Journal Publications

2024

Saunders Nicholas, van Saders Jennifer L., Lyttle Alexander J., Metcalfe Travis S., Li Tanda, Davies Guy R., Hall Oliver J., Ball Warrick H., Townsend Richard, Creevey Orlagh, Dodds Curt, 2024: ‘Stellar Cruise Control: Weakened Magnetic Braking Leads to Sustained Rapid Rotation of Old Stars’, ApJ, 962, 138 (ADS)

2023

Anders Evan H., Lecoanet Daniel, Cantiello Matteo, Burns Keaton J., Hyatt Benjamin A., Kaufman Emma, Townsend Richard H. D., Brown Benjamin P., Vasil Geoffrey M., Oishi Jeffrey S., Jermyn Adam S., 2023: ‘The photometric variability of massive stars due to gravity waves excited by core convection’, Nature Astronomy, 7, 1228 (ADS)
Burssens Siemen, Bowman Dominic M., Michielsen Mathias, Simón-Díaz Sergio, Aerts Conny, Vanlaer Vincent, Banyard Gareth, Nardetto Nicolas, Townsend Richard H. D., Handler Gerald, Mombarg Joey S. G., Vanderspek Roland, Ricker George, 2023: ‘A calibration point for stellar evolution from massive star asteroseismology’, Nature Astronomy, 7, 913 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Kawaler S. D., 2023: ‘Corrected Weight Functions for Stellar Oscillation Eigenfrequencies’, RNAAS, 7, 166 (ADS)
Metcalfe Travis S., Townsend Richard H. D., Ball Warrick H., 2023: ‘Overview and Validation of the Asteroseismic Modeling Portal v2.0’, RNAAS, 7, 164 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Sun M., 2023: ‘Discrepant Approaches to Modeling Stellar Tides, and the Blurring of Pseudosynchronization’, ApJ, 953, 48 (ADS)
Oey M. S., Castro N., Renzo M., Vargas-Salazar I., Suffak M. W., Ratajczak M., Monnier J. D., Szymanski M. K., Phillips G. D., Calvet N., Chiti A., Micheva G., Rasmussen K. C., Townsend R. H. D., 2023: ‘Strong Variability in AzV 493, an Extreme Oe-Type Star in the SMC’, ApJ, 947, 27 (ADS)
Sun Meng, Townsend R. H. D., Guo Zhao, 2023: ‘gyre_tides: Modeling binary tides within the gyre stellar oscillation code’, ApJ, 945, 43 (ADS)
Jermyn Adam S., Bauer Evan B., Schwab Josiah, Farmer R., Ball Warrick H., Bellinger Earl P., Dotter Aaron, Joyce Meridith, Marchant Pablo, Mombarg Joey S. G., Wolf William M., Wong Tin Long Sunny, Cinquegrana Giulia C., Farrell Eoin, Smolec R., Thoul Anne, Cantiello Matteo, Herwig Falk, Toloza Odette, Bildsten Lars, Townsend Richard H. D., Timmes F. X., 2023: ‘Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Time-Dependent Convection, Energy Conservation, Automatic Differentiation, and Infrastructure’, ApJS, 265, 15 (ADS)
Limbach Mary Anne, Soares-Furtado Melinda, Vanderburg Andrew, Best William M. J., Cody Ann Marie, D'Onghia Elena, Heller René, Hensley Brandon S., Kounkel Marina, Kraus Adam, Mann Andrew W., Robberto Massimo, Rosen Anna L., Townsend Richard, Vos Johanna M., 2023: ‘The TEMPO Survey I: Predicting Yields of the Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30-day Survey of Orion with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’, PASP, 135, 014401 (ADS)
Townsend Rich, Lopez Aaron, 2023: ‘MSG: A software package for interpolating stellar spectra in pre-calculated grids’, Journal of Open Source Software, 8, 4602 (ADS)

2022

Guo Zhao, Ogilvie Gordon I., Li Gang, Townsend Richard H. D., Sun Meng, 2022: ‘A new window to tidal asteroseismology: non-linearly excited stellar eigenmodes and the period spacing pattern in KOI-54’, MNRAS, 517, 437 (ADS)

2021

Chontos Ashley, Huber Daniel, Berger Travis A., Kjeldsen Hans, Serenelli Aldo M., Silva Aguirre Victor, Ball Warrick H., Basu Sarbani, Bedding Timothy R., Chaplin William J., Claytor Zachary R., Corsaro Enrico, Garcia Rafael A., Howell Steve B., Lundkvist Mia S., Mathur Savita, Metcalfe Travis S., Nielsen Martin B., Mian Joel Ong Jia, Çelik Orhan Zeynep, Örtel Sibel, Salama Maissa, Stassun Keivan G., Townsend R. H. D., van Saders Jennifer L., Winther Mark, Yildiz Mutlu, Butler R. Paul, Tinney C. G., Wittenmyer Robert A., 2021: ‘TESS Asteroseismology of alpha Mensae: Benchmark Ages for a G7 Dwarf and Its M Dwarf Companion’, ApJ, 922, 229 (ADS)
Rindler-Daller Tanja, Freese Katherine, Townsend Richard H. D., Visinelli Luca, 2021: ‘Stability and pulsation of the first dark stars’, MNRAS, 503, 3677 (ADS)
Sun M., Mathieu Robert D., Leiner Emily M., Townsend R. H. D., 2021: ‘WOCS 5379: Detailed Analysis of the Evolution of a Post-mass-transfer Blue Straggler’, ApJ, 908, 7 (ADS)
Chidester Morgan T., Timmes F. X., Schwab Josiah, Townsend Richard H. D., Farag Ebraheem, Thoul Anne, Fields C. E., Bauer Evan B., Montgomery Michael H. , 2021: ‘On The Impact Of 22Ne On The Pulsation Periods Of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarfs With Helium Dominated Atmospheres’, ApJ, 910, 24 (ADS)

