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I currently hold a Readership Faculty position and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University in the UK. This website contains information about me and my research activities. If you wish to get in contact with me then please email me.

Research

Find out more about my current and past research interests, projects and publications.

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About Me

Find out more about me, including my employment history and my contact details.

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Useful Links

  • My BitBucket: bitbucket.org/DominicBowman
  • My GitHub: github.com/dbowman234

  • School of MSP homepage: ncl.ac.uk/maths-physics
  • SYMPHONY project website: research.ncl.ac.uk/symphony/

  • IvS homepage: fys.kuleuven.be/ster
  • Mercator homepage: mercator.iac.es

  • ADS: adsabs.harvard.edu
  • arXiv: arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR
  • BRITE-Constellation: brite-constellation.at
  • European Research Council: erc.europa.eu
  • ESO data portal: archive.eso.org
  • FWO homepage: fwo.be
  • GAIA data portal: gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de
  • gaia-kepler.fun: gaia-kepler.fun
  • Good Vibrations Seminars: sites.lesia.obspm.fr
  • Gray's Spectroscopy Website: ned.ipac.caltech.edu
  • KASOC homepage: kasoc.phys.au.dk
  • Kepler EB catalogue: keplerebs.villanova.edu
  • Kepler exoplanet archive: exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu
  • lightkurve software: lightkurve.org
  • MAST homepage: archive.stsci.edu
  • PERIOD04 software: period04.net
  • Royal Society: royalsociety.org
  • Royal Astronomical Society: ras.ac.uk
  • SHOC@SAAO wiki: topswiki.saao.ac.za
  • SIMBAD: simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
  • TASOC homepage: tasoc.dk
  • UKRI homepage: ukri.org
  • XShootU homepage: massivestars.org/xshootu/

  • SYMPHONY project

    I was awarded a prestigous ERC Starting Grant, but the UK was not associated to Horizon Europe framework. Therefore, I received equal funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for my SYMPHONY project at Newcastle University as a Frontier Research Grant (2023-2028; grant agreement number [EP/Y031059/1]), which combines TESS photometry and spectroscopy to perform asteroseismology of massive stars and constrain their uncertain interior physical processes. All project updates, personnel and outputs are listed on the SYMPHONY project website.

    Nature Publications

  • Burssens, Bowman, et al. (2023, NatAst 7, 913-930), 'A calibration point for stellar evolution from massive star asteroseismology'.
  • Pedersen et al. (2021, NatAst 5, 715-722), 'Internal mixing of rotating stars inferred from dipole gravity modes'.
  • Abdul-Masih et al. (2020, Nature 580, E11-E15), 'On the signature of a 70-solar-mass black hole in LB-1'.
  • Bowman et al. (2019, NatAst 3, 760-765), 'Low-frequency gravity waves in blue supergiants revealed by high-precision space photometry'.
  • Science Publications

  • Shenar et al. (2023, Science 381, Issue 6659, 761-765), 'A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar'.