Dr Benjamin Davies
Astrophysics Research Institute

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Technology
School: Astrophysics Research Institute
Email address: B.Davies@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 231 2930
Highlighted publications
Davies B, Beasor ER. 2017. The Initial Masses of the Red Supergiant Progenitors to Type-II Supernovae Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Lardo C, Bergemann M, Beasor ER, Plez B, Evans C, Bastian N, Patrick L. 2017. Red Supergiants as Cosmic Abundance Probes: massive star clusters in M83, and the mass-metallicity relation of nearby galaxies Astrophysical Journal, 847 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B. 2016. The evolution of Red Supergiants to supernova in NGC 2100 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463 :1269-1283 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Gazak Z, Plez B, Bergemann M, Evans C, Patrick L. 2015. RED SUPERGIANTS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES: THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 806 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Plez B, Trager S, Lancon A, Gazak Z, Bergemann M, Evans C, Chiavassa A. 2013. THE TEMPERATURES OF RED SUPERGIANTS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 767 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
González-Torà G, Wittkowski M, Davies B, Plez B, Kravchenko K. 2023. The effect of winds on atmospheric layers of red supergiants: I. Modelling for interferometric observations Astronomy and Astrophysics, 669 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Plez B, Petrault M. 2022. Explosion Imminent: the appearance of Red Supergiants at the point of core-collapse Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 517 :1483-1490 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
McDonald SLE, Davies B, Beasor ER. 2021. Red supergiants in M31: the Humphreys-Davidson limit at high metallicity Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510 :3132-3144 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B, Smith N. 2021. The Impact of Realistic Red Supergiant Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution Astrophysical Journal, 922 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Plez B. 2021. The impact of winds on the spectral appearance of red supergiants Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508 :5757-5765 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gonzalez-Tora G, Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Plez B. 2021. The temperatures of red supergiants in low-metallicity environments Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 505 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B, Smith N, Gehrz RD, Figer DF. 2021. The Age of Westerland 1 Revisited Astrophysical Journal, 912 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Asa'd R, Kovalev M, Davies B, Ivanov VD, Rejkuba M, Gonneau A, Hernandez S, Lardo C, Bergemann M. 2020. Analysis of Red Supergiants in VDBH 222 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 900 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Beasor ER. 2020. 'On the red supergiant problem': a rebuttal, and a consensus on the upper mass cut-off for II-P progenitors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, 496 :L142-L146 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B, Smith N, van Loon JT, Gehrz RD, Figer DF. 2020. A new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492 :5994-6006 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Beasor ER. 2020. The 'red supergiant problem': the upper luminosity boundary of Type II supernova progenitors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493 :468-476 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ramírez-Tannus MC, Poorta J, Bik A, Kaper L, De Koter A, De Ridder J, Beuther H, Brandner W, Davies B, Gennaro M, Guo D, Henning T, Linz H, Naylor T, Pasquali A, Ramírez-Agudelo OH, Sana H. 2020. The young stellar content of the giant H II regions M 8, G333.6-0.2, and NGC 6357 with VLT/KMOS Astronomy and Astrophysics, 633 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Heida M, Lau RM, Davies B, Brightman M, Furst F, Grefenstette BW, Kennea JA, Tramper F, Walton DJ, Harrison FA. 2019. Discovery of a Red Supergiant Donor Star in SN2010da/NGC 300 ULX-1 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 883 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Beasor E. 2019. The distances to star-clusters hosting Red Supergiants: $χ$ Per, NGC 7419, and Westerlund 1 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 486 :10-14 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B, Smith N, Bastian N. 2019. Discrepancies in the ages of young star clusters; evidence for mergers? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486 :266-273 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Dessart L. 2019. The surface abundances of Red Supergiants at core-collapse Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483 :887-895 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Evans CJ, Castro N, Gonzalez OA, Garcia M, Bastian N, Cioni M-RL, Clark JS, Davies B, Ferguson AMN, Kamann S, Lennon DJ, Patrick LR, Vink JS, Weisz DR. 2019. First stellar spectroscopy in Leo P Astronomy and Astrophysics, 622 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Stevance HF, Ignace R, Crowther PA, Maund JR, Davies B, Rate G. 2018. Probing the rotational velocity of Galactic WO stars with spectropolarimetry Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 :4535-4543 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B, Cabrera-Ziri I, Hurst G. 2018. A critical re-evaluation of the Thorne-Zytkow object candidate HV 2112 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 :3101-3105 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Crowther PA, Beasor ER. 2018. The luminosities of cool supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds, and the Humphreys-Davidson limit revisited Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478 :3138-3148 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B. 2017. The evolution of Red Supergiant mass-loss rates Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B. 2017. Red supergiants as supernova progenitors PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, 375 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Beasor ER. 2017. The Initial Masses of the Red Supergiant Progenitors to Type-II Supernovae Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Lardo C, Bergemann M, Beasor ER, Plez B, Evans C, Bastian N, Patrick L. 2017. Red Supergiants as Cosmic Abundance Probes: massive star clusters in M83, and the mass-metallicity relation of nearby galaxies Astrophysical Journal, 847 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B. 2017. The evolution of red supergiants to supernovae IAU Symposia Proceedings, 329 :59-63 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lardo C, Cabrera-Ziri I, Davies B, Bastian N. 2017. Searching for GC-like abundance patterns in young massive clusters II. - Results from the Antennae galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468 :2482-2488 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Patrick LR, Evans CJ, Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Ferguson AMN, Bergemann M, Pietrzynski G, Turner O. 2017. Physical properties of the first spectroscopically confirmed red supergiant stars in the Sculptor Group galaxy NGC 55 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468 :492-500 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Beasor ER, Davies B. 2016. The evolution of Red Supergiants to supernova in NGC 2100 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 463 :1269-1283 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Patrick LR, Evans CJ, Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Henault-Brunet V, Bastian N, Lapenna E, Bergemann M. 2016. Chemistry and kinematics of red supergiant stars in the young massive cluster NGC 2100 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 458 :3968-3976 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cabrera-Ziri I, Lardo C, Davies B, Bastian N, Beccari G, Larsen SS, Hernandez S. 2016. Searching for GC-like abundance patterns in young massive clusters Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460 :1869-1875 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
de la Fuente D, Najarro F, Borissova J, Ramirez Alegria S, Hanson MM, Trombley C, Figer DF, Davies B, Garcia M, Kurtev R, Urbaneja MA, Smith LC, Lucas PW, Herrero A. 2016. Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 589 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Henshaw JD, Longmore SN, Kruijssen JMD, Davies B, Bally J, Barnes AT, Battersby C, Burton M, Cunningham MR, Dale JE, Ginsburg A, Immer K, Jones PA, Kendrew S, Mills EAC, Molinari S, Moore TJT, Ott J, Pillai T, Rathborne J, Schilke P, Schmiedeke A, Testi L, Walker DL, Walsh A, Zhang Q. 2016. Molecular gas kinematics within the central 250 pc of the Milky Way Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457 :2675-2702 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cabrera-Ziri I, Bastian N, Hilker M, Davies B, Schweizer F, Kruijssen JMD, Mejia-Narvaez A, Niederhofer F, Brandt TD, Rejkuba M, Bruzual G, Magris G. 2016. Is the escape velocity in