2020

Owocki Stanley P., Shultz Matt E., ud-Doula Asif, Sundqvist Jon O., Townsend Richard H. D., Cranmer Steven R., 2020: ‘How the breakout-limited mass in B-star centrifugal magnetospheres controls their circumstellar H alpha emission’, MNRAS, 499, 5366 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., 2020: ‘Improved asymptotic expressions for the eigenvalues of Laplace's tidal equations’, MNRAS, 497, 2670 (ADS)
Goldstein J., Townsend R. H. D., 2020: ‘The Contour Method: a new approach to finding modes of non-adiabatic stellar pulsations’, ApJ, 899, 116 (ADS)
Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Silva Aguirre V., Cassisi S., Miller Bertolami M., Serenelli A., Stello D., Weiss A., Angelou G., Jiang C., Lebreton Y., Spada F., Bellinger E. P., Deheuvels S., Ouazzani R. M., Pietrinferni A., Mosumgaard J. R., Townsend R. H. D., Battich T., Bossini D., Constantino T., Eggenberger P., Hekker S., Mazumdar A., Miglio A., Nielsen K. B., Salaris M. , 2020: ‘The Aarhus red giants challenge. II. Stellar oscillations in the red giant branch phase’, A&A, 635, A165 (ADS)
Silva Aguirre V., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Cassisi S., Miller Bertolami M., Serenelli A., Stello D., Weiss A., Angelou G., Jiang C., Lebreton Y., Spada F., Bellinger E. P., Deheuvels S., Ouazzani R. M., Pietrinferni A., Mosumgaard J. R., Townsend R. H. D., Battich T., Bossini D., Constantino T., Eggenberger P., Hekker S., Mazumdar A., Miglio A., Nielsen K. B., Salaris M. , 2020: ‘The Aarhus red giants challenge. I. Stellar structures in the red giant branch phase’, A&A, 635, A164 (ADS)
Keszthelyi Z., Meynet G., Shultz M. E., David-Uraz A., ud-Doula A., Townsend R. H. D., Wade G. A., Georgy C., Petit V., Owocki S. P., 2020: ‘The effects of surface fossil magnetic fields on massive star evolution: II. Implementation of magnetic braking in MESA and implications for the evolution of surface rotation in OB stars’, MNRAS, 493, 518 (ADS)

2019

Goldstein J., Townsend R. H. D., Zweibel E. G., 2019: ‘The Tayler Instability in the Anelastic Approximation’, ApJ, 881, 66 (ADS)
Paxton Bill, Smolec R., Schwab Josiah, Gautschy A., Bildsten Lars, Cantiello Matteo, Dotter Aaron, Farmer R., Goldberg Jared A., Jermyn Adam S., Kanbur S. M., Marchant Pablo, Thoul Anne, Townsend Richard H. D., Wolf William M., Zhang Michael, Timmes F. X., 2019: ‘Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation’, ApJS, 243, 10 (ADS)

2018

Timmes F. X., Townsend Richard H. D., Bauer Evan B., Thoul Anne, Fields C. E., Wolf William M., 2018: ‘The Impact of White Dwarf Luminosity Profiles on Oscillation Frequencies’, ApJL, 867, 30 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Goldstein J., Zweibel E. G., 2018: ‘Angular momentum transport by heat-driven g-modes in slowly pulsating B stars’, MNRAS, 475, 879 (ADS) (offprint)
Wolf William M., Townsend Richard H. D., Bildsten Lars, 2018: ‘Non-Radial Pulsations in Post-Outburst Novae’, ApJ, 855, 127 (ADS) (offprint)
Paxton Bill, Schwab Josiah, Bauer Evan B., Bildsten Lars, Blinnikov Sergei, Duffell Paul, Farmer R., Goldberg Jared A., Marchant Pablo, Sorokina Elena, Thoul Anne, Townsend Richard H. D., Timmes F. X., 2018: ‘Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions’, ApJS, 234, 34 (ADS) (offprint)
Shokry A., Rivinius Th., Mehner A., Martayan C., Hummel W., Townsend R. H. D., Mérand A., Mota B., Faes D. M., Hamdy M. A., Beheary M. M., Gadallah K. A. K., Abo-Elazm M. S., 2018: ‘Stellar parameters of Be stars observed with X-shooter’, A&A, 609, 108 (ADS)

2017

Owocki Stanley P., Townsend Richard H. D., Quataert Eliot, 2017: ‘Super-Eddington stellar winds: unifying radiative-enthalpy versus flux-driven models’, MNRAS, 472, 3749-3760 (ADS)
Petit V., Keszthelyi Z., MacInnis R., Cohen D. H., Townsend R. H. D., Wade G. A., Thomas S. L., Owocki S. P., Puls J., ud-Doula A., 2017: ‘Magnetic massive stars as progenitors of `heavy' stellar-mass black holes’, MNRAS, 466, 1052 (ADS)
Kurapati Sushma, Chandra Poonam, Wade Gregg, Cohen David H., David-Uraz Alexandre, Gagne Marc, Grunhut Jason, Oksala Mary E., Petit Veronique, Shultz Matt, Sundqvist Jon, Townsend Richard H. D., ud-Doula Asif, 2017: ‘A JVLA survey of the high-frequency radio emission of the massive magnetic B- and O-type stars’, MNRAS, 465, 2160 (ADS)

