Steven Andrew Balbus

Affiliations: 
1985-2004 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 
 2004-2012 Physics École normale supérieure Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France 
 2012- University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 
Area:
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Fluid and Plasma Physics
Website:
http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=94&threeid=218&fourid=385&fiveid=180
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http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~cmckee/grads.html

Parents

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Christopher F. McKee grad student 1981 UC Berkeley
 (The effects of thermal conduction in high temperature astrophysical gas dynamics.)

Children

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Matthew W. Kunz research assistant 2001-2003 UVA (Physics Tree)
Tanim Islam grad student 2007 UVA
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Mummery A, Balbus SA. (2020) ASASSN-15lh: a TDE about a maximally rotating 109 M⊙ black hole Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497
Mummery A, Balbus SA. (2020) The spectral evolution of disc dominated tidal disruption events Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492: 5655-5674
Schneider FRN, Ohlmann ST, Podsiadlowski P, et al. (2020) Long-term evolution of a magnetic massive merger product Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495: 2796-2812
Schneider FRN, Ohlmann ST, Podsiadlowski P, et al. (2019) Stellar mergers as the origin of magnetic massive stars. Nature. 574: 211-214
Mummery A, Balbus SA. (2019) Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress: II. Late time behaviour Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489: 143-152
Mummery A, Balbus SA. (2019) Evolution of relativistic thin discs with a finite ISCO stress: I. Stalled accretion Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489: 132-142
Balbus SA, Mummery A. (2018) The evolution of Kerr discs and late-time tidal disruption event light curves Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 481: 3348-3356
Potter WJ, Balbus SA. (2017) Demonstration of a magnetic Prandtl number disc instability from first principles Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472: 3021-3028
Balbus SA. (2017) The general relativistic thin disc evolution equation Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471: 4832-4838
Balbus SA. (2017) When is high Reynolds number shear flow not turbulent Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 824: 1-4
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