Ashley Ruiter

Associate Investigator

University of New South Wales

Biography

I’m working on connecting different types of thermonuclear explosions to their progenitor stars (e.g. age of star when it exploded, how massive it was, the structure of the companion star, etc.). Many interacting binary stars that do not make supernovae will produce other interesting transients such as R Coronae Borealis stars, AM CVn binaries, novae, or they may instead collapse to form a neutron star (accretion-induced collapse). I am interested in all of these objects, too, and the various elements they synthesise.