2016

Bard Christopher, Townsend Richard H. D., 2016: ‘Effect of a magnetic field on massive-star winds - I. Mass-loss and velocity for a dipole field’, MNRAS, 462, 3672 (ADS)
Owocki Stanley P., ud-Doula Asif, Sundqvist Jon O., Petit Veronique, Cohen David H., Townsend Richard H. D., 2016: ‘An `analytic dynamical magnetosphere' formalism for X-ray and optical emission from slowly rotating magnetic massive stars’, MNRAS, 462, 3830 (ADS)
Moravveji Ehsan, Townsend Richard H. D., Aerts Conny, Mathis Stéphane , 2016: ‘Sub-inertial Gravity Modes in the B8V Star KIC 7760680 Reveal Moderate Core Overshooting and Low Vertical Diffusive Mixing’, ApJ, 823, 130 (ADS)
Paxton Bill, Marchant Pablo, Schwab Josiah, Bauer Evan B., Bildsten Lars, Cantiello Matteo, Dessart Luc, Farmer R., Hu H., Langer N., Townsend R. H. D., Townsley Dean M., Timmes F. X., 2016: ‘Erratum: ``Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Binaries, Pulsations, and Explosions'' (2015, ApJS, 220, 15)’, ApJ, 223, 18 (ADS)
Wade G. A., Neiner C., Alecian E., Grunhut J. H., Petit V., Batz B. de, Bohlender D. A., Cohen D. H., Henrichs H. F., Kochukhov O., Landstreet J. D., Manset N., Martins F., Mathis S., Oksala M. E., Owocki S. P., Rivinius Th., Shultz M. E., Sundqvist J. O., Townsend R. H. D., ud-Doula A., Bouret J.-C., Braithwaite J., Briquet M., Carciofi A. C., David-Uraz A., Folsom C. P., Fullerton A. W., Leroy B., Marcolino W. L. F., Moffat A. F. J., Nazé Y., Louis N. St, Aurière M., Bagnulo S., Bailey J. D., Barbá R. H., Blazère A., Böhm T., Catala C., Donati J.-F., Ferrario L., Harrington D., Howarth I. D., Ignace R., Kaper L., Lüftinger T., Prinja R., Vink J. S., Weiss W. W., Yakunin I., 2016: ‘The MiMeS survey of magnetism in massive stars: introduction and overview’, MNRAS, 456, 2 (ADS)

2015

Paxton B., Marchant P., Schwab J., Bauer E. B., Bildsten L., Cantiello M., Dessart L., Farmer R., Hu H., Langer N., Townsend R. H. D., Townsley D. M., Timmes F. X., 2015: ‘Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Binaries, Pulsations, and Explosions’, ApJ, 220, 15 (ADS) (offprint)
Sikora J., Wade G. A., Bohlender D. A., Neiner C., Oksala M. E., Shultz M., Cohen D. H., ud-Doula A., Grunhut J., Monin D., Owocki S., Petit V., Rivinus T., Townsend R. H. D., 2015: ‘Confirming HD 23478 as a new magnetic B star hosting an Halpha-bright centrifugal magnetosphere’, MNRAS, 451, 1928 (ADS)
Oksala M. E., Kochukhov O., Krtička J., Townsend R. H. D., Wade G. A., Prvák M., Mikulášek Z., Silvester J., Owocki S. P., 2015: ‘Revisiting the rigidly rotating magnetosphere model for sigma Ori E - II. Magnetic Doppler imaging, arbitrary field RRM, and light variability’, MNRAS, 451, 2015 (ADS) (offprint)
Wade G. A., Barbá R. H., Grunhut J., Martins F., Petit V., Sundqvist J., Townsend R. H. D., Walborn N. R., Alecian E., Alfaro E. J., Maíz Apellániz J., Arias J. I., Gamen R., Morrell N., Nazé Y., Sota A., ud-Doula A., MiMeS Collaboration, 2015: ‘Erratum: Rotation, spectral variability, magnetic geometry and magnetosphere of the Of?p star CPD -28° 2561’, MNRAS, 450, 2822 (ADS)
Cunha M. S., Stello D., Avelino P. P., Christensen-Dalsgaard J., Townsend R. H. D. , 2015: ‘Structural Glitches near the Cores of Red Giants Revealed by Oscillations in g-mode Period Spacings from Stellar Models’, ApJ, 805, 127 (ADS)
Shultz M., Rivinius Th., Folsom C. P., Wade G. A., Townsend R. H. D., Sikora J., Grunhut J., Stahl O., MiMeS Collaboration, 2015: ‘The magnetic field and spectral variability of the He-weak star HR 2949’, MNRAS, 449, 3945 (ADS)
Grinberg V., Leutenegger M. A., Hell N., Pottschmidt K., Böck M., García J. A., Hanke M., Nowak M. A., Sundqvist J. O., Townsend R. H. D., Wilms J., 2015: ‘Long term variability of Cygnus X-1. VII. Orbital variability of the focussed wind in Cyg X-1/HDE 226868 system’, A&A, 576, 117 (ADS)
Wade G. A., Barbá R. H., Grunhut J., Martins F., Petit V., Sundqvist J. O., Townsend R. H. D., Walborn N. R., Alecian E., Alfaro E. J., Maíz Apellániz J., Arias J. I., Gamen R., Morrell N., Nazé Y., Sota A., ud-Doula A., MiMeS Collaboration, 2015: ‘Rotation, spectral variability, magnetic geometry and magnetosphere of the Of?p star CPD -28° 2561’, MNRAS, 447, 2551 (ADS)

