Dr
Richard
Parker
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Student Voice Lead for Physics and Astronomy
Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics
r.parker@sheffield.ac.uk
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+44 114 222 3560
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Dr Richard Parker
Hicks Building
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Isotopic enrichment of planetary systems from asymptotic giant branch stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952(1). View this article in WRRO
- The great planetary heist: theft and capture in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 920-934. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions: III. Unbound stars and predictions for Gaia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4), 4615-4630. View this article in WRRO
- Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 485(1), L48-L52. View this article in WRRO
- Was Planet 9 captured in the Sun’s natal star-forming region?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 472(1), L75-L79.
- Dynamical histories of the IC 348 and NGC 1333 star-forming regions in Perseus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(4), 4340-4350. View this article in WRRO
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601.
- No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from their formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- The long-term effects of gas removal from hydrodynamic simulations of star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544(1), 1109-1123.
- Short-lived radioisotopic enrichment from AGB interlopers in low-mass star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544(1), 343-354.
- Hidden binaries in star-forming regions. The Astrophysical Journal, 989(2). View this article in WRRO
- Can planet–planet binaries survive in star-forming regions?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 540(1). View this article in WRRO
- The past, present and future of observations of externally irradiated disks. The Open Journal of Astrophysics, 8. View this article in WRRO
- Deviations from the universal initial mass function in binary star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536(1), 492-497. View this article in WRRO
- Toward a unified injection model of short-lived radioisotopes in N-body simulations of star-forming regions. The Astrophysical Journal, 977(1). View this article in WRRO
- Formation of Jupiter-mass binary objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores. The Astrophysical Journal, 975(2). View this article in WRRO
- JWST/NIRSpec observations of brown dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal, 975(2). View this article in WRRO
- Signatures of mass segregation from competitive accretion and monolithic collapse. The Astrophysical Journal, 974(1). View this article in WRRO
- No signature of the birth environment of exoplanets from their host stars’ Mahalanobis phase space. The Astrophysical Journal, 968(2). View this article in WRRO
- The dynamical evolution of star-forming regions measured with INDICATE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(4), 7477-7491. View this article in WRRO
- Devolatilization of extrasolar planetesimals by 60Fe and 26Al heating. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 528(4), 6619-6630. View this article in WRRO
- A JWST survey for planetary mass brown dwarfs in IC 348*. The Astronomical Journal, 167(1). View this article in WRRO
- JWST/NIRSpec observations of the coldest known brown dwarf*. The Astronomical Journal, 167(1). View this article in WRRO
- Photoevaporation versus enrichment in the cradle of the Sun. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 2399-2410. View this article in WRRO
- A dependence of binary and planetary system destruction on subtle variations in the substructure in young star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 2907-2915. View this article in WRRO
- On the origin of planetary-mass objects in NGC 1333. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 1677-1686. View this article in WRRO
- Isotopic enrichment of planetary systems from asymptotic giant branch stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952(1). View this article in WRRO
- Mother of dragons: a massive, quiescent core in the dragon cloud (IRDC G028.37+00.07). Astronomy & Astrophysics, 675. View this article in WRRO
- Short-lived radioisotope enrichment in star-forming regions from stellar winds and supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(4), 4838-4851. View this article in WRRO
- The evolution of phase space densities in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 519(3), 3643-3655. View this article in WRRO
- Evaporation before disruption: comparing time-scales for Jovian planets in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517(2), 2103-2110. View this article in WRRO
- Dynamics of young stellar clusters as planet-forming environments. The European Physical Journal Plus, 137(9).
- Making BEASTies: dynamical formation of planetary systems around massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 516(1), L91-L95. View this article in WRRO
- The evolution of protoplanetary disc radii and disc masses in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(4), 5449-5466. View this article in WRRO
- The great planetary heist: theft and capture in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 514(1), 920-934. View this article in WRRO
- Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(3), 3173-3206.
- Constraints on star formation in NGC 2264. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(1), 1136-1147.
- Investigating the structure of star-forming regions using INDICATE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(2), 2864-2882. View this article in WRRO
- Long-term stability of planets in and around binary stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507(3), 4507-4520.
- External Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disks: Does Location Matter?. The Astrophysical Journal, 913(2), 95-95.
