Avishai Gilkis
@agilkis.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge. Research interests include massive star evolution, core-collapse supernovae and other related phenomena. 🌌
Happy to share a new paper led by @cambridgeastro.bsky.social PhD student David Bour, where we looked into how a star can achieve significant mass gain by accreting gas from a close companion without spinning up too much 💫 The secret ingredient? Magnetic fields 🧲
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September 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy to share a new paper led by @cambridgeastro.bsky.social PhD student David Bour, where we looked into how a star can achieve significant mass gain by accreting gas from a close companion without spinning up too much 💫 The secret ingredient? Magnetic fields 🧲
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Great article 🤩 I met Bill Paxton when I attended the 2018 MESA Summer School in Santa Barbara, which was an amazing experience, and MESA has been an important part of my scientific work for over a decade. Paxton passed away just three weeks ago.
Since its creation by Bill Paxton, the Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) has illuminated the lives of stars and become a staple for stellar scientists: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/12/a... #science #astrophysics
A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars
A Stellar Revolution: How Open-Source Tool MESA Changed the Way We Study Stars on Simons Foundation
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August 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great article 🤩 I met Bill Paxton when I attended the 2018 MESA Summer School in Santa Barbara, which was an amazing experience, and MESA has been an important part of my scientific work for over a decade. Paxton passed away just three weeks ago.
Up on arXiv for a few months, now officially published! With @astroeva.bsky.social, we investigate the diverse lives and endpoints of massive stars, uncovering in some a brief pre-supernova stage with strong winds, perhaps explaining some interesting supernovae: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
The landscape of binary core-collapse supernova progenitors and the late emergence of Wolf–Rayet winds
ABSTRACT. The majority of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) progenitors are massive stars in multiple systems, and their evolution and final fate are affected
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July 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Up on arXiv for a few months, now officially published! With @astroeva.bsky.social, we investigate the diverse lives and endpoints of massive stars, uncovering in some a brief pre-supernova stage with strong winds, perhaps explaining some interesting supernovae: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...