2014

ud-Doula A., Owocki S., Townsend R. H. D., Petit V., Cohen D., 2014: ‘X-rays from magnetically confined wind shocks: effect of cooling-regulated shock retreat’, MNRAS, 441, 3600 (ADS)

2013

Rivinius Th., Baade D., Townsend R. H. D., Carciofi A. C., Stefl S. , 2013: ‘Variable rotational line broadening in the Be star Achernar’, A&A, 559, 4 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Teitler S., 2013: ‘GYRE: An open-source stellar oscillation code based on a new Magnus Multiple Shooting Scheme’, MNRAS, 435, 3406 (ADS) (offprint)
Paxton B., Cantiello M., Arras P., Bildsten L., Brown E. F., Dotter A., Mankovich C., Montgomery M. H., Stello D., Timmes F. X., Townsend R. H. D., 2013: ‘Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Giant Planets, Oscillations, Rotation, and Massive Stars’, ApJS, 208, 4 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., Rivinius Th., Rowe J. F., Moffat A. J. F, Matthews J. M., Bohlender D., Neiner C. Telting J. H., Guenther D. B., Kallinger T. Kuschnig R., Rucinski S. M., Sasselov D., Weiss W. W., 2013: ‘MOST Observations of σ Ori E: Challenging the Centrifugal Breakout Narrative’, ApJ, 769, 33 (ADS) (offprint)
Carciofi A. C., Faes D. M., Townsend R. H. D., Bjorkman J. E. , 2013: ‘Polarimetric observations of sigma Orionis E’, ApJL, 766, 9 (ADS) (offprint)
Petit V., Owocki S. P., Wade G. A., Cohen D. H., Sundqvist J. O., Gagné M., Maíz Apellániz J., Oksala M. E., Bohlender D. A., Rivinius Th., Henrichs H. F., Alecian E., Townsend R. H. D., ud-Doula A., the MiMeS Collaboration , 2013: ‘A Magnetic Confinement vs. Rotation Classification of Massive-Star Magnetospheres’, MNRAS, 429, 398 (ADS) (offprint)
Rivinius Th., Townsend R. H. D., Kochukhov O., Stefl S., Baade D., Barrera L., Szeifert Th., 2013: ‘Basic parameters and properties of the rapidly rotating magnetic helium strong B star HR7355’, MNRAS, 429, 177 (ADS) (offprint)
ud-Doula Asif, Sundqvist Jon O., Owocki Stanley P., Petit Veronique, Townsend R. H. D. , 2013: ‘First 3D MHD simulation of a massive-star magnetosphere with application to Hα emission from θ1 Ori C’, MNRAS, 428, 2723 (ADS) (offprint)

2012

Sundqvist Jon O., ud-Doula Asif, Owocki Stanley P., Townsend R. H. D., Howarth Ian D., Wade Gregg A., 2012: ‘A dynamical magnetosphere model for periodic Halpha emission from the slowly rotating magnetic O star HD 191612’, MNRAS, 423, 21 (ADS)
Sundqvist Jon O., Owocki Stanley P., Cohen David H., Leutenegger Maurice A., Townsend R. H. D., 2012: ‘A generalized porosity formalism for isotropic and anisotropic effective opacity and its effects on X-ray line attenuation in clumped O star winds’, MNRAS, 420, 1553 (ADS)
Oksala M. E., Wade G. A., Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., Kochukhov O., Neiner C., Alecian E., Grunhut J., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2012: ‘Revisiting the Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere model for sigma Ori E. I. Observations and Data Analysis’, MNRAS, 419, 959 (ADS) (offprint)
Wade G. A., Grunhut J., Graefener G., Howarth I. D., Martins F., Petit V., Vink J. S., Bagnulo S., Folsom C. P., Nazé Y., Walborn N. R., Townsend R. H. D., Evans C. J., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2012: ‘The spectral variability and magnetic field characteristics of the Of?p star HD 148937’, MNRAS, 419, 2459 (ADS)
Grunhut J. H., Rivinius Th., Wade G. A., Townsend R. H. D., Marcolino W. L. F., Bohlender D. A., Szeifert Th., Petit V., Matthews J. M., Rowe J. F., Moffat A. F. J., Kallinger T., Kuschnig R., Guenther D. B., Rucinski S. M., Sasselov D., Weiss W. W., 2012: ‘HR 5907: Discovery of the most rapidly rotating magnetic early B-type star by the MiMeS Collaboration’, MNRAS, 419, 1610 (ADS)

