Jacco Vink

Jacco Vink

Jacco Vink

Update (01/2025): I am honored to have been awarded a Humboldt Research Award!

I am an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, working in the field of high energy astrophysics.

My current research focusses on supernova remnants, in particular on their cosmic-ray acceleration capabilities. I am also interested in neutron stars, magnetars, pulsar wind nebulae, clusters of galaxies and AGN.

I am a science member of the following collaborations: H.E.S.S. (chair of PWNe/SNR working group), the future gamma-ray observatory CTAO, the JAXA/NASA X-ray spectroscopy mission XRISM, and the NASA Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission IXPE. On behalf of NOVA I am chairing the Minnaert Committee for public outreach.

Group members

Manan Agarwal Msc
Youyou Li Msc
Dr Vadym Voitsekhovskyi

Past PhD students/postdoc group members include

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Humboldt Research Award for Jacco Vink

The Alexander von Humboldt foundation has granted Jacco Vink the Humboldt Research Award in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in research and teaching to date.

The award will enable Jacco Vink to spend extended research visits to Desy Zeuthen. (22/01/2025)

Chasing down the "Green Monster"

Webb revealed a puzzling structure in Cas A: the "green monster". An overview of the observations and an X-ray follow-up study are published. Conclusion: the structure is caused by an eruption of the star, recently heated up by the supernova blast wave. Click here for NASA press release. (08/01/2024)

IXPE result on magnetic-field structure Cas A published!

The IXPE paper on Cas A's magnetic-field structure based on X-ray polarization has been published! (Vink et al 2022 ApJ 938 40) Click here for NASA press release. (18/10/2022)

The latest news from the new star of 1604

Recently H.E.S.S. announced the detection of Kepler's supernova remnant (a.k.a SN 1614) at the >4σ level.

Now H.E.S.S. has made Kepler's SNR the H.E.S.S. source of the Month March. (1/3/2022)

Shocks dynamics of Cas A

A new preprint on the shock dynamics of Cas A, based on Chandra data. It shows that the forward shock is accelerating and the reverse shock is moving to the center in the West. This is best understood using a model with a local density enhancement recently encountered by the forward shock. (25/1/2022)

Book: Physics and Evolution of Supernova Remnants

In December 2021 my book "Physics and Evolution of Supernova Remnants" was published by Springer. The book can be ordered online through the usual online booksellers, or can be downloaded from Springer.

If you have the book, and have some comments please e-mail me. I am planning to compile a list of errata. (25/1/2022)