- Far and extreme ultraviolet radiation fields and consequent disc destruction in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(2), 2665-2681.
- ALMA-IRDC: Dense gas mass distribution from cloud to core scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 503(3), 4601-4626.
- Planet formation in intermediate-separation binary systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(3), 4317-4328.
- Double trouble: Gaia reveals (proto)planetary systems that may experience more than one dense star-forming environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 501(1), L12-L17.
- The birth environment of planetary systems. Royal Society Open Science, 7(11).
- Unlocking Galactic Wolf–Rayet stars with Gaia DR2 – II. Cluster and association membership. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(1), 1209-1226. View this article in WRRO
- Exoplanet detection and its dependence on stochastic sampling of the stellar initial mass function. The Astrophysical Journal, 895(2).
- Dynamical evolution of fractal structures in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(4), 4925-4935. View this article in WRRO
- On the mass segregation of cores and stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 490(1), 350-358.
- Kinematic signatures of cluster formation from cool collapse in the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 489(2), 2694-2701.
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions: III. Unbound stars and predictions for Gaia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(4), 4615-4630. View this article in WRRO
- A tale of two clusters: dynamical history determines disc survival in Tr14 and Tr16 in the Carina Nebula. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(3), 4354-4364. View this article in WRRO
- Rapid destruction of protoplanetary discs due to external photoevaporation in star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485(4), 4893-4905. View this article in WRRO
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: asymmetric expansion of the Lagoon Nebula cluster NGC 6530 from GES and Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486(2), 2477-2493. View this article in WRRO
- Enlarging habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 485(1), L48-L52. View this article in WRRO
- Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(2), 2692-2710. View this article in WRRO
- Evolution of spatio-kinematic structures in star-forming regions: are Friends of Friends worth knowing?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(2), 1679-1689. View this article in WRRO
- On the spatial distributions of dense cores in Orion B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(1), 617-629. View this article in WRRO
- Structure and mass segregation in Galactic stellar clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473(1), 849-859.
- Hierarchical formation of Westerlund 1: a collapsing cluster with no primordial mass segregation?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 472(2), 1760-1769. View this article in WRRO
- Was Planet 9 captured in the Sun’s natal star-forming region?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 472(1), L75-L79.
- How do binary clusters form?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(2), 2498-2507.
- Dynamical histories of the IC 348 and NGC 1333 star-forming regions in Perseus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468(4), 4340-4350. View this article in WRRO
- The Gaia-ESO Survey: Structural and dynamical properties of the young cluster Chamaeleon I. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 601.
- Mass segregation in star clusters is not energy equipartition. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. View this article in WRRO
- Comparisons between different techniques for measuring mass segregation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(4), 3381-3392. View this article in WRRO
- The M-dwarfs in Multiples (MinMs) survey – I. Stellar multiplicity among low-mass stars within 15 pc★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449(3), 2618-2637.
- The formation of a quadruple star system with wide separation. Nature, 518(7538), 213-215.
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 620-638. View this article in WRRO
- Constraints on massive star formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438(1), 639-646. View this article in WRRO
- Testing the universality of star formation - II. Comparing separation distributions of nearby star-forming regions and the field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 427(3), 2636-2646. View this article in WRRO
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV. Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 542. View this article in WRRO
- The same, but different: stochasticity in binary destruction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 424(1), 272-281. View this article in WRRO
- Testing the universality of star formation - I. Multiplicity in nearby star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 421(3), 2025-2042. View this article in WRRO
- The evolution of binary populations in cool, clumpy star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418(4), 2565-2575. View this article in WRRO
- The origin of very wide binary stars. Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics. View this article in WRRO
- On the mass segregation of stars and brown dwarfs in Taurus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 412(4), 2489-2497. View this article in WRRO
- The dynamical evolution of very low mass binaries in open clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411(2), 891-900. View this article in WRRO
- The early dynamical evolution of cool, clumpy star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 407(2), 1098-1107. View this article in WRRO
- The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M⊙ stellar mass limit . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 408(2), 731-751. View this article in WRRO
- The formation of very wide binaries during the star cluster dissolution phase. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 404(4), 1835-1848.