2011

Alecian E., Kochukhov O., Neiner C., Wade G. A., de Batz B., Henrichs H., Grunhut J. H., Bouret J.-C., Briquet M., Gagne M., Naze Y., Oksala M. E., Rivinius T., Townsend R. H. D., Walborn N. R., Weiss W., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2011: ‘First HARPSpol discoveries of magnetic fields in massive stars’, A&A Letters, 536, 6 (ADS)
Wade G. A., Howarth I. D., Townsend R. H. D., Grunhut J. H., Shultz M., Bouret J. -C., Fullerton A., Marcolino W., Martins F., Nazé Y., ud-Doula A., Walborn N. R., Donati J. -F., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2011: ‘Confirmation of the magnetic oblique rotator model for the Of?p star HD 191612’, MNRAS, 416, 3160 (ADS)
Povich Matthew S., Townsley Leisa K., Broos Patrick S., Gagné Marc, Babler Brian L., Indebetouw Rémy, Majewski Steven R., Meade Marilyn R., Getman Konstantin V., Robitaille Thomas P., Townsend Richard H. D., 2011: ‘Candidate X-ray-emitting OB Stars in the Carina Nebula Identified Via Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions’, ApJ, 194, 6 (ADS)

2010

Monnier J. D., Townsend R. H. D., Che X., Zhao M., 2010: ‘Rotationally-modulated g-modes in the rapidly-rotating δ Scuti star Rasalhague (α Ophiuchi)’, ApJ, 725, 1192 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2010: ‘Fast Calculation of the Lomb-Scargle Periodogram Using Graphics Processing Units’, ApJS, 191, 247 (ADS) (offprint)
Ignace R., Oskinova L. M., Jardine M., Cassinelli J. P., Cohen D. H., Donati J.-F., Townsend R. H. D., ud-Doula A., 2010: ‘A Multi-Phase Suzaku Study of X-rays from τ Sco’, ApJ, 721, 1412 (ADS) (offprint)
Cohen D. H., Leutenegger M. A., Wollman E. E., Zsargó, J., Hillier D. J., Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., 2010: ‘A mass-loss rate determination for ζ Puppis from the quantitative analysis of X-ray emission line profiles’, MNRAS, 405, 2391 (ADS) (offprint)
Oksala M. E., Wade G. A., Marcolino W. L. F., Grunhut J., Bohlender D., Manset N., Townsend R. H. D., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2010: ‘Discovery of a strong magnetic field in the rapidly rotating B2Vn star HR 7355’, MNRAS Lett., 405, 51 (ADS) (offprint)
Rivnius Th., Szeifert Th., Barrera L., Townsend R. H. D., Štefl S., Baade D., 2010: ‘Magnetic field detection in the B2Vn star HR 7355’, MNRAS Lett., 405, 46 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., Oksala M. E., Cohen D. H., Owocki S. P., ud-Doula A., 2010: ‘Discovery of Rotational Braking in the Magnetic Helium-Strong Star Sigma Orionis E’, ApJL, 714, 318 (ADS) (offprint)
Lecoanet D., Zweibel E. G., Townsend R. H. D., Huang Y.-M., 2010: ‘Violation of Richardson’s Criterion via Introduction of a Magnetic Field’, ApJ, 712, 1116 (ADS) (offprint)
Harvey-Smith L., Gaensler B. M., Kothes R., Townsend R. H. D., Heald G. H., Ng C.-Y., Green A. J., 2010: ‘Faraday rotation of the supernova remnant G296.5+10.0: Evidence for a Magnetized Progenitor Wind’, ApJ, 712, 1157 (ADS) (offprint)

2009

Grunhut J. H., Wade G. A., Marcolino W. L. F., Petit V., Henrichs H. F., Cohen D. H., Alecian E., Bohlender D., Bouret J.-C., Kochukhov O., Neiner C., St-Louis N., Townsend R. H. D., The MiMeS Collaboration, 2009: ‘Discovery of a magnetic field in the O9 sub-giant star HD 57682 by the MiMeS Collaboration’, MNRAS, 400, 94 (ADS) (offprint)
Owocki S. P., Romero G. E., Townsend R. H. D., Araudo A. T., 2009: ‘Gamma-Ray Variability from Wind Clumping in HMXBS with Jets’, ApJ, 696, 690 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2009: ‘An Exact Integration Scheme for Radiative Cooling in Hydrodynamical Simulations’, ApJS, 181, 391 (ADS) (offprint)
ud-Doula A., Owocki S. P., Townsend R. H. D., 2009: ‘Dynamical simulations of magnetically channelled line-driven stellar winds - III. Angular momentum loss and rotational spin-down’, MNRAS, 392, 1022 (ADS) (offprint)

2008

Townsend R. H. D., 2008: ‘Exploring the photometric signatures of magnetospheres around helium-strong stars’, MNRAS, 389, 559 (ADS) (offprint)
Skinner S. L., Sokal K. R., Cohen D. H., Gagné M., Owocki S. P., Townsend R. H. D., 2008: ‘High-Resolution Chandra X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy of the σ Orionis Cluster’, ApJ, 683, 796 (ADS) (offprint)
Rivinius Th., Štefl S., Townsend R. H. D., Baade D., 2008: ‘The most rapidly rotating He-strong emission line star: HR 7355’, A&A, 482, 255 (ADS) (offprint)
ud-Doula A., Owocki S. P., Townsend R. H. D., 2008: ‘Dynamical simulations of magnetically channelled line-driven stellar winds - II. The effects of field-aligned rotation’, MNRAS, 385, 97 (ADS) (offprint)
McSwain M. V., Huang W., Gies, D. R., Grundstrom E. D., Townsend R. H. D., 2008: ‘The B and Be Star Population of NGC 3766’, ApJ, 672, 590 (ADS) (offprint)