star clusters linked to extended star formation histories? Using NGC 7252: W3 as a test case MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 457 :809-821 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Lardo C, Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Gazak JZ, Evans CJ, Patrick LR, Bergemann M, Plez B. 2015. Red supergiants as cosmic abundance probes: The first direct metallicity determination of NGC 4038 in the antennae. Astophysical Journal, 812 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Gazak Z, Plez B, Bergemann M, Evans C, Patrick L. 2015. RED SUPERGIANTS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES: THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 806 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gazak JZ, Kudritzki R, Evans C, Patrick L, Davies B, Bergemann M, Plez B, Bresolin F, Bender R, Wegner M, Bonanos AZ, Williams SJ. 2015. RED SUPERGIANTS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES: THE SCULPTOR GALAXY NGC 300 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 805 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Messineo M, Clark JS, Figer DF, Kudritzki R-P, Najarro F, Rich RM, Menten KM, Ivanov VD, Valenti E, Trombley C, Chen C-HR, Davies B. 2015. MASSIVE STARS IN THE W33 GIANT MOLECULAR COMPLEX ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 805 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bergemann M, Kudritzki R-P, Gazak Z, Davies B, Plez B. 2015. RED SUPERGIANT STARS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES. III. NLTE EFFECTS IN J-BAND MAGNESIUM LINES ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 804 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Patrick LR, Evans CJ, Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Gazak JZ, Bergemann M, Plez B, Ferguson AMN. 2015. RED SUPERGIANT STARS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES: KMOS OBSERVATIONS IN NGC 6822 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 803 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
De La Fuente D, Najarro F, Trombley C, Davies B, Figer DF. 2015. First detections of FS Canis Majoris stars in clusters: Evolutionary state as constrained by coeval massive stars Astronomy and Astrophysics, 575 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cabrera-Ziri I, Bastian N, Longmore SN, Brogan C, Hollyhead K, Larsen SS, Whitmore B, Johnson K, Chandar R, Henshaw JD, Davies B, Hibbard JE. 2015. Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters - V. ALMA observations of clusters in the Antennae MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 448 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Bastian N, Adamo A, Schirmer M, Hollyhead K, Beletsky Y, Carraro G, Davies B, Gieles M, Silva-Villa E. 2014. The effect of spatial resolution on optical and near-IR studies of stellar clusters: implications for the origin of the red excess Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 :3829-3836 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Messineo M, Zhu Q, Ivanov VD, Figer DF, Davies B, Menten K, Kudritzki RP, Chen C-HR. 2014. Near-infrared spectroscopy of candidate red supergiant stars in clusters ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 571 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Messineo M, Menten KM, Figer DF, Davies B, Clark JS, Ivanov VD, Kudritzki R-P, Rich RM, MacKenty JW, Trombley C. 2014. Massive stars in the giant molecular cloud G23.3-0.3 and W41 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 569 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Cabrera-Ziri I, Bastian N, Davies B, Magris G, Bruzual G, Schweizer F. 2014. Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters - II. A single stellar population young massive cluster in NGC 34 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 441 :2754-2759 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Gazak JZ, Davies B, Kudritzki R, Bergemann M, Plez B. 2014. Quantitative Spectroscopic J-Band Study of Red Supergiants in Perseus Ob-1 Astrophysical Journal, 788 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gazak JZ, Davies B, Bastian N, Kudritzki R, Bergemann M, Plez B, Evans C, Patrick L, Bresolin F, Schinnerer E. 2014. A New Method for Measuring Metallicities of Young Super Star Clusters Astrophysical Journal, 787 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Evans CJ, Puech M, Barbuy B, Bonifacio P, Cuby J-G, Guenther E, Hammer F, Jagoure P, Kaper L, Morris SL, Afonso J, Amram P, Ausse H, Basden A, Bastian N, Battaglia G, Biller B, Bouche N, Caffau E, Charlot S, Clenet Y, Combes F, Conselice C, Contini T, Dalton G, Davies B, Disseau K, Dunlop J, Fiore F, Flores H, Fuco T, Gadotti D, Gallazzi A, Giallongo E, Goncalves T, Gratadour D, Hill V, Huertas-Company M, Ibata R, Larsen S, Le Fevre O, Lemasle B, Maraston C, Mei S, Mellier Y, Ostlin G, Paumard T, Pe R, Pentericci L, Petitjean P, Roth M, Rouan D, Schaerer D, Telles E, Trager S, Welikala N, Zibetti S, Ziegler B. 2014. Science Case and Requirements for the MOSAIC Concept for a Multi-Object Spectrograph for the European Extremely Large Telescope Ramsay SK, McLean IS, Takami H. