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    Turlough Downes

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    Centre For Astrophysics & Relativity (Cfar)



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    Mathematical Sciences


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    Book

    Year Publication
    2009 (2009) Jets From Young Stars V: High Performance Computing and Applications. : Springer-Verlag. [DOI]
    2010 NASA Astrophysics Data System (2010) Jets from Young Stars V.

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2009 Jones, A.C. Shadmehri, M. Downes, T.P. (2009) 'Multifluid Simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in a Weakly Ionised Plasma' In: Kanaris Tsinganos, Tom Ray and Matthias Stute(Eds.). Protostellar Jets in Context. Berlin Heidelberg : Springer. [DOI]
    2009 Downes, T.P. (2009) 'Large-Scale Jet Simulations' In: Gracia, J. De Colle, F. Downes, T.P. (Eds.). Jets From Young Stars V: High Performance Computing and Applications, Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 791. Berlin Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [DOI]
    2009 Downes, T.P. (2009) 'Driving Mechanisms for Molecular Outflows' In: Kanaris Tsinganos, Tom Ray and Matthias Stute(Eds.). Protostellar Jets in Context. Berlin Heidelberg : Springer. [DOI]
    1996 NASA Astrophysics Data System (1996) 'Numerical Simulations of H2 Emission from Stellar Jets' In: Disks and Outflows Around Young Stars.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2023 Downes, Turlough P.;Hartigan, Patrick;Isella, Andrea (2023) 'Length-scales and dynamics of Carina's Western wall'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 519 (4):5427-5438. [DOI]
    2022 Hartigan, Patrick;Hummel, Maxwell;Isella, Andrea;Downes, Turlough (2022) 'ALMA Data Cubes and Continuum Maps of the Irradiated Western Wall in Carina'. Astronomical Journal, 164 (6). [DOI]
    2021 Woods, T.E.;Willott, C.J.;Regan, J.A.;Wise, J.H.;Downes, T.P.;Norman, M.L.;O’Shea, B.W. (2021) 'Some First Stars Were Red: Detecting Signatures of Massive Population III Formation through Long-term Stochastic Color Variations'. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 920 . [Link] [DOI]
    2021 Rodgers-Lee, D.; Taylor, A. M.; Vidotto, A. A.; Downes, T. P (2021) 'Stellar versus Galactic: The intensity of cosmic rays at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets around Sun-like stars'. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, . [DOI]
    2020 Rodgers-Lee, D;Taylor, AM;Downes, TP;Ray, TP (2020) 'Stellar cosmic rays as an important source of ionization in protoplanetary discs: a disc mass-dependent process'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 491 :4742-4751. [DOI]
    2020 Regan, John A.; Wise, John H.; Woods, Tyrone E.; Downes, Turlough P.; O'Shea, Brian W.; Norman, Michael L. (2020) 'The Formation of Very Massive Stars in Early Galaxies and Implications for Intermediate Mass Black Holes'. 3 (1). [DOI]
    2020 Rodgers-Lee, D.; Vidotto, A. A.; Taylor, A. M.; Rimmer, P. B.; Downes, T. P. (2020) 'The Galactic cosmic ray intensity at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets'. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 499 (2):2124-2137. [DOI]
    2020 Hartigan, P;Downes, T;Isella, A (2020) 'A JWST Preview: Adaptive-optics Images of H-2, Br-gamma, and K-continuum in Carina's Western Wall'. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 902 . [DOI]
    2019 Schworer, D;Walkden, NR;Leggate, H;Dudson, BD;Militello, F;Downes, T;Turner, MM (2019) 'Influence of plasma background on 3D scrape-off layer filaments'. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 61 . [DOI]
    2019 Regan, JA;Downes, TP;Volonteri, M;Beckmann, R;Lupi, A;Trebitsch, M;Dubois, Y (2019) 'Super-Eddington accretion and feedback from the first massive seed black holes'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 486 :3892-3906. [DOI]
