I am post-doctoral researcher in astrophysics at Leiden Observatory. I am interested in stellar rotation, observable signatures of coronal mass ejection modelling, and the role of space weather in determining the habitability of extrasolar planets. To study these phenomena I often use high-performance computers and three-dimensional numerical codes such as the Space Weather Modelling Framework developed at the University of Michigan.

At Leiden Observatory I have enjoyed supervising M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in the astronomy program; please contact me if you are interested using numerical modelling to study star-planet interactions in 2024/2025!

In my Ph.D. project at the University of Southern Queensland we produced the largest atlas of three-dimensional wind maps of young, Sun-like stars to date. The wind maps were based on magnetic maps of the stellar photosphere, obtained by Folsom et al. (2016, 2018) with Zeeman-Doppler Imaging (ZDI). We then used three-dimensional numerical (SWMF/BATSRUS) simulations to produce stellar wind maps covering the stellar corona and astrosphere. The project combined solar physics, space physics, astronomy, and numerical simulations and the results were published in a series of papers (Evensberget et al. 2021, 2022, 2023).

Recorded talks

During Covid many conference talks were recorded as well as presented on-line to a live audience. Here are three contributed talks I gave in 2021 presenting some of the results of my Ph.D. research:

“Inferring the history of the Solar wind from stellar magnetic field observations” at the ASTRO3D ECR Austronomers in Australia Seminar (26 minutes).

“Can we infer the history of the Solar wind from stellar magnetic field observations?” at the Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Science Meeting (10 minutes).

“Probing the effect of magnetic geometry and field strength on stellar spin-down with MHD simulations” at the 9th BCool meeting (5 minutes).

Academic CV

Here is a link to my academic CV (in LaTeX of course).

Recent journal articles

Cotton, D. V.; Bailey, J.; Kedziora-Chudczer, L.; Bott, K.; De Horta, A.; Filcek, N.; Marshall, J. P.; Melville, G.; Buzasi, D. L.; Boiko, I.; Borsato, N. W.; Perkins, J.; Opitz, D.; Melrose, S.; Grüning, G.; Evensberget, D.; Zhao, J. Polarization position angle standard stars: a reassessment of θ and its variability for seventeen stars based on a decade of observations (free link). MNRAS 2024.

Bellotti, S.; Evensberget, D.; Vidotto, A. A.; Lavail, A.; Lüftinger, T.; Hussain, G. A. J.; Morin, J.; Petit, P.; Boro Saikia, S.; Danielski, C.; Micela, G. Spectropolarimetric characterisation of exoplanet host stars in preparation of the Ariel mission. Magnetic environment of HD 63433. A&A 2024.

Strickert, K. M.; Evensberget, D.; Vidotto, A. A. High-latitude coronal mass ejections on the young solar-like star AB Dor (free link). MNRAS 2024.

Evensberget, D.; Vidotto, A. A. Rotational evolution of young-to-old stars with data-driven three-dimensional wind models (free link). MNRAS 2024.

Evensberget, D.; Marsden, S. C.; Carter, B. D.; Salmeron, R.; Vidotto, A. A.; Folsom, C. P.; Kavanagh, R. D.; Pineda, J. S.; Driessen, F. A.; Strickert, K. M. The winds of young Solar-type stars in the Pleiades, AB Doradus, Columba and β Pictoris (free link). MNRAS 2023.

Marsden, S. C.; Evensberget, D.; Brown, E. L.; Neiner, C.; Seach, J. M.; Morin, J.; Petit, P.; Jeffers, S. V.; Folsom, C. P. The magnetic field and stellar wind of the mature late-F star χ Draconis A. MNRAS 2023.

Evensberget, D.; Carter, B. D.; Marsden, S. C.; Brookshaw, L.; Folsom, C. P.; Salmeron, R. The winds of young Solar-type stars in Coma Berenices and Hercules-Lyra. MNRAS 2022.

