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Institute of Astronomy

 

Richard Anslow

Research

Planetary system dynamics, planetary habitability, and the role of impacts in prebiotic chemistry and the origins of life.

Qualifications

PhD: Astronomy, University of Cambridge (2022-present)

MPhys: Physics, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (2017-2021)

Awards and Prizes

Top 10 most popular papers of 2023 (link), The Royal Society

2020 Karastergiou General Relativity Prize, performance in Part B General Relativity (University of Oxford)

2019-2021 Open Scholarship, academic performance (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford)

Publications

Key publications: 

The efficient delivery of highly-siderophile elements to the core creates a mass accretion catastrophe for the Earth Anslow R.J., Landeau M., Bonsor A., Itcovitz J., Shorttle O. preprint

The atmospheric entry of cometary impactors Anslow R.J., Bonsor A., Todd Z.R., Wordsworth R., Rae A.S.P., McDonald C.H., Rimmer P.B. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025MNRAS.539..376A/abstract

The plausibility of origins scenarios requiring two impactors Anslow R.J., Bonsor A., Rimmer P.B., Rae A.S.P., McDonald C.H., Walton C.R.  ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025RSPSA.48140327A/abstract

Can comets deliver prebiotic molecules to rocky exoplanets? Anslow R.J., Bonsor A., Rimmer P.B. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023RSPSA.47930434A/abstract

Other publications: 

Constraining the survival of HCN during cometary impacts McDonald C.H., Bonsor A., Rae A.S.P., Rimmer P.B., Anslow R.J., Todd Z.R.  doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116704

WD 0141-675: a case study on how to follow-up astrometric planet candidates around white dwarfs Rogers L.K., Debes J., Anslow R.J., et al. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024MNRAS.527..977R/abstract

Affiliations

Classifications: 
Postgraduate Students
Specialities: 
Exoplanets
Planet Formation
Colleges: 
Wolfson College

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