    2019 Wise, JH;Regan, JA;O'Shea, BW;Norman, ML;Downes, TP;Xu, H (2019) 'Formation of massive black holes in rapidly growing pre-galactic gas clouds'. Nature, 566 . [DOI]
    2018 Ballester, JL;Alexeev, I;Collados, M;Downes, T;Pfaff, RF;Gilbert, H;Khodachenko, M;Khomenko, E;Shaikhislamov, IF;Soler, R;Vazquez-Semadeni, E;Zaqarashvili, T (2018) 'Partially Ionized Plasmas in Astrophysics'. Space Science Reviews, 214 (2). [DOI]
    2018 Regan, JA;Downes, TP (2018) 'Fragmentation inside atomic cooling haloes exposed to Lyman-Werner radiation'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 475 :4636-4647. [DOI]
    2018 Krapp, L;Gressel, O;Benitez-Llambay, P;Downes, TP;Mohandas, G;Pessah, ME (2018) 'Dust Segregation in Hall-dominated Turbulent Protoplanetary Disks'. Astrophysical Journal, 865 . [DOI]
    2018 Regan J.;Downes T. (2018) 'Rise of the first supermassive stars'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 478 (4):5037-5049. [DOI]
    2018 Smith B.;Regan J.;Downes T.;Norman M.;O'Shea B.;Wise J. (2018) 'The growth of black holes from Population III remnants in the Renaissance simulations'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 480 (3):3762-3773. [DOI]
    2018 Gonzalez-Morales, PA;Khomenko, E;Downes, TP;de Vicente, A (2018) 'MHDSTS: a new explicit numerical scheme for simulations of partially ionised solar plasma'. Astronomy &Amp; Astrophysics, 615 . [DOI]
    2017 Schworer, D;Walkden, NR;Leggate, H;Dudson, BD;Militello, F;Downes, T;Turner, MM (2017) 'Influence of plasma background including neutrals on scrape-off layer filaments using 3D simulations'. Nuclear Materials And Energy, 12 :825-830. [DOI]
    2017 Agarwal, Bhaskar and Regan, John and Klessen, Ralf S and Downes, Turlough P and Zackrisson, Erik (2017) 'An analytic resolution to the competition between Lyman-Werner radiation and metal winds in direct collapse black hole hosts'. .
    2017 Rodgers-Lee, D;Taylor, AM;Ray, TP;Downes, TP (2017) 'The ionizing effect of low-energy cosmic rays from a class II object on its protoplanetary disc'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 472 :26-38. [DOI]
    2017 Agarwal, B;Regan, J;Klessen, RS;Downes, TP;Zackrisson, E (2017) 'An analytic resolution to the competition between Lyman-Werner radiation and metal winds in direct collapse black hole hosts'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 470 :4034-4038. [DOI]
    2016 Rodgers-Lee, D.;Ray, T.P.;Downes, T.P. (2016) 'Global multifluid simulations of the magnetorotational instability in radially stratified protoplanetary discs'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 463 . [Link] [DOI]
    2014 O'Keeffe W.;Downes T. (2014) 'Multifluid simulations of the magnetorotational instability in protostellar discs'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 441 (1):571-581. [DOI]
    2014 Downes T.;Drury L. (2014) 'Cosmic ray pressure driven magnetic field amplification: Dimensional, radiative and field orientation effects'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 444 (1):365-375. [DOI]
    2012 Delaney S. Dempsey P. Duffy P. Downes T.P. (2012) 'A new time-dependent finite-difference method for relativistic shock acceleration'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 420 :3360-3367. [DOI]
    2012 Downes T. (2012) 'Driven multifluid magnetohydrodynamic molecular cloud turbulence'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 425 (3):2277-2286. [DOI]
    2012 Drury L.;Downes T. (2012) 'Turbulent magnetic field amplification driven by cosmic ray pressure gradients'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 427 (3):2308-2313. [DOI]
    2012 Jones A.;Downes T. (2012) 'The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in weakly ionized plasmas - II. Multifluid effects in molecular clouds'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 420 (1):817-828. [DOI]
