Dr Richard Parker
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Student Voice Lead for Physics and Astronomy
Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics
r.parker@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3560
+44 114 222 3560
F22, Hicks Building
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Dr Richard Parker
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
F22
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
F22
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Isotopic enrichment of planetary systems from asymptotic giant branch stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952(1). View this article in WRRO
- The great planetary heist: theft and capture in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 920-934. View this article in WRRO
- Runaway and walkaway stars from the ONC with Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 3104-3123. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions: III. Unbound stars and predictions for Gaia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 485(1), L48-L52. View this article in WRRO
- Was Planet 9 captured in the Sun’s natal star-forming region?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 472(1), L75-L79. View this article in WRRO
- No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from their formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(1), 390-400. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamical histories of the IC 348 and NGC 1333 star-forming regions in Perseus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(4), 4340-4350. View this article in WRRO
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601. View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- Toward a Unified Injection Model of Short-lived Radioisotopes in N-body Simulations of Star-forming Regions. The Astrophysical Journal, 977(1), 13-13.
- Formation of Jupiter-mass Binary Objects through Photoerosion of Fragmenting Cores. The Astrophysical Journal, 975(2), 204-204.
- JWST/NIRSpec Observations of Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal, 975(2), 162-162.
- Signatures of Mass Segregation from Competitive Accretion and Monolithic Collapse. The Astrophysical Journal, 974(1), 8-8.
- No signature of the birth environment of exoplanets from their host stars’ Mahalanobis phase space. The Astrophysical Journal, 968(2). View this article in WRRO
- The dynamical evolution of star-forming regions measured with INDICATE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(4), 7477-7491. View this article in WRRO
- Devolatilization of extrasolar planetesimals by 60Fe and 26Al heating. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(4), 6619-6630.
- A JWST Survey for Planetary Mass Brown Dwarfs in IC 348*. The Astronomical Journal, 167(1), 19-19.
- JWST/NIRSpec Observations of the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf*. The Astronomical Journal, 167(1), 5-5.
- Photoevaporation versus enrichment in the cradle of the Sun. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 2399-2410.
- A dependence of binary and planetary system destruction on subtle variations in the substructure in young star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 2907-2915.
- On the origin of planetary-mass objects in NGC 1333. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 1677-1686.
- Isotopic enrichment of planetary systems from asymptotic giant branch stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952(1). View this article in WRRO
- Mother of dragons. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675, A53-A53.
- Short-lived radioisotope enrichment in star-forming regions from stellar winds and supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 4838-4851.
- The evolution of phase space densities in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(3), 3643-3655.
- Evaporation before disruption: Comparing time-scales for Jovian planets in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2), 2103-2110.
- Dynamics of young stellar clusters as planet-forming environments. The European Physical Journal Plus, 137(9).
- Making BEASTies: dynamical formation of planetary systems around massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 516(1), L91-L95.
- The evolution of protoplanetary disc radii and disc masses in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(4), 5449-5466.
- The great planetary heist: theft and capture in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 920-934. View this article in WRRO
- Investigating the structure of star-forming regions using INDICATE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 2864-2882.
- Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Constraints on star formation in NGC 2264. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Long-term stability of planets in and around binary stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Far and extreme ultraviolet radiation fields and consequent disc destruction in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(2), 2665-2681.
- ALMA-IRDC: Dense gas mass distribution from cloud to core scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- Planet formation in intermediate-separation binary systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(3), 4317-4328. View this article in WRRO
- Double trouble: Gaia reveals (proto)planetary systems that may experience more than one dense star-forming environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 501(1), L12-L17.
- External Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disks: Does Location Matter?. The Astrophysical Journal, 913(2), 95-95. View this article in WRRO
- The birth environment of planetary systems. Royal Society Open Science, 7(11).
- Unlocking Galactic Wolf–Rayet stars with Gaia DR2 – II. Cluster and association membership. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(1), 1209-1226. View this article in WRRO
- Exoplanet detection and its dependence on stochastic sampling of the stellar initial mass function. The Astrophysical Journal, 895(2).
- Dynamical evolution of fractal structures in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Runaway and walkaway stars from the ONC with Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(3), 3104-3123. View this article in WRRO
- On the mass segregation of cores and stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(1), 350-358. View this article in WRRO
- Kinematic signatures of cluster formation from cool collapse in the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 2694-2701. View this article in WRRO
- A tale of two clusters: dynamical history determines disc survival in Tr14 and Tr16 in the Carina Nebula. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(3), 4354-4364. View this article in WRRO
- Rapid destruction of protoplanetary discs due to external photoevaporation in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(4), 4893-4905. View this article in WRRO
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: asymmetric expansion of the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530 from GES and Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2477-2493. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions: III. Unbound stars and predictions for Gaia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 485(1), L48-L52. View this article in WRRO
- 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
- Evolution of spatio-kinematic structures in star-forming regions: are Friends of Friends worth knowing?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(2), 1679-1689. View this article in WRRO
- On the spatial distributions of dense cores in Orion B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476, 617-629. View this article in WRRO
- Structure and mass segregation in Galactic stellar clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 849-859. View this article in WRRO
- Hierarchical formation of Westerlund 1: a collapsing cluster with no primordial mass segregation?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472(2), 1760-1769. View this article in WRRO
- Was Planet 9 captured in the Sun’s natal star-forming region?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 472(1), L75-L79. View this article in WRRO
- How do binary clusters form?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(2), 2498-2507. View this article in WRRO
- No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from their formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(1), 390-400. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamical histories of the IC 348 and NGC 1333 star-forming regions in Perseus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(4), 4340-4350. View this article in WRRO
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601. View this article in WRRO
- Mass segregation in star clusters is not energy equipartition. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 459(1), L119-L123. View this article in WRRO
- The M-dwarfs in Multiples (MinMs) survey – I. Stellar multiplicity among low-mass stars within 15 pc★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(3), 2618-2637.
