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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Yvonne Elsworth is a researcher affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their primary area of research is within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, and related subfields.

Their body of work spans main topics such as:

  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astro and Planetary Science

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • B. Mosser
  • W. J. Chaplin
  • A. Miglio
  • R. A. García
  • S. Mathur

Yvonne Elsworth has contributed to multiple scientific journals, especially publishing frequently in:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Astronomical Journal

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Yvonne Elsworth include:

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data, 2022, Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • Age dating of an early Milky Way merger via asteroseismology of the naked-eye star ν Indi, 2020, Nature Astronomy
  • Detection and Characterization of Oscillating Red Giants: First Results from the TESS Satellite, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Prospects for Galactic and stellar astrophysics with asteroseismology of giant stars in the TESS continuous viewing zones and beyond, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Yvonne Elsworth's research contributions include work on galactic structure and stellar astrophysics, leveraging asteroseismology and astronomical survey data. This focus is reflected in their involvement in large collaborations producing data releases such as those from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys and the TESS satellite missions.

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Yvonne Elsworth was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III

    Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

  • The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

    Steven R. Majewski;Ricardo P. Schiavon;Peter M. Frinchaboy;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Fourth Data Release

    Andrea Kunder;Georges Kordopatis;Matthias Steinmetz;Tomaž Zwitter

  • The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

    Steven R. Majewski;Ricardo P. Schiavon;Peter M. Frinchaboy;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Fifth Data Release

    Andrea Kunder;Georges Kordopatis;Matthias Steinmetz;Tomaz Zwitter

  • Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets

    Geoffrey W. Marcy;Howard Isaacson;Andrew W. Howard;Jason F. Rowe

  • Gravity modes as a way to distinguish between hydrogen- and helium-burning red giant stars

    Timothy R. Bedding;Benoit Mosser;Daniel Huber;Josefina Montalbán

  • The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andrés Almeida;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

  • Kepler Asteroseismology Program: Introduction and First Results

    Ronald L. Gilliland;T. M. Brown;J. Christensen-Dalsgaard;H. Kjeldsen

  • Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition From Gaseous to Rocky Planets

    Geoffrey W. Marcy;Howard Isaacson;Andrew W. Howard;Jason F. Rowe

  • The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

    Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

  • Fast core rotation in red-giant stars as revealed by gravity-dominated mixed modes

    Paul P.G.Beck;Josefina Montalban;Thomas Kallinger;Joris De Ridder

  • Kepler Asteroseismology Program: Introduction and First Results

    Ronald L. Gilliland;Timothy M. Brown;Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard;Hans Kjeldsen

  • Asteroseismic fundamental properties of solar-type stars observed by the NASA Kepler Mission

    W. J. Chaplin;S. Basu;D. Huber;A Serenelli

  • Testing Scaling Relations for Solar-Like Oscillations from the Main Sequence to Red Giants using Kepler Data

    D. Huber;T. R. Bedding;D. Stello;S. Hekker

  • Asteroseismology of old open clusters with Kepler: direct estimate of the integrated RGB mass loss in NGC6791 and NGC6819

    A. Miglio;K. Brogaard;D. Stello;W. J. Chaplin

  • Spin down of the core rotation in red giants

    B. Mosser;M.J. Goupil;K. Belkacem;J.P. Marques

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Chaplin
William J. Chaplin University of Birmingham
Rafael A. García
Rafael A. García University of Paris-Saclay
Daniel Huber
Daniel Huber University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dennis Stello
Dennis Stello University of New South Wales
Saskia Hekker
Saskia Hekker Heidelberg University
Timothy R. Bedding
Timothy R. Bedding University of Sydney
Sarbani Basu
Sarbani Basu Yale University
Andrea Miglio
Andrea Miglio University of Bologna
Hans Kjeldsen
Hans Kjeldsen Aarhus University

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