    2011 Downes T.;O'Sullivan S. (2011) 'Multifluid magnetohydrodynamic turbulent decay'. Astrophysical Journal, 730 (1). [DOI]
    2011 Jones A.;Downes T. (2011) 'The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in weakly ionized plasmas: Ambipolar-dominated and Hall-dominated flows'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 418 (1):390-400. [DOI]
    2009 Downes T. (2009) 'Driving mechanisms for molecular outflows'. Astrophysics And Space Science Proceedings, (9783642005756):395-404. [DOI]
    2009 Downes, T.P. O'Sullivan, S. (2009) 'Non-ideal MHD turbulent decay in molecular clouds'. Astrophysical Journal, 701 :1258-1268. [DOI]
    2009 Cabrit, S. Bocchi, M. Camenzind, M. Ciardi, A. de Colle, F. Downes, T. Ferreira, J. Frank, A. Gracia, J. Lebedev, S. Marrochino, A. Massaglia, S. Matsakos, T. O'Sullivan, J. Stehlé, C. Stute, M. Suzuki-Vidal, F. Tesileanu, O. Tsinganos, K. Zanni, C. (2009) 'Dynamics of magnetized YSO jets: Examples of results from the JETSET network'. Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica, 36 :171-178.
    2009 Mullen, M;Brennan, C;Downes, T (2009) 'A Hybridized Forward Backward Method Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Scattering Problems'. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 57 :1846-1850. [DOI]
    2009 Mullen, M. Brennan, C. Downes, T.P. (2009) 'A Hybridized Forward Backward Method Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Scattering Problems'. 57 :1846-1850. [DOI]
    2008 Ferrand, G;Downes, T;Marcowith, A (2008) 'MARCOS, a numerical tool for the simulation of multiple time-dependent non-linear diffusive shock acceleration'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 383 :41-56. [DOI]
    2008 Turlough Downes (2008) 'Simulations of time-dependent non-linear multiple diffusive shock acceleration'. International Cosmic Ray Conference, .
    2008 Shadmehri, M. Downes, T.P. (2008) 'The role of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in dusty and partially ionized outflows'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 387 :1318-1322. [DOI]
    2007 Shadmehri, M. Downes, T.P. (2007) 'Kelvin Helmholtz instability in a weakly ionized layer'. Astrophysics and Space Science, 312 :79-84. [DOI]
    2007 Downes T.;Cabrit S. (2007) 'Jet-driven molecular outflows from class 0 sources: Younger and stronger than they seem?'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 471 (3):873-884. [DOI]
    2007 O'Sullivan, S.;Downes, T.P. (2007) 'A three-dimensional numerical method for modelling weakly ionized plasmas'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 376 . [Link] [DOI]
    2007 Downes, T.P., Cabrit, S. (2007) 'Jet-driven molecular outflows from Class 0 sources: younger and stronger than they seem?'. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES (1980-2000), 471 :873-884.
    2006 O'Sullivan, S., Downes, T.P. (2006) 'Numerical modeling of weakly ionized plasmas'. 359 .
    2006 O'Sullivan, S.;Downes, T.P. (2006) 'An explicit scheme for multifluid magnetohydrodynamics'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 366 . [Link] [DOI]
    2005 Keegan, R.;Downes, T.P. (2005) 'Long-duration simulations of the evolution of Jet-driven molecular outflows'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 437 . [Link] [DOI]
    2005 Keegan, R., Downes, T.P. (2005) 'Long-duration simulations of the evolution of jet-driven molecular outflows'. Astronomy &Amp; Astrophysics, 437 :517-524.
    2004 Coffey, D. Downes, T.P. Ray, T.P. (2004) 'The evolution and simulation of the XZ Tauri outburst'. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES (1980-2000), 419 :593-598.
    2004 Coffey, D.;Downes, T.P.;Ray, T.P. (2004) 'The evolution and simulation of the outburst from XZ tauri - A possible EXor?'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 419 . [Link] [DOI]
    2004 Van Der Swaluw, E.;Downes, T.P.;Keegan, R. (2004) 'An evolutionary model for pulsar-driven supernova remnants a hydrodynamical model'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 420 . [Link] [DOI]
