Journal Publications

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, in press (preprint)
Townsend R. H. D., 2009: An Exact Integration Scheme for Radiative Cooling in Hydrodynamical Simulations, ApJS, 181, 391 (ADS) (preprint)
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) (preprint)
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

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)
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)
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)
Townsend R. H. D., 2008: Exploring the photometric signatures of magnetospheres around helium-strong stars, MNRAS, 389, 559 (ADS) (offprint)

2007

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)
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)
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)

2006

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)
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)

2005

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)
Porter J. M., Townsend R. H. D., 2005: On the Evidence of Disks around Blue Straggler Stars, ApJL, 623, 129 (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)
Townsend R. H. D., 2005: Influence of the Coriolis force on the instability of slowly pulsating B stars, MNRAS, 360, 465 (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)
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., 2005: Kappa-mechanism excitation of retrograde mixed modes in rotating B-type stars, MNRAS, 364, 573 (ADS) (offprint)

2004

Townsend R. H. D., Owocki S. P., Howarth I. D., 2004: Be-star rotation: how close to critical?, MNRAS, 350, 189 (ADS) (offprint)
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)

2003

Townsend R. H. D., 2003: Asymptotic expressions for the angular dependence of low-frequency pulsation modes in rotating stars, MNRAS, 340, 1020 (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: Surface modelling of non-radial pulsators: alternative formalisms within the linear approximation, MNRAS, 343, 863 (ADS) (offprint)
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)

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 - I. Qualitative analysis, MNRAS, 318, 1 (ADS) (offprint)
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)

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

2009

Townsend R. H. D., 2009: Toward self-consistent angular momentum transport in pulsating massive stars, in Guzik J., Bradley P., Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation, in press (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., 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., Proc. IAU Symposium 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., Proc. IAU Symposium 250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, 577 (ADS)