Falk Herwig

Falk Herwig (born 1969) is a Canadian astrophysicist who is known for his researches at the University of Victoria. He has over 200 peer-reviewed articles which brought him an h-index of 37.[1]

Research

In 1998 he and another astrophysicist, Thomas Driebe, described the evolution of helium white dwarfs[2] and two years later published his finding on evolution of convective overshooting of asymptotic giant branch stars.[3] In 1999 he and his colleagues described what happens after the star explodes. He used the PG 1159 star as an example and proved the existence of convective overshooting.[4]

References
  1. "Falk Herwig". Google Scholar. Retrieved May 4, 2014.
  2. Thomas Driebe; Falk Herwig (September 7, 1998). "The evolution of helium white dwarfs: I. The companion of the millisecond pulsar PSR J1012+5307" (Report). Cornell University Library. arXiv:astro-ph/9809079. Bibcode:1998yCat..33390123D.
  3. Herwig, Falk (July 11, 2000). "The evolution of AGB stars with convective overshoot". University of Potsdam (Report). Cornell University Library. arXiv:astro-ph/0007139.
  4. Falk Herwig; T Blöcker; N Langer; T Driebe (August 10, 1999). "On the formation of hydrogen-deficient post-AGB stars" (Report). Cornell University Library. arXiv:astro-ph/9908108.


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