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P. A. Whitelock

Researcher Next ID · RN-043177

Researcher · Engineering

University of Cape Town

Rondebosch, South Africa

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Accepting doctoral researchersFunding unknown
Works count
459
Citation count
8,938
H-index
51
i10-index
140

Research interests

Engineering
Physics and Astronomy
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Publications

  • The wind speeds, dust content, and mass-loss rates of evolved AGB and RSG stars at varying metallicity

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2016 · 10.1093/mnras/stw2708

  • The global gas and dust budget of the Large Magellanic Cloud: AGB stars and supernovae, and the impact on the ISM evolution

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14743.x

  • AGB variables and the Mira period–luminosity relation

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13032.x

  • The luminosities and distance scales of type II Cepheid and RR Lyrae variables

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13181.x

  • The IRSF Magellanic Clouds Point Source Catalog

    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan · 2007 · 10.1093/pasj/59.3.615

  • Cepheid parallaxes and the Hubble constant

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11972.x

  • A Spitzer mid-infrared spectral survey of mass-losing carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2006 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10623.x

  • Asymptotic giant branch superwind speed at low metallicity

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2004 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08417.x

  • Obscured asymptotic giant branch variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud and the period-luminosity relation

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06514.x

  • Infrared colours for Mira-like long-period variables found in the Catalogue

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2002 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03743.x

  • The stellar content of Local Group galaxies

    · 1999

  • Dust shells around carbon Mira variables

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1998 · 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01113.x

  • Galactic kinematics of Cepheids from Hipparcos proper motions

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/291.4.683

  • First results from HIPPARCOS trigonometrical parallaxes of Mira-type variables

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1997 · 10.1093/mnras/287.4.955

  • High-mass-loss AGB Stars in the South Galactic Cap

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1994 · 10.1093/mnras/267.3.711

  • IRAS sources and the nature of the Galactic Bulge

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1991 · 10.1093/mnras/248.2.276

  • A period-luminosity-colour relation for Mira variables

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/241.3.375

  • Symbiotic Miras

    Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 1987 · 10.1086/132019

Current projects

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