2007

Mullan D., MacDonald J., Townsend R. H. D., 2007: ‘Magnetic Cycles in the Sun: Modeling the Changes in Radius, Luminosity, and p-Mode Frequencies’, ApJ, 670, 1420 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., ud-Doula A., 2007: ‘A Rigid-Field Hydrodynamics approach to modelling the magnetospheres of massive stars’, MNRAS, 382, 139 (ADS) (offprint)
Smith N., Townsend R. H. D., 2007: ‘The Structure of the Homunculus. III. Forming a Disk and Bipolar Lobes in a Rotating Surface Explosion’, ApJ, 666, 967 (ADS) (offprint)

2006

Townsend R. H. D., MacDonald J., 2006: ‘Excitation of g modes in Wolf-Rayet stars by a deep opacity bump’, MNRAS, 368, 57 (ADS) (offprint)
ud-Doula A., Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., 2006: ‘Centrifugal Breakout of Magnetically Confined Line-driven Stellar Winds’, ApJL, 640, 191 (ADS) (offprint)

2005

Gagné M., Oksala M. E., Cohen D. H., Tonnesen S. K., ud-Doula A., Owocki S. P., Townsend R. H. D., MacFarlane J. J., 2005: ‘Erratum: ``Chandra HETGS Multiphase Spectroscopy of the Young Magnetic O Star θ1 Orionis C'' (ApJ, 628, 986 [2005])’, ApJ, 634, 712 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., Groote D., 2005: ‘The Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere of σ Orionis E’, ApJL, 630, 81 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2005: ‘Influence of the Coriolis force on the instability of slowly pulsating B stars’, MNRAS, 360, 465 (ADS) (offprint)
Porter J. M., Townsend R. H. D., 2005: ‘On the Evidence of Disks around Blue Straggler Stars’, ApJL, 623, 129 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., 2005: ‘A rigidly rotating magnetosphere model for circumstellar emission from magnetic OB stars’, MNRAS, 357, 251 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2005: ‘Kappa-mechanism excitation of retrograde mixed modes in rotating B-type stars’, MNRAS, 364, 573 (ADS) (offprint)
Gagné M., Oksala M. E., Cohen D. H., Tonnesen S. K., ud-Doula A., Owocki S. P., Townsend R. H. D., MacFarlane J. J., 2005: ‘Chandra HETGS Multiphase Spectroscopy of the Young Magnetic O Star θ1 Orionis C’, ApJ, 628, 986 (ADS) (offprint)

2004

Ramachandran B., Jeffery C. S., Townsend R. H. D., 2004: ‘Synthetic photometry for non-radial pulsations in subdwarf B stars’, A&A, 428, 209 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., Howarth I. D., 2004: ‘Be-star rotation: how close to critical?’, MNRAS, 350, 189 (ADS) (offprint)

2003

Maintz M., Rivinius Th., Štefl S., Baade D., Wolf B., Townsend R. H. D., 2003: ‘Stellar and circumstellar activity of the Be star omega CMa. III. Multiline non-radial pulsation modeling’, A&A, 411, 181 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2003: ‘Surface modelling of non-radial pulsators: alternative formalisms within the linear approximation’, MNRAS, 343, 863 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2003: ‘A semi-analytical formula for the light variations due to low-frequency g modes in rotating stars’, MNRAS, 343, 125 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2003: ‘Asymptotic expressions for the angular dependence of low-frequency pulsation modes in rotating stars’, MNRAS, 340, 1020 (ADS) (offprint)

2002

Townsend R. H. D., 2002: ‘Photometric modelling of slowly pulsating B stars’, MNRAS, 330, 855 (ADS) (offprint)

2001

Townsend R. H. D., Ivison R. J., Smail I., Blain A. W., Frayer D. T., 2001: ‘Gigamasers: the key to the dust-obscured star formation history of the Universe?’, MNRAS, 328, 17 (ADS) (offprint)
Rivinius Th., Baade D., Štefl S., Townsend R. H. D., Stahl O., Wolf, B., Kaufer A., 2001: ‘Stellar and circumstellar activity of the Be star mu Centauri. III. Multiline nonradial pulsation modeling’, A&A, 369, 1058 (ADS) (offprint)

2000

Townsend R. H. D., 2000: ‘Surface trapping and leakage of low-frequency g modes in rotating early-type stars - II. Global analysis’, MNRAS, 319, 289 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2000: ‘Surface trapping and leakage of low-frequency g modes in rotating early-type stars - I. Qualitative analysis’, MNRAS, 318, 1 (ADS) (offprint)

1999

Townsend R. H. D., 1999: ‘Spatial wavelet analysis of line-profile variations’, MNRAS, 310, 851 (ADS) (offprint)

1998

Howarth I. D., Townsend R. H. D., Clayton M. J., Fullerton A. W., Gies, D. R., Massa, D., Prinja R. K., Reid A. H. N., 1998: ‘Time-dependent structure in ultraviolet absorption lines of the rapid rotators HD 64760 (B0Ib) and HD 93521 (O9.5V)’, MNRAS, 296, 949 (ADS) (offprint)

1997

Townsend R. H. D., 1997: ‘Spectroscopic modelling of non-radial pulsation in rotating early-type stars’, MNRAS, 284, 839 (ADS) (offprint)