    2004 van der Swaluw, E;Downes, TP (2004) 'A key to pulsar wind bubble morphologies: Hydrodynamical simulations'. YOUNG NEUTRON STARS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS, (218):175-178.
    2004 van der Swaluw, E. Downes, T.P. Keegan, R. (2004) 'An evolutionary model for pulsar-driven supernova remnants - a hydrodynamical model'. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES (1980-2000), 420 :937-944.
    2003 Van Der Swaluw, E.;Achterberg, A.;Gallant, Y.A.;Downes, T.P.;Keppens, R. (2003) 'Interaction of high-velocity pulsars with supernova remnant shells'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 397 . [Link] [DOI]
    2003 Downes, T.P., Cabrit, S. (2003) 'The mass-velocity and intensity-velocity relations in jet-driven molecular outflows'. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES (1980-2000), 403 :135-140.
    2003 van der Swaluw, E., Achterberg, A., Gallant, Y.A., Downes, T.P., Keppens, R. (2003) 'Interaction of high-velocity pulsars with supernova remnant shells'. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES (1980-2000), 397 :913-920.
    2003 Downes, T.P.;Cabrit, S. (2003) 'The mass-velocity and intensity-velocity relations in jet-driven molecular outflows'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 403 . [Link] [DOI]
    2002 Downes, T.P.;Duffy, P.;Komissarov, S.S. (2002) 'Relativistic blast waves and synchrotron emission'. Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society, 332 . [Link] [DOI]
    2001 Turlough Downes (2001) 'Particle acceleration and synchrotron emission from relativistic blastwaves'. International Cosmic Ray Conference, .
    1999 NASA Astrophysics Data System (1999) 'On the transfer of momentum from stellar jets to molecular outflows'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, .
    1999 Turlough Downes (1999) 'On the transfer of momentum from stellar jets to molecular outflows'. ?p, .
    1999 Downes, T.P., Ray, T.P. (1999) 'On the transfer of momentum from stellar jets to molecular outflows'. ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES (1980-2000), 345 :977-985.
    1999 Downes, T.P.;Ray, T.P. (1999) 'On the transfer of momentum from stellar jets to molecular outflows'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 345 . [Link]
    1998 Turlough Downes (1998) 'Numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in radiatively cooled jets'. ?p, .
    1998 NASA Astrophysics Data System (1998) 'Numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in radiatively cooled jets'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, .
    1998 Downes, T.P.;Ray, T.P. (1998) 'Numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in radiatively cooled jets'. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 331 . [Link]
    1997 NASA Astrophysics Data System (1997) 'A numerical simulation of the counter-jet in the HH46/47 system'. Irish Astronomical Journal, .
    1997 Turlough Downes (1997) 'A numerical simulation of the counter-jet in the HH46/47 system'. Irish Astronomical Journal, .
    1996 Downes, T.P., Ray, T.P. (1996) 'Numerical Simulations of H_2 Emission in Jets from Young Stellar Objects'. Astrophysical Letters and Communications, 34 :309-314.
    1996 Downes, T.P. (1996) 'Numerical simulations of H2 emission in jets from young stellar objects'. Astrophysical Letters and Communications, 34 . [Link]
    1996 NASA Astrophysics Data System (1996) 'Numerical Simulations of H2 Emission in Jets from Young Stellar Objects'. Astrophysical Letters and Communications, .
    1996 Turlough Downes (1996) 'Numerical Simulations of H$_2$ Emission in Jets from Young Stellar Objects'. Astrophysical Letters and Communications, .
    1996 Downes, TP (1996) 'Numerical simulations of H-2 emission in jets from young stellar objects'. ASTROPHYSICAL LETTERS & COMMUNICATIONS, 34 (1-6):309-314.

