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Assoc Prof Stephen Marsden

Name Stephen Marsden
Position Associate Professor (Astronomy)
Section School of Sciences
Office D201
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4687 5841
Extension 5841
Email
Qualifications BSc(Hons) Monash , MSc Monash , PhD USQ

Research interests
The Magnetic Activity of Stars

USQ Research affiliations

  • Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre (CESRC)

Research most recent
- Marsden S.C., Petit P., Jeffers S.V., Aurière M., Bouvier J., Carter B.D., Catala C., Dintrans B., do Nascimento Jr. J.-D., Donati J.-F., Fares R., Gastine T., Jardine M., Konstantinova-Antova R., Lanoux J., Lignières F., Morgenthaler A., Morin J., Ramìrez-Vèlez J.C., Thèado S., Van Grootel V. and the Bcool Collaboration, 2014 “A Bcool magnetic snapshot survey of solar-type stars”, MNRAS, 444, 3517.
- Järvinen S.P., Arlt R., Hackman T., Marsden S.C., Küker M., Ilyin I.V., Berdyugina S.V., Strassmeier K.G. Waite I.A., 2014, “Do the observations reveal the underlying dynamo? Case AF Lep”, A & A, accepted.
- Jeffers S.V., Petit P., Marsden S.C., Morin J., Donati J.-F., 2014, “e Eridani: an active K dwarf or a planet hosting star? I: The cyclic variability of its large-scale magnetic field topology” A & A, 569, A79.


Research most notable
- Vidotto A.A., Gregory S.G., Jardine M., Donati J.-F., Petit P., Morin J., Folsom C.P., Bouvier J., Cameron A.C., Hussain G., Marsden S., Waite I.A., Fares R., Jeffers S., do Nascimento J.D. Jr., 2014 “Stellar magnetism: empirical trends with age and rotation”, MNRAS, 441, 2361.
- Donati J.-F., Jardine M.M., Gregory S.G., Petit P., Paletou F., Bouvier J., Dougadous C., Ménard F., Cameron A.C., Harries T.J., Hussain G.A.J, Unruh Y., Morin J., Marsden S.C., Manset N., Aurière M., Catala C., Alecain E., 2008, “Magnetospheric accretion on the T Tauri star BP Tauri”, MNRAS, 386, 1234.
- Aurière M., Wade G.A., Silvester J., Lignières F., Bagnulo S., Bale K., Dintrans B., Donati J.-F., Folsom C.P., Gruberbauer M., Bon Hoa A. Hui, Jeffers S., Johnson N., Landstreet J.D., Lèbre A., Lueftinger T., Marsden S., Mouillet D., Naseri S., Paletou F., Petit P., Power J., Rincon F., Strasser S., Toqué N., 2007, “Weak magnetic fields in Ap/Bp stars. Evidence for a dipole field lower limit and a tentative interpretation of the magnetic dichotomy”, A & A, 475, 1053.
- Barnes J.R., Collier Cameron A., Donati J.-F., James D.J., Marsden S.C., Petit P., 2005, “The dependence of differential rotation on temperature and rotation”, MNRAS, 357, L1.


Publications in ePrints

Seach, J. M. and Marsden, S. C. and Carter, B. D.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0035-8769 and Neiner, C. and Folsom, C. P. and Mengel, M. W. and Oksala, M. E. and Buysschaert, B. (2020) A magnetic snapshot survey of F-type stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 494 (4). pp. 5682-5703. ISSN 0035-8711

Zaleski, S. M. and Valio, A. and Carter, B. D.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0035-8769 and Marsden, S. C. (2020) Activity and differential rotation of the early M dwarf Kepler-45 from transit mapping. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492. pp. 5141-5151. ISSN 0035-8711

Hengst, S. and Marshall, J. P. and Horner, J. and Marsden, S. C. (2020) Erratum: Multi-wavelength, spatially resolved modelling of HD 48682’s debris disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 499 (1). pp. 616-617. ISSN 0035-8711

Cang, T. -Q. and Petit, P. and Donati, J. -F. and Folsom, C. P. and Jardine, M. and D'Angelo, C. Villarreal and Vidotto, A. A. and Marsden, S. C. and Gallet, F. and Zaire, B. (2020) Magnetic field and prominences of the young, solar-like, ultra-rapid rotator V530 Persei. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 643:A39. pp. 1-16. ISSN 0004-6361

Lund, K. and Jardine, M. and Lehmann, L. T. and Mackay, D. H. and See, V. and Vidotto, A. A. and Donati, J. -F. and Fares, R. and Folsom, C. P. and Jeffers, S. V. and Marsden, S. C. and Morin, J. and Petit, P. (2020) Measuring stellar magnetic helicity density. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 (1). pp. 1003-1012. ISSN 0035-8711

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