Conference Publications

2016

Kee N. D., Owocki S., Townsend R., Müller H.-R., 2016: ‘Pulsational Mass Ejection in Be Star Disks’, in Sigut T. A. A., Jones C. E., eds., Bright Emissaries: Be Stars as Messengers of Star-Disk Physics, 47 (ADS)
Bard C., Townsend R., 2016: ‘X-rays from Centrifugal Magnetospheres’, in Sigut T. A. A., Jones C. E., eds., Bright Emissaries: Be Stars as Messengers of Star-Disk Physics, 259 (ADS)
Shultz M., Wade G., Rivinius T., Townsend R., MiMeS Collaboration, 2016: ‘Emission from the Centrifugal Magnetospheres of Magnetic B-type Stars’, in Sigut T. A. A., Jones C. E., eds., Bright Emissaries: Be Stars as Messengers of Star-Disk Physics, 251 (ADS)
Hill N. R., Townsend R. H. D., 2016: ‘Hyper-Spectral Synthesis of Active OB Stars Using GLaDoS’, in Sigut T. A. A., Jones C. E., eds., Bright Emissaries: Be Stars as Messengers of Star-Disk Physics, 63 (ADS)
Rivinius Th., Townsend R. H. D., Baade D., Carciofi A. C., Leister N., Stefl S., 2016: ‘The Variable Line Width of Achernar’, in Sigut T. A. A., Jones C. E., eds., Bright Emissaries: Be Stars as Messengers of Star-Disk Physics, 17 (ADS)

2015

Bard Christopher, Townsend Richard, 2015: ‘X-rays From Centrifugal Magnetospheres in Massive Stars’, in Meynet G., Georgy C., Groh J., Stee Ph., eds., Proc. IAU Sym. 307: New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry, 449 (ADS)

2014

Petit V., Cohen D. H., Nazé Y., Gagné M., Townsend R. H. D., Leutenegger M. A., ud-Doula A., Owocki S. P., Wade G. A., 2014: ‘X-rays from magnetic massive OB stars’, in Petit P., Jardine M., Spruit H. C., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 302: Magnetic Fields throughout Stellar Evolution, 330 (ADS)
Owocki S. P., ud-Doula A., Townsend R. H. D., Petit V., Sundqvist J. O., Cohen D. H., 2014: ‘Wind channeling, magnetospheres, and spindown of magnetic massive stars’, in Petit P., Jardine M., Spruit H. C., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 302: Magnetic Fields throughout Stellar Evolution, 320 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Teitler S., Paxton B., 2014: ‘GYRE: An open-source stellar oscillation code based on a new Magnus Multiple Shooting Scheme’, in Chaplin W., Guzik J., Handler G., Pigulski A., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 301: Precision Asteroseismology, 505 (ADS) (preprint) (poster)
Townsend R. H. D., 2014: ‘The Pulsation-Rotation Interaction: Greatest Hits and the B-Side’, in Chaplin W., Guzik J., Handler G., Pigulski A., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 301: Precision Asteroseismology, 153 (ADS) (preprint) (presentation)

2013

ud-Doula Asif, Sundqvist Jon, Owocki Stan, Petit Veronique, Townsend Richard , 2013: ‘3D Simulations of Magnetic Massive Star Winds’, in Massive Stars: From alpha to Omega, 104 (ADS)

2012

Petit V., Gagné M., Cohen D. H., Townsend R. H. D., Leutenegger M. A., Savoy M. R., Fehon G., Cartagena C. A., 2012: ‘Solving the Puzzle of the Massive Star System theta^2 Orionis A’, in Carciofi A., Rivinius Th., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 464: Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution, 397 (ADS)
Carciofi A. C., Faes D. M., Townsend R. H. D., 2012: ‘Polarimetric Observations of sigma Orionis E’, in Carciofi A., Rivinius Th., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 464: Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution, 413 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., 2012: ‘Massive-Star Magnetospheres: The Interplay Between Outflows, Rotation and Magnetic Fields’, in Carciofi A., Rivinius Th., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 464: Circumstellar Dynamics at High Resolution, 385 (ADS)

2011

Teitler S. A., Townsend R. H. D., Bard C. M., 2011: ‘A Novel Approach to Solving the Linearized Stellar Pulsation Equations’, in 217th American Astronomical Society Meeting (poster)
Wade G. A., Alecian E., Bohlender D. A., Bouret J. -C., Cohen, D., Duez V., Gagné M., Grunhut J., Henrichs H. F., Hill N., Kochukhov O., Mathis S., Neiner C., Oksala M., Owocki S., Petit V., Shultz M., Rivinius T., Townsend R., Vink J. S., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2011: ‘The MiMeS Project: Overview and Current Status’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 118 (ADS) (preprint)
Hill N., Townsend R. H. D., Cohen D. H., Gagné, 2011: ‘Rigid Field Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Magnetosphere of Sigma Orionis E’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 194 (ADS) (preprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2011: ‘Modeling the Winds and Magnetospheres of Massive Stars (invited review)’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 148 (ADS) (preprint) (presentation)
Townsend R. H. D., Mast N., 2011: ‘Monte-Carlo Simulations of Linear Polarization in Clumpy OB-Star Winds’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 216 (ADS) (preprint) (poster)
Rivinius Th., Wade G., Townsend R. H. D., Shultz M., Grunhut J., Stahl, O., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2011: ‘Magnetism of the He-weak star HR2949’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 210 (ADS) (preprint)
Oksala M. E., Wade G. A., Townsend R. H. D, Kochukhov O., Owocki S. P., 2011: ‘Modeling the Magnetosphere of the B2Vp star sigma Ori E’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 124 (ADS) (preprint)
Oksala M. E., Wade G. A., Marcolino W. L. F., Grunhut J., Bohlender D. A., Manset N., Townsend R. H. D., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2011: ‘Discovery of a strong magnetic field in the rapidly rotating B2Vn star HR 7355’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 204 (ADS) (preprint)
Rivinius Th., Townsend R. H. D., Štefl S., Baade D., 2011: ‘The rapid magnetic rotator HR7355’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 130 (ADS) (preprint)
Grunhut J. H., Wade G. A., Rivinius T., Marcolino W. L. F., Townsend R. H. D., the MiMeS Collaboration, 2011: ‘Discovery of the most rapidly-rotating, non-degenerate, magnetic massive star by the MiMeS collaboration’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, 190 (ADS) (preprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2011: ‘Modeling Ejecta of Massive Stars’, in Zijlstra A. A., Lykou F., McDonald I., Lagadec E., eds., Asymmetric Planetary Nebulae V, 170 (ADS) (preprint) (presentation)

