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Prof. Jorick Vink

Armagh Planetarium and Observatory
  • Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
  • Armagh Observatory and Planetarium

Jorick S Vink

My interest is in massive stars. How do they form? How do they lose mass? How do they evolve and die?

After a master’s project at NASA and a PhD at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, I moved to Imperial College London as a PDRA, then to Keele University as a RCUK Fellow, while I am currently a Research Astronomer at Armagh Observatory. During the merger of the Observatory and Planetarium in 2015-2016 I was Acting Director of the Planetarium.

My research is at the interface of Observation & Theory. On the theoretical side I am particularly interested in the theory of stellar winds & evolution, whilst on the observational side most of my work involves spectroscopy and spectro-polarimetry.

Research

Armagh Planetarium and Observatory

X-Shooting Ulysses

Over the next couple of years we will obtain 250 of massive star spectra in the Ultraviolet with the ULLYSES programme that employs 500 orbits of HST DDT time AND complementary XShooter Optical+Infrared spectra via our ESO-VLT Large Programme that we secured on behalf of the massive star community.

Our interests are in:

  • Wind parameter predictions at low metallicity (Z)
  • Wind parameter estimation from ULLYSES & X-Shooter spectra
  • The evolution of massive stars at low Z – and the Black Hole mass function

Mass Loss Recipe

This is the Python mass-loss recipe from Vink & Sander (2021). An update from the 2000/2001 Vink et al. IDL Routine.

Download python routine

I recently edited a Special Issue in the new Journal “Galaxies” on “Star Formation in the UV”.

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