- Comparisons between different techniques for measuring mass segregation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(4), 3381-3392. View this article in WRRO
- The formation of a quadruple star system with wide separation. Nature, 518(7538), 213-215.
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 620-638. View this article in WRRO
- Constraints on massive star formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 639-646. View this article in WRRO
- Testing the universality of star formation – II. Comparing separation distributions of nearby star-forming regions and the field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(3), 2636-2646. View this article in WRRO
- The same, but different: stochasticity in binary destruction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424(1), 272-281. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 542, A49-A49. View this article in WRRO
- Testing the universality of star formation - I. Multiplicity in nearby star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421(3), 2025-2042. View this article in WRRO
- The dynamical evolution of very low mass binaries in open clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411(2), 891-900. View this article in WRRO
- The evolution of binary populations in cool, clumpy star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418(4), 2565-2575. View this article in WRRO
- On the mass segregation of stars and brown dwarfs in Taurus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 412(4), 2489-2497. View this article in WRRO
- The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M⊙ stellar mass limit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 408(2), 731-751. View this article in WRRO
- The formation of very wide binaries during the star cluster dissolution phase. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 404(4), 1835-1848. View this article in WRRO
- The early dynamical evolution of cool, clumpy star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407(2), 1098-1107. View this article in WRRO
- Do binaries in clusters form in the same way as in the field ?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(3), 1577-1586. View this article in WRRO
- DYNAMICAL MASS SEGREGATION ON A VERY SHORT TIMESCALE. ASTROPHYS J LETT, 700(2), L99-L103. View this article in WRRO
- The role of cluster evolution in disrupting planetary systems and discs: the Kozai mechanism. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(2), 1041-1045. View this article in WRRO
- Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 395(3), 1449-1454.
- The origin of very wide binary systems. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 5(S266), 438-441. View this article in WRRO
- Do O-stars form in isolation?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 380(3), 1271-1275. View this article in WRRO
- Deviations from the universal Initial Mass Function in binary star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stae2648.
Chapters
- The Effects of Supernovae on the Dynamical Evolution of Binary Stars and Star Clusters, Handbook of Supernovae (pp. 2313-2329). Springer International Publishing
- The Effects of Supernovae on the Dynamical Evolution of Binary Stars and Star Clusters, Handbook of Supernovae (pp. 1-18). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- Life and death of very massive stars. Proceedings of Science
- The formation of brown dwarfs. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 5(S266) (pp 264-271)
Preprints
- The Great Planetary Heist: Theft and capture in star-forming regions, arXiv.
- Constraints on star formation in NGC2264, arXiv.
- Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars
found in Gaia DR2, arXiv.
- Long-term stability of planets in and around binary stars, arXiv.
- Double trouble: Gaia reveals (proto)-planetary systems that may
experience more than one dense star-forming environment, arXiv.
- Runaway and walkaway stars from the ONC with Gaia DR2, arXiv.
- Dynamical evolution of fractal structures in star-forming regions, arXiv.
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions: III. Unbound stars and
predictions for Gaia, arXiv.
- Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known, arXiv.
- How do binary clusters form?, arXiv.
- No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from
their formation, arXiv.
- Comparisons between different techniques for measuring mass segregation, arXiv.
- Constraints on Massive Star Formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an
Association, arXiv.
- The same, but different: Stochasticity in binary destruction, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV: Candidates for isolated high-mass
star formation in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- The origin of very wide binary stars, arXiv.
- The evolution of binary populations in cool, clumpy star clusters, arXiv.
- The dynamical evolution of very-low mass binaries in open clusters, arXiv.
- The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses
greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit, arXiv.
- The early dynamical evolution of cool, clumpy star clusters, arXiv.
- The formation of very wide binaries during the star cluster dissolution
phase, arXiv.
- The origin of very wide binary systems, arXiv.
- The formation of very wide binaries, arXiv.
- Dynamical mass segregation on a very short timescale, arXiv.
- The role of cluster evolution in disrupting planetary systems and disks:
the Kozai mechanism, arXiv.
- Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation, arXiv.
- Do O-stars form in isolation?, arXiv.
- Isotopic enrichment of planetary systems from asymptotic giant branch stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952(1). View this article in WRRO
- Research group