Seach, J. M.; Marsden, S. C.; Carter, B. D.; Evensberget, D.; Folsom, C. P.; Neiner, C.; Mengel, M. W. The magnetic fields and stellar winds of the mature late F-stars: β Virginis and θ Draconis. MNRAS 2022.

Evensberget, D., Carter, B. D., Marsden, S. C., and Brookshaw, L. The winds of young, Solar-type stars in the Hyades (free link). MNRAS 2021.

Addison, Brett C.; Wright, Duncan J.; Nicholson, Belinda A.; Cale, Bryson; Mocnik, Teo; Huber, Daniel; Plavchan, Peter; Wittenmyer, Robert A.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Chaplin, William J.; Chontos, Ashley; Clark, Jake T.; Eastman, Jason D.; Ziegler, Carl; Brahm, Rafael; Carter, Bradley D.; Clerte, Mathieu; Espinoza, Néstor; Horner, Jonathan; Bentley, John; Jordán, Andrés; Kane, Stephen R.; Kielkopf, John F.; Laychock, Emilie; Mengel, Matthew W.; Okumura, Jack; Stassun, Keivan G.; Bedding, Timothy R.; Bowler, Brendan P.; Burnelis, Andrius; Blanco-Cuaresma, Sergi; Collins, Michaela; Crossfield, Ian; Davis, Allen B.; Evensberget, Dag; Heitzmann, Alexis; Howell, Steve B.; Law, Nicholas; Mann, Andrew W.; Marsden, Stephen C.; Matson, Rachel A.; O’Connor, James H.; Shporer, Avi; Stevens, Catherine; Tinney, C. G.; Tylor, Christopher; Wang, Songhu; Zhang, Hui; Henning, Thomas; Kossakowski, Diana; Ricker, George; Sarkis, Paula; Schlecker, Martin; Torres, Pascal; Vanderspek, Roland; Latham, David W.; Seager, Sara; Winn, Joshua N.; Jenkins, Jon M.; Mireles, Ismael; Rowden, Pam; Pepper, Joshua; Daylan, Tansu; Schlieder, Joshua E.; Collins, Karen A.; Collins, Kevin I.; Tan, Thiam-Guan; Ball, Warrick H.; Basu, Sarbani; Buzasi, Derek L.; Campante, Tiago L.; Corsaro, Enrico; González-Cuesta, L.; Davies, Guy R.; de Almeida, Leandro; do Nascimento, Jose-Dias, Jr.; García, Rafael A.; Guo, Zhao; Handberg, Rasmus; Hekker, Saskia; Hey, Daniel R.; Kallinger, Thomas; Kawaler, Steven D.; Kayhan, Cenk; Kuszlewicz, James S.; Lund, Mikkel N.; Lyttle, Alexander; Mathur, Savita; Miglio, Andrea; Mosser, Benoit; Nielsen, Martin B.; Serenelli, Aldo M.; Aguirre, Victor Silva; Themeßl, Nathalie TOI-257b (HD 19916b): a warm sub-saturn orbiting an evolved F-type star. MNRAS 2021.

Bailey, Jeremy; Bott, Kimberly; Cotton, Daniel V.; Kedziora-Chudczer, Lucyna; Zhao, Jinglin; Evensberget, Dag; Marshall, Jonathan P.; Wright, Duncan; Lucas, P. W. Polarization of hot Jupiter systems: a likely detection of stellar activity and a possible detection of planetary polarization. MNRAS 2021.

Cotton, Daniel V.; Evensberget, Dag; Marsden, Stephen C.; Bailey, Jeremy; Zhao, Jinglin; Kedziora-Chudczer, Lucyna; Carter, Bradley D.; Bott, Kimberly; Vidotto, Aline A.; Petit, Pascal; Morin, Julien; Jeffers, Sandra V. The rotationally modulated polarization of ξ Boo A. MNRAS 2019.