    Other Journal

    Year Publication
    2012 Downes, T. P. (2012) 'Multifluid Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Weakly Ionised Astrophysical Plasmas' :15-21.
    2010 Downes, T. P.; O'Sullivan, S. (2010) 'Non-ideal MHD Turbulent Decay in Molecular Clouds' :3-7.
    2009 Cabrit, S.; Bocchi, M.; Camenzind, M.; Ciardi, A.; de Colle, F.; Downes, T.; Ferreira, J.; Frank, A.; Gracia, J.; Lebedev, S.; Marrochino, A.; Massaglia, S.; Matsakos, T.; O'Sullivan, J.; Stehlé, C.; Stute, M.; Suzuki-Vidal, F.; Tesileanu, O.; Tsinganos, K.; Zanni, C. (2009) 'Dynamics of magnetized YSO jets: Examples of results from the JETSET network' 36 :171-178.
    2008 Ferrand, G. Downes, T.P. Marcowith, A. (2008) 'Simulations of time-dependent non-linear multiple diffusive shock acceleration' :267-270.
    2008 Downes, T.P. O'Sullivan, S. (2008) 'Implications of the Hall Effect for Turbulent Molecular Clouds' 385 .
    2008 O'Sullivan, S. Downes, T.P. (2008) 'Numerical Modeling of Weakly Ionized Plasmas' 385 .
    2006 O'Sullivan, S. Downes, T.P. (2006) 'Numerical Modeling of Weakly Ionized Plasmas' .
    2005 O'Sullivan, S. Downes, T.P. (2005) 'Explicit methods for multifluid MHD' 801 :393-394. [DOI]
    2005 Corkery, S., Downes, T. P. (2005) 'The Stability of Rotating Jets: Numerical Simulations' .
    2005 O'Sullivan, S., Downes, T.P. (2005) 'Multifluid Magnetohydrodynamics: An Explicit Approach' .
    2005 Downes, T.P., Cabrit, S. (2005) 'Inferred Versus Actual Characteristics of Molecular Outflows - Some Pitfalls' .
    2004 van der Swaluw, E., Downes, T.P. (2004) 'A key to pulsar wind bubble morphologies: hydrodynamical simulations' :175-178.
    2003 Coffey, D., Downes, T., Ray, T.P. (2003) 'Evolution and simulation of the XZ Tauri outburst' .
    2003 Downes, T.P., Cabrit, S. (2003) 'Jet-accelerated molecular outflows: the mass-velocity and intensity-velocity relations' 15 :120-122.
    2001 Downes, T.P., Duffy, P., Komissarov, S. (2001) 'Simulations of synchrotron emission from gamma-ray bursts' :118-125.
    2001 Downes, T.P., Duffy, P., Komissarov, S. (2001) 'Light curves and spectra from gamma ray bursts' :411-415.
    1999 Duffy, P., Downes, T.P., Gallant, Y.A., Kirk, J.G. (1999) 'Relativistic shock acceleration' :246-255.
    1997 Downes, T.P., Ray, T.P., Drury, L. O'C. (1997) 'Numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in non-adiabatic jets' :98-100.
    1995 Downes, T.P. (1995) 'Numerical simulations of H_2 emission from stellar jets' :804-808.