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY V, 9147 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bastian N, Cabrera-Ziri I, Davies B, Larsen SS. 2013. Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters - I. A lack of ongoing star formation within young clusters MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 436 :2852-2863 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Hindson L, Thompson MA, Urquhart JS, Faimali A, Johnston-Hollitt M, Clark JS, Davies B. 2013. The G305 star-forming complex: radio continuum and molecular line observations MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 435 :2003-2022 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Murakawa K, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Davies B, Wheelwright HE, Hoare MG, Ilee JD. 2013. Near-infrared integral field spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 436 :511-525 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Kudritzki RP, Plez B, Bergemann M, Lançon A, Trager S, Gazak Z, Evans C, Chiavassa A. 2013. The temperatures of red supergiants: How cool are the coolest massive stars? EAS Publications Series, 60 :69-76 DOI Publisher Url
Davies B, Kudritzki RP, Plez B, Bergemann M, Gazak Z, Evans C. 2013. Red supergiants as cosmic abundance probes EAS Publications Series, 60 :287-292 DOI Publisher Url
Lumsden SL, Hoare MG, Urquhart JS, Oudmaijer RD, Davies B, Mottram JC, Cooper HDB, Moore TJT. 2013. The red MSX source survey: The massive young stellar population of our galaxy Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 208 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Plez B, Trager S, Lancon A, Gazak Z, Bergemann M, Evans C, Chiavassa A. 2013. THE TEMPERATURES OF RED SUPERGIANTS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 767 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cooper HDB, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Hoare MG, Clarke AJ, Urquhart JS, Mottram JC, Moore TJT, Davies B. 2013. The RMS survey: Near-IR spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 430 :1125-1157 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Gazak JZ, Bastian N, Kudritzki RP, Adamo A, Davies B, Plez B, Urbaneja MA. 2013. Age dating stellar populations in the near infrared: An absolute age indicator from the presence/absence of red supergiants Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 430 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bergemann M, Kudritzki R-P, Wuerl M, Plez B, Davies B, Gazak Z. 2013. RED SUPERGIANT STARS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES. II. NLTE EFFECTS IN J-BAND SILICON LINES ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 764 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Bergemann M, Kudritzki RP, Davies B, Plez B, Gazak Z, Chiavassa A. 2013. <3D> NLTE line formation in the atmospheres of red supergiants EAS Publications Series, 60 :103-109 DOI Publisher Url
Murakawa K, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Davies B, Hoare MG. 2012. NIR integral field spectroscopy of high mass young stellar objects Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 8 :53 DOI Publisher Url
Bergemann M, Kudritzki R-P, Plez B, Davies B, Lind K, Gazak Z. 2012. RED SUPERGIANT STARS AS COSMIC ABUNDANCE PROBES: NLTE EFFECTS IN J-BAND IRON AND TITANIUM LINES ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 751 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Hindson L, Thompson MA, Urquhart JS, Faimali A, Clark JS, Davies B. 2012. The G305 star-forming complex: a wide-area radio survey of ultracompact H ii regions MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 421 :3418-3430 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, de la Fuente D, Najarro F, Hinton JA, Trombley C, Figer DF, Puga E. 2012. A newly discovered young massive star cluster at the far end of the Galactic Bar MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 419 :1860-1870 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Clark JS, Trombley C, Figer DF, Najarro F, Crowther PA, Kudritzki R-P, Thompson M, Urquhart JS, Hindson L. 2012. The G305 star-forming complex: the central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 