- The formation of very wide binaries. Proceedings of Binaries - Key to Comprehension of the Universe. View this article in WRRO
- Do binaries in clusters form in the same way as in the field ?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(3), 1577-1586.
- The role of cluster evolution in disrupting planetary systems and discs: the Kozai mechanism. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 397(2), 1041-1045.
- DYNAMICAL MASS SEGREGATION ON A VERY SHORT TIMESCALE. ASTROPHYS J LETT, 700(2), L99-L103.
- Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 395(3), 1449-1454.
- Do O-stars form in isolation?. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 380(3), 1271-1275.
- Planet or brown dwarf? Constraints on the formation of H-type objects in IC 348. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- On the occurrence of λ Boötis stars in star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stag040.
- No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from their formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. View this article in WRRO
- The origin of very wide binary systems. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 5(S266), 438-441. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- The Effects of Supernovae on the Dynamical Evolution of Binary Stars and Star Clusters, Handbook of Supernovae (pp. 2313-2329). Springer International Publishing
- The Effects of Supernovae on the Dynamical Evolution of Binary Stars and Star Clusters, Handbook of Supernovae (pp. 1-18). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings
- Life and death of very massive stars. Proceedings of Science
- The formation of brown dwarfs. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. 5(S266) (pp 264-271)
Software, code or databases
Datasets
Preprints
- Can planet-planet binaries survive in star-forming regions?, arXiv.
- Deviations from the universal Initial Mass Function in binary star clusters, arXiv.
- The Great Planetary Heist: Theft and capture in star-forming regions, arXiv.
- Constraints on star formation in NGC2264, arXiv.
- Constraining the initial conditions of NGC 2264 using ejected stars found in Gaia DR2, arXiv.
- Long-term stability of planets in and around binary stars, arXiv.
- Double trouble: Gaia reveals (proto)-planetary systems that may experience more than one dense star-forming environment, arXiv.
- Runaway and walkaway stars from the ONC with Gaia DR2, arXiv.
- Dynamical evolution of fractal structures in star-forming regions, arXiv.
- Dynamical evolution of star-forming regions: III. Unbound stars and predictions for Gaia, arXiv.
- Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known, arXiv.
- Hierarchical formation of Westerlund 1: a collapsing cluster with no primordial mass segregation?, arXiv.
- How do binary clusters form?, arXiv.
- No preferential spatial distribution for massive stars expected from their formation, arXiv.
- Mass segregation in star clusters is not energy equipartition, arXiv.
- Comparisons between different techniques for measuring mass segregation, arXiv.
- The M-dwarfs in Multiples (MinMs) survey - I. Stellar multiplicity among low-mass stars within 15 pc, arXiv.
- Constraints on Massive Star Formation: Cygnus OB2 was always an Association, arXiv.
- Dynamical evolution of star forming regions, arXiv.
- Testing the universality of star formation - II. Comparing separation distributions of nearby star-forming regions and the field, arXiv.
- The same, but different: Stochasticity in binary destruction, arXiv.
- The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey IV: Candidates for isolated high-mass star formation in 30 Doradus, arXiv.
- Testing the universality of star formation - I. Multiplicity in nearby star-forming regions, arXiv.
- The origin of very wide binary stars, arXiv.
- The evolution of binary populations in cool, clumpy star clusters, arXiv.
- On the mass segregation of stars and brown dwarfs in Taurus, arXiv.
- The dynamical evolution of very-low mass binaries in open clusters, arXiv.
- The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit, arXiv.
- The early dynamical evolution of cool, clumpy star clusters, arXiv.
- The formation of very wide binaries during the star cluster dissolution phase, arXiv.
- The origin of very wide binary systems, arXiv.
- The formation of very wide binaries, arXiv.
- Dynamical mass segregation on a very short timescale, arXiv.
- Do binaries in clusters form in the same way as in the field?, arXiv.
- The role of cluster evolution in disrupting planetary systems and disks: the Kozai mechanism, arXiv.
- Using the minimum spanning tree to trace mass segregation, arXiv.
- Do O-stars form in isolation?, arXiv.
- Isotopic enrichment of planetary systems from asymptotic giant branch stars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952(1). View this article in WRRO
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