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2022 Rodgers-Lee, D.;Vidotto, A.A.;Taylor, A.M.;Rimmer, P.B.;Downes, T.P. (2022) Proceedings of Science Stellar versus Galactic: The intensity of energetic particles at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets [Link]
    2016 CTA Consortium (2016) Contributions of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016)
    2013 Downes T.;Roller S.;Seitsonen A.;Valcke S.;Keyes D.;Sawley M.;Schulthess T.;Shalf J. (2013) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Topic 14+16: High-performance and scientific applications and extreme-scale computing (Introduction) [DOI]
    2012 Turlough Downes (2012) Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Slows (ASTRONUM 2011) Multifluid Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Weakly Ionised Astrophysical Plasmas
    2011 Drury L.;Downes T. (2011) Proceedings of the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2011 Magnetic field amplification in shock precursors [DOI]
    2011 Downes, Turlough P. (2011) NUMERICAL MODELING OF SPACE PLASMA FLOWS: ASTRONUM-2011 Multifluid Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Weakly Ionised Astrophysical Plasmas
    2010 Turlough Downes (2010) Lecture Notes in Physics, Berlin Springer Verlag Jets from Young Stars V
    2010 Turlough Downes (2010) Lecture Notes in Physics, Berlin Springer Verlag Large-Scale Jet Simulations
    2010 Downes, Turlough P.;O'Sullivan, Stephen (2010) NUMERICAL MODELING OF SPACE PLASMA FLOWS ASTRONUM-2009 Non-ideal MHD Turbulent Decay in Molecular Clouds
    2009 Turlough Downes (2009) Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series Dynamics of magnetized YSO jets: Examples of results from the JETSET network
    2009 Turlough Downes (2009) Jets From Young Stars V Jets From Young Stars V [DOI]
    2008 Downes, Turlough P.;O'Sullivan, Stephen (2008) NUMERICAL MODELING OF SPACE PLASMA FLOWS: ASTRONUM-2007 Implications of the Hall effect for turbulent molecular clouds
    2008 O'Sullivan, Stephen;Downes, Turlough P. (2008) NUMERICAL MODELING OF SPACE PLASMA FLOWS: ASTRONUM-2007 Numerical modeling of weakly ionized plasmas
    2008 Turlough Downes (2008) Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows Numerical Modeling of Weakly Ionized Plasmas
    2008 Mullen M.;Brennan C.;Downes T. (2008) IET Conference Publications Improved buffered block forward backward method applied to 3D scattering problems [DOI]
    2008 Turlough Downes (2008) Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows Implications of the Hall Effect for Turbulent Molecular Clouds
    2007 Ferrand G.;Downes T.;Marcowith A. (2007) Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2007 Simulations of time-dependent non-linear multiple diffusive shock acceleration
    2006 O'Sullivan, Stephen;Downes, Turlough P. (2006) Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows: Astronum-2006 Numerical modeling of weakly ionized plasmas
    2006 Turlough Downes (2006) Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows Numerical Modeling of Weakly Ionized Plasmas
    2005 Turlough Downes (2005) Protostars and Planets V Posters The Stability of Rotating Jets: Numerical Simulations
    2005 O'Sullivan S.;Downes T. (2005) AIP Conference Proceedings Explicit methods for multifluid MHD [DOI]
    2005 Turlough Downes (2005) Protostars and Planets V Posters Inferred Versus Actual Characteristics of Molecular Outflows - Some Pitfalls
    2005 Turlough Downes (2005) Protostars and Planets V Posters Multifluid Magnetohydrodynamics: An Explicit Approach
    2004 NASA Astrophysics Data System (2004) A Key to Pulsar Wind Bubble Morphologies: Hydrodynamical Simulations
    2004 Turlough Downes (2004) A Key to Pulsar Wind Bubble Morphologies: Hydrodynamical Simulations
    2003 Turlough Downes (2003) Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series Jet-Accelerated Molecular Outflows: The Mass-Velocity and Intensity-Velocity Relations
    2003 Turlough Downes (2003) IAU Symposium Temporal Effects in Jet-Driven Molecular Outflows
    2003 Downes T.;Cabrit S. (2003) Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica: Serie de Conferencias Jet-accelerated molecular outflows: The mass-velocity and intensity-velocity relations
    2001 Downes, T.P.;Duffy, P.;Komissarov, S. (2001) European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP Light curves and spectra from gamma ray bursts [Link]
    2001 Turlough Downes (2001) Exploring the Gamma-Ray Universe Light curves and spectra from gamma ray bursts
    1999 Turlough Downes (1999) Plasma Turbulence and Energetic Particles in Astrophysics Relativistic Shock Acceleration
    1997 Turlough Downes (1997) Herbig-Haro Flows and the Birth of Stars Numerical simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in non-adiabatic jets
    1996 Turlough Downes (1996) Disks and Outflows Around Young Stars Numerical Simulations of H$_2$ Emission from Stellar Jets