419 :1871-1886 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ, Barbuy B, Bonifacio P, Chemla F, Cuby J-G, Dalton GB, Davies B, Disseau K, Dohlen K, Flores H, Gendron E, Guinouard I, Hammer F, Hastings P, Horville D, Jagourel P, Kaper L, Laporte P, Lee D, Morris SL, Morris T, Myers R, Navarro R, Parr-Burman P, Petitjean P, Puech M, Rollinde E, Rousset G, Schnetler H, Welikala N, Wells M, Yang Y. 2012. Multi-Object Spectroscopy with the European ELT: Scientific synergies between EAGLE & EVE McLean IS, Ramsay SK, Takami H. GROUND-BASED AND AIRBORNE INSTRUMENTATION FOR ASTRONOMY IV, 8446 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Messineo M, Davies B, Figer DF, Trombley C, Valenti E, Najarro F, MacKenty J, Menten K, Rich RM, Kudritzki RP, Clark S, Ivanov V. 2012. Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way: The Cl1813-178 and GLIMPSE 9 clusters Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, :185-190 DOI
Urquhart JS, Morgan LK, Figura CC, Moore TJT, Lumsden SL, Hoare MG, Oudmaijer RD, Mottram JC, Davies B, Dunham MK. 2011. The Red MSX Source survey: Ammonia and water maser analysis of massive star-forming regions Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 418 :1689-1706 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Hoare MG, Lumsden SL, Hosokawa T, Oudmaijer RD, Urquhart JS, Mottram JC, Stead J. 2011. The Red MSX Source survey: critical tests of accretion models for the formation of massive stars MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 416 :972-990 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Messineo M, Davies B, Figer DF, Kudritzki RP, Valenti E, Trombley C, Najarro F, Rich RM. 2011. MASSIVE STARS IN THE Cl 1813-178 CLUSTER: AN EPISODE OF MASSIVE STAR FORMATION IN THE W33 COMPLEX ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 733 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Mottram JC, Hoare MG, Davies B, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Urquhart J, Moore TJT, Cooper HDB, Stead JJ. 2011. The RMS survey: The luminosity functions and timescales of massive young stellar objects and compact H II regions Astrophysical Journal Letters, 730 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Evans CJ, Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Puech M, Yang Y, Cuby J-G, Figer DF, Lehnert MD, Morris SL, Rousset G. 2011. Stellar metallicities beyond the Local Group: the potential of J-band spectroscopy with extremely large telescopes ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 527 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Urquhart JS, Moore TJT, Hoare MG, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Rathborne JM, Mottram JC, Davies B, Stead JJ. 2011. The Red MSX Source survey: distribution and properties of a sample of massive young stars MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 410 :1237-1250 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Bastian N, Gieles M, Seth AC, Mengel S, Konstantopoulos IS. 2011. GLIMPSE-CO1: The most massive intermediate-age stellar cluster in the Galaxy Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 411 :1386-1394 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Hindson L, Thompson MA, Urquhart JS, Clark JS, Davies B. 2010. The G305 star-forming complex: wide-area molecular mapping of NH3 and H2O masers MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 408 :1438-1451 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Kudritzki R-P, Figer DF. 2010. The potential of red supergiants as extragalactic abundance probes at low spectral resolution MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 407 :1203-1211 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Lumsden SL, Hoare MG, Oudmaijer RD, de Wit W-J. 2010. The circumstellar disc, envelope and bipolar outflow of the massive young stellar object W33A MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 402 :1504-1515 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Messineo M, Figer DF, Davies B, Kudritzki RP, Rich RM, MacKenty J, Trombley C. 2010. HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE/NEAR-INFRARED CAMERA AND MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROMETER OBSERVATIONS OF THE GLIMPSE9 STELLAR CLUSTER ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 708 :1241-1253 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Mottram JC, Hoare MG, Urquhart JS, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Robitaille TP, Moore TJT, Davies B, Stead J. 2010. The Red MSX Source survey: The bolometric fluxes and luminosity distributions of young massive stars Astronomy and Astrophysics, 525 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B. 2010. Young Massive Clusters as Probes of Stellar Evolution Leitherer C, Bennett PD, Morris PW, VanLoon JT. HOT AND COOL: BRIDGING GAPS IN MASSIVE-STAR EVOLUTION, 425 :37-44 Author Url
