A. F. J. Moffat

Research interests

Publications

• The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2016 · 10.1051/0004-6361/201629844

• A COORDINATED X-RAY AND OPTICAL CAMPAIGN OF THE NEAREST MASSIVE ECLIPSING BINARY,δORIONIS Aa. IV. A MULTIWAVELENGTH, NON-LTE SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2015 · 10.1088/0004-637x/809/2/135

• BRITE-Constellation: Nanosatellites for Precision Photometry of Bright Stars

  Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2014 · 10.1086/677236

• A Super-Earth Transiting a Naked-Eye Star

  DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2011

• Binary planetary nebulae nuclei towards the Galactic bulge

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2009 · 10.1051/0004-6361/200811380

• The Very Low Albedo of an Extrasolar Planet:MOSTSpace‐based Photometry of HD 209458

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2008 · 10.1086/591835

• An Upper Limit on the Albedo of HD 209458b: Direct Imaging Photometry with the MOST Satellite

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 10.1086/504252

• No stellar p-mode oscillations in space-based photometry of Procyon

  Nature · 2004 · 10.1038/nature02671

• Wolf--Rayet binaries in the Magellanic Clouds and implications for massive-star evolution -- I. Small Magellanic Cloud

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06052.x

• A New Spectral Classification System for the Earliest O Stars: Definition of Type O2

  The Astronomical Journal · 2002 · 10.1086/339831

• An X‐Ray Investigation of the NGC 346 Field in the Small Magellanic Cloud I. The Luminous Blue Variable HD 5980 and the NGC 346 Cluster

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2002 · 10.1086/343079

• Magellanic Cloud WC/WO Wolf-Rayet stars - II. Colliding winds in binaries

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04127.x

• Magellanic Cloud WC/WO Wolf-Rayet stars - I. Binary frequency and Roche lobe overflow formation

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04126.x

• Spatially Resolved STIS Spectra of WR + OB Binaries with Colliding Winds

  The Astronomical Journal · 2001 · 10.1086/324459

• Optical spectroscopy of X-Mega targets - II. The massive double-lined O-type binary HD 93205

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2001 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04500.x

• ICCD Speckle Observations of Binary Stars. XXII. A Survey of Wolf-Rayet Starsfor Close Visual Companions

  The Astronomical Journal · 1999 · 10.1086/300943

• A Deep Survey for Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars. II. Implications for Galactic Structure and Massive Star Formation

  The Astronomical Journal · 1999 · 10.1086/300908

• Wind Inhomogeneities in Wolf‐Rayet Stars. II. Investigation of Emission‐Line Profile Variations

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1999 · 10.1086/306958

• Outmoving Clumps in the Wind of the Hot O Supergiant ζ Puppis

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1998 · 10.1086/305218

• [ITAL]Hubble[/ITAL] [ITAL]Space[/ITAL] [ITAL]T[/ITAL][ITAL]elescope[/ITAL] Detection of Optical Companions of WR 86, WR 146, and WR 147: Wind Collision Model Confirmed

  The Astronomical Journal · 1998 · 10.1086/300320

• The Luminous Eclipsing SMC OB + WN Binary HD 5980 before and during the Recent LBV‐like Outburst: An Extreme Case of Colliding Winds

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1998 · 10.1086/305475

• A three-dimensional classification for WN stars

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1996 · 10.1093/mnras/281.1.163

• The Dense Galactic Starburst NGC 3603. I. HST/FOS Spectroscopy of Individual Stars in the Core and the source of Ionization and Kinetic Energy

  The Astronomical Journal · 1995 · 10.1086/117684

• Photometry, polarimetry, spectroscopy, and spectropolarimetry of the enigmatic Wolf-Rayet star EZ Canis Majoris

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1992 · 10.1086/171786

• Wolf-Rayet stars in the Magellanic Clouds. VI - Spectroscopic orbits of WC binaries and implications for W-R evolution

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1990 · 10.1086/168232

• Spectroscopic evidence for rapid blob ejection in Wolf-Rayet stars

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1988 · 10.1086/166895

• The Wolf-Rayet population in 30 Doradus and its surroundings

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1987 · 10.1086/164906

• Do novae hibernate during most of the millenia between eruptions? Links between dwarf and classical novae, and implications for the space densities and evolution of cataclysmic binaries

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1986 · 10.1086/164762

• Wolf-Rayet stars in the Magellanic Clouds. II - The peculiar eclipsing binary HD 5980 in the SMC

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1982 · 10.1086/159969

• The Wolf-Rayet binary theta Muscae.

  Journal · 1977

Current projects

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