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    Downes, T.P Disks and Outflows Around Young Stars Numerical Simulations of H_2 Emission from Stellar Jets Heidelberg, Germany .
    2004 Keegan, R. Downes, T.P. (2004) Cores, Disks and Ouflows Long term evolution of jet-driven molecular outflows Banff, Canada 01/07/2004- 05/07/2004.
    2003 Downes, T.P., & Cabrit, S. (2003) NAM2003 The mass- and intensity-velocity relations in molecular outflows Dublin, Ireland 07/04/2003- 11/04/2003.
    2003 van der Swaluw, E Downes, T.P. (2003) Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments, IAU Symposium no. 218 A Key to Pulsar Wind Bubble Morphologies: Hydrodynamical Simulations Sydney, Australia 14/07/2003- 17/07/2003.
    2002 Downes, T.P., Cabrit, S. (2002) Winds, Bubbles and Explosions Jet-accelerated molecular outflows: the mass-velocity and intensity-velocity relations Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico 09/09/2002- 13/09/2002.
    2000 Downes, T.P. (2000) Eighth AstroPlasma Physics Workshop Simulations of spectra and light-curves from gamma-ray bursts Evora, Portugal 21/05/2000- 24/05/2000.
    2000 Downes, T.P. (2000) Ninth AstroPlasma Physics Workshop The status of GRB simulations Westport, Ireland 26/09/2000- 29/09/2000.
    2000 Downes, T.P., Duffy, P., Komissarov, S. (2000) Similarities and Universality in Relativistic Flows (SURF 2000) Simulations of Synchrotron Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts Mykonos, Greece 01/10/2000- 05/10/2000.
    2000 Downes, T.P., Duffy, P., Komissarov, S. (2000) The 4th Integral Workshop: Exploring the Gamma-ray Universe Light Curves and Spectra from Gamma Ray Bursts Alicante, Spain 04/09/2000- 08/09/2000.
    1999 Downes, T.P. (1999) Fourth AstroPlasma Physics Workshop Towards a self-consistent code for modelling acceleration of cosmic rays at relativistic shocks Bordeaux, France 02/03/1999- 05/03/1999.
    1999 Downes, T.P. (1999) Fifth AstroPlasma Physics Workshop Numerical modelling of ultra-relativistic shock acceleration Kittendorf, Germany 22/06/1999- 25/06/1999.
    1999 Downes, T.P. (1999) Sixth AstroPlasma Physics Workshop Zeist, The Netherlands 26/10/1999- 29/10/1999.
    1998 Downes, T.P. (1998) Second Astroplasmic Physics Workshop The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Cooled Jets Dryburgh, Scotland 12/05/1998- 15/05/1998.
    1998 Downes, T.P. (1998) Protostars and Planets IV Numerical simulations of momentum distribution from stellar jets Santa Barbara, California, USA 06/07/1998- 11/07/1998.
    1997 Downes, T.P., Ray, T.P., Drury, L. O'C. (1997) Herbig-Haro Objects and the Birth of Low Mass Stars Numerical Simulations of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in non-adiabatic jets Chamonix, France 20/01/1997- 26/01/1997.
    1995 Downes, T.P. (1995) NATO ASI on Solar and Astrophysical MHD Flows Numerical Simulations of H_2 emission in jets from young stellar objects Heraklion, Crete, Greece 11/06/1995- 22/06/1995.

    Erratum

    Year Publication
    2020 Rodgers-Lee D.;Taylor A.M.;Ray T.P.;Downes T.P. (2020) Erratum: The ionizing effect of low-energy cosmic rays from a class II object on its protoplanetary disc (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2017) 472 (26) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1889). ERRAT [DOI]

    Publications letters

    Year Publication
    2019 Wise J.;Regan J.;O’Shea B.;Norman M.;Downes T.;Xu H. (2019) Formation of massive black holes in rapidly growing pre-galactic gas clouds. LETT [DOI]

    Working Paper

    Year Publication
    2017 NASA Astrophysics Data System (2017) Cherenkov Telescope Array Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017). WP
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    Professional Associations

    Association Function From / To
    Irish Association for High Performance Computing Founder member 01/10/1997 -
    Royal Astronomical Society Fellow 01/01/2003 - 30/12/1899
    International Astronomical Union Ordinary Member 01/06/2001 - 30/12/1899
    Astronomical Science Group of Ireland Ordinary member 01/10/1993 - 30/12/1899

    Committees

    Committee Function From / To
    NCPST Management Committee -
    Programme Committee of the PRACE User Forum 01/01/2014 -
    Programme Committee of the PRACE User Forum 01/05/2012 - 31/12/2013
    Irish Universities' Association working group on the "BlueGene" project The purpose of the group is to report to the committee of vice-presidents and deans of research of the Irish Universities on the progress of the BlueGene project and to recommend actions to be taken. 01/07/2005 - 01/06/2006
    Governing Board of the Irish Centre for High End Computing 01/06/2005 -
    DCU HPC Forum The purpose is to keep the DCU high performance computing community apprised of developments nationally and within the University. 01/05/2005 -
    Irish Association for High Performance Computing 01/11/1998 - 01/03/2000

    Research Interests

    Weakly ionised plasmas; Astrophysics : Star formation, High energy astrophysics, Computational fluid dynamics

    Contract Researchers

    Researcher Name Project Funding Body
    John Regan SMARTSTARS

    Modules Coordinated

    Term Title Subject
    2022 Partial Differential Equations MS509
    2022 PS526
    2022 Partial Differential Equations MS309
    2021 Mathematical Concepts and Skills MS111