Davies B, Figer DF, Kudritzki R-P, Trombley C, Kouveliotou C, Wachter S. 2009. THE PROGENITOR MASS OF THE MAGNETAR SGR1900+14 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 707 :844-851 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Urquhart JS, Hoare MG, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Moore TJT, Brook PR, Mottram JC, Davies B, Stead JJ. 2009. The RMS survey H2O masers towards a sample of southern hemisphere massive YSO candidates and ultra compact HII regions ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 507 :795-802 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Vink JS, Davies B, Harries TJ, Oudmaijer RD, Walborn NR. 2009. On the presence and absence of disks around O-type stars ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 505 :743-753 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Zhu Q, Davies B, Figer DF, Trombley C. 2009. A NEAR-INFRARED STUDY OF THE STELLAR CLUSTER: [DBS2003] 45 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 702 :929-939 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Clark JS, Davies B, Najarro F, MacKenty J, Crowther PA, Messineo M, Thompson MA. 2009. The P Cygni supergiant [OMN2000] LS1-implications for the star formation history of W51 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 504 :429-435 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Urquhart JS, Hoare MG, Purcell CR, Lumsden SL, Oudmaijer RD, Moore TJT, Busfield AL, Mottram JC, Davies B. 2009. The RMS survey 6 cm continuum VLA observations towards candidate massive YSOs in the northern hemisphere ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 501 :539-551 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Messineo M, Davies B, Ivanov VD, Figer DF, Schuller F, Habing HJ, Menten KM, Petr-Gotzens MG. 2009. NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRA OF GALACTIC STELLAR CLUSTERS DETECTED ON SPITZER/GLIMPSE IMAGES ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 697 :701-712 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Origlia L, Kudritzki R-P, Figer DF, Rich RM, Najarro F, Negueruela I, Clark JS. 2009. CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE PATTERNS IN THE INNER GALAXY: THE SCUTUM RED SUPERGIANT CLUSTERS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 696 :2014-2025 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Clark JS, Negueruela I, Davies B, Larionov VM, Ritchie BW, Figer DF, Messineo M, Crowther PA, Arkharov AA. 2009. A third red supergiant rich cluster in the Scutum-Crux arm ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 498 :109-114 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Origlia L, Kudritzki R-P, Figer DF, Rich RM, Najarro F. 2009. THE CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES IN THE GALACTIC CENTER FROM THE ATMOSPHERES OF RED SUPERGIANTS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 694 :46-55 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Messineo M, Figer DF, Davies B, Rich RM, Valenti E, Kudritzki RP. 2008. Discovery of a young massive stellar cluster near hess J1813-178 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 683 :L155-L158 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Figer DF, Law CJ, Kudritzki R-P, Najarro F, Herrero A, MacKenty JW. 2008. The cool supergiant population of the massive young star cluster RSGC1 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 676 :1016-1028 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Patel M, Oudmaijer RD, Vink JS, Bjorkman JE, Davies B, Groenewegen MAT, Miroshnichenko AS, Mottram JC. 2008. Spectropolarimetry of the massive post-red supergiants IRC+10420 and HD 179821 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 385 :967-978 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Oudmaijer RD, Sahu KC. 2007. Integral-field spectroscopy of the post-red supergiant IRC+10420: Evidence for an axisymmetric wind ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 671 :2059-2067 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Figer DF, Kudritzki R-P, MacKenty J, Najarro F, Herrero A. 2007. A massive cluster of red supergiants at the base of the Scutum-Crux arm ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 671 :781-801 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Vink JS, Oudmaijer RD. 2007. Modelling the clumping-induced polarimetric variability of hot star winds ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 469 :1045-1056 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Patel M, Oudmaijer RD, Vink JS, Mottram JC, Davies B. 2006. A polarimetric study of the B[e] star HD 45677 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 373 :1641-1647 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Davies B, Vink JS, Oudmaijer RD. 2006. Using polarization to study the winds of massive stars Author Url