2010

Rivinius, Th.; Stahl, O.; Stefl, S.; Baade, D.; Townsend, R. H. D.; Barrera, L. , 2010: ‘The (B0+?)+O6 system FN CMa: A case for tidal-pulsational interaction?’, in Neiner C., Wade G., Meynet G., Peters G., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 272: Active OB Stars: Structure, Evolution, Mass Loss and Critical Limits, in press (ADS)

2009

Townsend R. H. D., 2009: ‘Toward self-consistent angular momentum transport in pulsating massive stars’, in Guzik J., Bradley P., eds., AIP Conf. Proc. 1170: Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation, 355 (ADS) (preprint)
ud-Doula A., Owocki S. P., Townsend R. H. D., 2009: ‘Angular momentum loss and stellar spin-down in magnetic massive stars’, in Strassmeier K. G., Kosovichev A. G., Beckmann J., eds., Proc. IAU Symposium 259: Cosmic Magnetic Fields: From Planets, to Stars and Galaxies, 423 (ADS) (offprint)

2008

Townsend R. H. D., MacDonald J., 2008: ‘Can Pulsational Instabilities Impact a Massive Star's Rotational Evolution?’, in Bresolin F., Crowther P. A., Puls J., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, 161 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Cohen D. H., Dessart L., Hubrig S., Nazé Y., Petit V., ud-Doula A., Walborn N. R., 2008: ‘Magnetic Massive Stars’, in Bresolin F., Crowther P. A., Puls J., eds., Proc. IAU Symp. 250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, 577 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., 2008: ‘Techniques for simulating radiative transfer through porous media’, in Hamann W.-R., Feldmeier A., Oskinova L., eds., Clumping in hot-star winds: Proceedings of an international workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, 18 – 22 June 2007, 85 (ADS)
Romero G. E., Owocki S. P., Araudo A. T., Townsend R. H. D., Benaglia P., 2008: ‘Using gamma-rays to probe the clumped structure of stellar winds’, in Hamann W.-R., Feldmeier A., Oskinova L., eds., Clumping in hot-star winds: Proceedings of an international workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, 18 – 22 June 2007, 191 (ADS)
Cohen D. H., Leutenegger M. A., Townsend R. H. D., 2008: ‘Quantitative analysis of resolved X-ray emission line profiles of O stars’, in Hamann W.-R., Feldmeier A., Oskinova L., eds., Clumping in hot-star winds: Proceedings of an international workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, 18 – 22 June 2007, 209 (ADS)

2007

Townsend R. H. D., 2007: ‘The Coupling Between Pulsation and Mass Loss in Massive Stars (Invited Review)’, in Stancliffe R. J., Dewi J., Houdek G., Martin R. G., Tout C. A., eds., AIP Conf. Proc. 948: Unsolved Problems in Stellar Physics, 345 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., 2007: ‘Kappa-Mechanism Excitation of Retrograde Mixed Modes in B-Type Stars’, in Štefl S., Owocki S. P., Okazaki A. T., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 361: Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics, 512 (ADS)
Vinicius M.-M. F., Townsend R. H. D., Leister N. V., 2007: ‘Determination of Be-star Inclinations from Gravity-Darkened Photospheric Spectra’, in Štefl S., Owocki S. P., Okazaki A. T., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 361: Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics, 518 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., Oksala M. E., 2007: ‘New Photometric Observations of σ Ori E’, in Štefl S., Owocki S. P., Okazaki A. T., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 361: Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics, 476 (ADS)
Townsend R. H. D., 2007: ‘σ Ori E: The Archetypal Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere’, in Štefl S., Owocki S. P., Okazaki A. T., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 361: Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics, 110 (ADS)
Schnerr R. S., Henrichs H. F., Owocki S. P., Ud-Doula A., Townsend, R. H. D., 2007: ‘Magnetic Fields and UV-line Variability in β Cephei’, in Štefl S., Owocki S. P., Okazaki A. T., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 361: Active OB-Stars: Laboratories for Stellare and Circumstellar Physics, 488 (ADS)

2005

ud-Doula A., Townsend R., Owocki S., 2005: ‘Centrifugal Breakout of Magnetically Confined Line-Driven Stellar Winds’, in Ignace R., Gayley K. G., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 337: The Nature and Evolution of Disks Around Hot Stars, 319 (ADS) (offprint)
Townsend R., Owocki S., Groote D., 2005: ‘A Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere Model for the Circumstellar Environments of Magnetic OB Stars’, in Ignace R., Gayley K. G., eds., ASP Conf. Ser. 337: The Nature and Evolution of Disks Around Hot Stars, 314 (ADS) (offprint)