Welcome to the Centre for Stellar and Planetary Astrophysics

CSPA was established in 2001 to act as a focus for stellar and planetary research within the Australian astronomical community.

Our areas of interest include: Stellar and Planetary Dynamics and Formation Stellar interiors and Nucleosynthesis General Relativity Solar physics Fluid Mechanics High Energy Astrophysics

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Recent Publications:

Modelling the binary progenitor of Supernova 1993J,
Stancliffe, Richard J.; Eldridge, John J.; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 396, Issue 3, pp. 1699-1708.

The depletion of carbon by extra mixing in metal-poor giants,
Stancliffe, Richard J.; Church, Ross P.; Angelou, George C.; Lattanzio, John C. ; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Online Early

The evolution of low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars and the formation of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars,
Lau, Herbert H. B.; Stancliffe, Richard J.; Tout, Christopher A.; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 396, Issue 2, pp. 1046-1057.