33Na: a very massive colliding wind binary system in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS. II. Physical properties of the most massive stars in R136, arXiv.
- Weighing stars from birth to death: mass determination methods across the HRD, arXiv.
- Mass loss and the Eddington parameter: a new mass-loss recipe for hot and massive stars, arXiv.
- VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv.
- Properties of OB star-black hole systems derived from detailed binary evolution models, arXiv.
- Massive stars in extremely metal-poor galaxies: A window into the past, arXiv.
- Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known, arXiv.
- The Lazy Giants: APOGEE Abundances Reveal Low Star Formation Efficiencies in the Magellanic Clouds, arXiv.
- Gaia and HST astrometry of the very massive $sim$150 $M_odot$ candidate runaway star VFTS682, arXiv.
- GRAVITY chromatic imaging of Eta Car's core, arXiv.
- Response to comment on "An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst", arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. XXIX. Massive star formation in the local 30 Doradus starburst, arXiv.
- Subsonic structure and optically thick winds from Wolf--Rayet stars, arXiv.
- An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst, arXiv.
- GRAVITY spectro-interferometric study of the massive multiple stellar system HD 93 206 A, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXIV. Stellar properties of the O-type giants and supergiants in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- The Gaia-ESO survey: Hydrogen lines in red giants directly trace stellar mass, arXiv.
- The Massive Stellar Population of W49: A Spectroscopic Survey, arXiv.
- The blue supergiant MN18 and its bipolar circumstellar nebula, arXiv.
- Massive main sequence stars evolving at the Eddington limit, arXiv.
- Discovery of a new Galactic bona fide luminous blue variable with Spitzer, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XVII. Physical and wind properties of massive stars at the top of the main sequence, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XVI. The optical+NIR extinction laws in 30 Doradus and the photometric determination of the effective temperatures of OB stars, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey - XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV: Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- Wind Models for Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey III: A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey II: R139 revealed as a massive binary system, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey I: Introduction and observational overview, arXiv.
- Recent Star Formation in Low Metallicities. The Star-Forming Region NGC 346/N66 in the Small Magellanic Cloud from Near-Infrared VLT/ISAAC Observations, arXiv.
- View this article in WRRO Summary of IAU GA SpS 5 II: Stellar and Wind Parameters.
- Teaching activities
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Digital and Computing Skills