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:

Smooth lattice construction of the Oppenheimer-Snyder spacetime,
Brewin, Leo; Kajtar, Jules; Physical Review D, vol. 80, Issue 10, id. 104004

Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics - IV. Using the vector potential,
Price, Daniel J.; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Online Early

Rb-Rich Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in the Magellanic Clouds,
García-Hernández, D. A.; Manchado, A.; Lambert, D. L.; Plez, B.; García-Lario, P.; D'Antona, F.; Lugaro, M.; Karakas, A. I.; van Raai, M. A. ; The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 705, Issue 1, pp. L31-L35 (2009).