Davies B, Oudmaijer RD, Vink JS. 2006. The clumpiness of LBV winds Kraus M, Miroshnnichenko AS. STARS WITH THE B[E] PHENOMENON, PROCEEDINGS, 355 :173-+ Author Url
Davies B, Oudmaijer RD, Vink JS. 2005. Asphericity and clumpiness in the winds of Luminous Blue Variables ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, 439 :1107-1125 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Editorial/letter to the editor
Chiavassa A, Kudritzki R, Davies B, Freytag B, De Mink SE. 2022. Probing red supergiant dynamics through photo-center displacements measured by Gaia Astronomy and Astrophysics, 661 :L1-L1 DOI Publisher Url
Conference publication
Patrick LR, Evans CJ, Davies B, Kudritzki RP. 2018. Supergiant Stars as Abundance Probes Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 14 :266-267 DOI Publisher Url
Messineo M, Clark JS, Figer DF, Menten KM, Kudritzki R-P, Najarro F, Rich RM, Ivanov VD, Valenti E, Trombley C, Chen C-HR, Davies B, MacKenty JW. 2017. Evolved massive stars in W33 and in GMC G23.3-0.3 Charbonnel C, Nota A. FORMATION, EVOLUTION, AND SURVIVAL OF MASSIVE STAR CLUSTERS, 316th Symposium of the International-Astronomical-Union (IAU) 12 :167-168 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
de la Fuente D, Najarro F, Trombley C, Davies B, Figer DF. 2014. The nature of FS CMa stars as revealed by host young clusters Proceedings of the 11th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society - Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VIII, SEA 2014, :459-464
de la Fuente D, Najarro F, Davies B, Figer DF. 2012. Discovery and spectroscopic study of the massive galactic cluster mercer 81 Proceedings of the 10th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society - Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, SEA 2012, :534-538
Davies B. 2012. Young Star Clusters: Keys to Understanding Massive Stars Drissen L, Robert C, StLouis N, Moffat AFJ. FOUR DECADES OF RESEARCH ON MASSIVE STARS, Meeting on 4 Decades of Research on Massive Stars in Honor of Anthony FJ Moffat 465 :383-391 Author Url
Messineo M, Davies B, Figer DF, Trombley C, Valenti E, Najarro F, MacKenty J, Menten K, Rich RM, Kudritzki RP, Clark S, Ivanov V. 2012. Young Massive Stellar Clusters in the Milky Way: the Cl1813-178 and GLIMPSE 9 Clusters Moitinho A, Alves J. STAR CLUSTERS IN THE ERA OF LARGE SURVEYS, Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM)/18th Annual Meeting of the European-Astronomical-Society/20th Annual Portuguese Meeting of Astronomy and Astrophysics/Symposium 7 - Square Kilometre Array (SKA) :185-190 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Oudmaijer RD, Davies B, Dawson F, Lockett O, Mottram JC, Patel M, Groenewegen MAT. 2006. The post-red supergiant IRC+10420 Kraus M, Miroshnnichenko AS. STARS WITH THE B[E] PHENOMENON, PROCEEDINGS, Meeting on Stars with the B (e) Phenomenon 355 :181-+ Author Url
Oudmaijer RD, Davies B, Vink JS, Drew JE. 2005. Spectropolarimetry of young and evolved stars Adamson A, Aspin C, Davis CJ, Fujiyoshi T. Astronomical Polarimetry: Current Status and Future Directions, Meeting on Astronomical Polarimetry - Current Status and Future Directions 343 :227-231 Author Url
Conference organisation:
MIAPP - The Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Chair, SOC. 2016
Stellar Behemoths - Red Supergiants Across the Local Universe (Focus Meeting of the IAU General Assembly, Hawaii), Chair, SOC. 2015
Frontiers of Stellar Spectroscopy - MPIA Heidelberg, Co-chair, SOC. 2015
Massive stars and the diversity of supernovae, Chair. 2014
External committees:
Ernest Rutherford Fellowships Committee, STFC, Panel member. 2015
Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee, Space Telescope Science Institute, member. 2014
ING Telescope Allocation Group, Issac Newton Group of Telescopes, Panel member. 2011
External PGR examinations performed:
University of Manchester, MPhil, AGB stars. 2015
University of Leeds, MPhil. 2014
External PGR Supervision - completed students:
Rochester Institute of Technology, PhD. 2013
Research Grants Awarded:
STFC, Using Massive Stars to Chart the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies, Grant value (£): 100000, Duration of research project: 2 years (+). 2013
Fellowships:
RAS research fellowship, Royal Astronomical Society. 2010