COSMOS Ashley Chrimes - Personal Profiles

Ashley Chrimes - Personal Profiles

Ashley Chrimes

Research Fellow (ESTEC)

Main Research Fields

My research interests are in the explosive transients that occur at the end of high-mass stellar evolution, or arise from the compact objects left behind. I combine theory (e.g. population sythesis) with observations (of host galaxies, the transients themselves and Galactic remannts) to investigate the nature of transient progenitors. I am particularly interested in gamma-ray bursts (both collapsar and compact merger varieties), fast blue optical transients and fast radio bursts.

Keywords

Extragalactic transients
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
Gravitational waves (GW)
Supernovae (SNe)
(Luminous) fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs)
Magnetars
Fast radio bursts (FRBs)
(Binary) stellar evolution

Ongoing collaborations

STARGATE (GRB follow-up with the Very Large Telescope)
ENGRAVE (Electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave sources at the Very Large Telescope)
BPASS (Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis)
Euclid (member of the supernovae & transients science working group)

Publications

Recent publications include,

FIRST AUTHOR

"White dwarf-neutron star binaries: a plausible pathway for long-duration gamma-ray bursts from compact binary mergers", Chrimes et al. (2025), in prep

"The infrared counterpart and proper motion of magnetar SGR0501+4516", Chrimes et al. (2025), submitted

Chrimes et al. (2024b), A&A, 691, 329

Chrimes et al. (2024a), MNRAS, 527, L47

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR

Gaspari et al. (2024), A&A, 692, 21

van Dalen et al. (2024), submitted

Levan et al. (2024), submitted

Levan et al. (2024), Nature, 626, 737

Eappachen et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, 11823

Gaspari et al. (2024), MNRAS, 527, 1101

Inkenhaag et al. (2023), MNRAS, 525, 4042

A full publication list is available at my ORCID page.