Publications (86)
Berkeley Supernova Ia Program III: Spectra Near Maximum Brightness Improve the Accuracy of Derived Distances to Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li +1
PTF11eon/SN2011dh: Discovery of a Type IIb Supernova From a Compact Progenitor in the Nearby Galaxy M51
Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ofer Yaron +40
Optical Observations of the Type Ic Supernova 2007gr in NGC 1058 and Implications for the Properties of its Progenitor
Juncheng Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Mohan Ganeshalingam +6
SN 2008S: A Cool Super-Eddington Wind in a Supernova Impostor
Nathan Smith, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Ryan Chornock +10
The Very Young Type Ia Supernova 2013dy: Discovery, and Strong Carbon Absorption in Early-Time Spectra
WeiKang Zheng, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko +20
Exploring the spectral diversity of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae using the Palomar Transient Factory
Kate Maguire, Mark Sullivan, Yen-Chen Pan +15
Possible detection of singly-ionized oxygen in the Type Ia SN 2010kg
Barnabas Barna, Jozsef Vinko, Jeffrey M. Silverman +2
Photometric and Spectroscopic Properties of Type II-P Supernovae
Tamar Faran, Dovi Poznanski, Alexei V. Filippenko +9
SN~2012cg: Evidence for Interaction Between a Normal Type Ia Supernova and a Non-Degenerate Binary Companion
G. H. Marion, Peter J. Brown, Jozsef Vinkó +26
Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: An Initial Sample, and Type Ia Rate, out to Redshift 1.6
Dovi Poznanski, Dan Maoz, Naoki Yasuda +12
The Most Slowly Declining Type Ia Supernova 2001ay
Kevin Krisciunas, Weidong Li, Thomas Matheson +28
PTF10nvg: An Outbursting Class I Protostar in the Pelican/North American Nebula
Kevin R. Covey, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adam A. Miller +28
Improved Standardization of Type II-P Supernovae: Application to an Expanded Sample
Dovi Poznanski, Nathaniel Butler, Alexei V. Filippenko +16
Three New Eclipsing White-dwarf - M-dwarf Binaries Discovered in a Search for Transiting Planets Around M-dwarfs
Nicholas M. Law, Adam L. Kraus, Rachel Street +24
Berkeley Supernova Ia Program I: Observations, Data Reduction, and Spectroscopic Sample of 582 Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko +37
Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam +25
Discovery of Precursor LBV Outbursts in Two Recent Optical Transients: The Fitfully Variable Missing Links UGC 2773-OT and SN 2009ip
Nathan Smith, Adam A. Miller, Weidong Li +11
The Continuing Story of SN IIb 2013df: New Optical and IR Observations and Analysis
Tamás Szalai, József Vinkó, Andrea P. Nagy +17
Peculiar Type II Supernovae from Blue Supergiants
Io K. W. Kleiser, Dovi Poznanski, Daniel Kasen +10
Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2
Or Graur, Dovi Poznanski, Dan Maoz +9
The Unprecedented 2012 Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a True Supernova
Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Alexei Filippenko +9
SN 2011hw: Helium-Rich Circumstellar Gas and the Luminous Blue Variable to Wolf-Rayet Transition in Supernova Progenitors
Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, Jeffrey M. Silverman +5
Large Late-time Asphericities in Three Type IIP Supernovae
Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko, Weidong Li +1
Training the Next Generation of Astronomers
Peter K. G. Williams, Eric Huff, Holly Maness +28
Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011dh in M51: geometric insights on a Type IIb supernova progenitor and explosion
Jon C. Mauerhan, G. Grant Williams, Douglas C. Leonard +11
The Very Young Type Ia Supernova 2012cg: Discovery and Early-Time Follow-Up Observations
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, S. Bradley Cenko +15
Spectral Evolution of the Extraordinary Type IIn Supernova 2006gy
Nathan Smith, Ryan Chornock, Jeffrey M. Silverman +2
Highly Variable Extinction and Accretion in the Jet-driving Class I Type Young Star PTF 10nvg (V2492 Cyg, IRAS 20496+4354)
Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Adam A. Miller, Kevin R. Covey +8
Swift J2058.4+0516: Discovery of a Possible Second Relativistic Tidal Disruption Flare?
S. Bradley Cenko, Hans A. Krimm, Assaf Horesh +18
PTF11iqb: Cool supergiant mass loss that bridges the gap between Type IIn and normal supernovae
Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, S. Bradley Cenko +16
Constraining the Progenitor Companion of the Nearby Type Ia SN 2011fe with a Nebular Spectrum at +981 Days
Melissa L. Graham, Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan +5
The Type Ia Supernova Rate in Redshift 0.5--0.9 Galaxy Clusters
Keren Sharon, Avishay Gal-Yam, Dan Maoz +14
SN 2006tf: Precursor Eruptions and the Optically Thick Regime of Extremely Luminous Type IIn Supernovae
Nathan Smith, Ryan Chornock, Weidong Li +5
Type Ia Supernova Rate Measurements to Redshift 2.5 from CANDELS : Searching for Prompt Explosions in the Early Universe
Steven A. Rodney, Adam G. Riess, Louis-Gregory Strolger +35
The Progenitor of Supernova 2011dh/PTF11eon in Messier 51
Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Weidong Li, S. Bradley Cenko +12
Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of the Type Iax Supernovae SN 2005hk and SN 2008A
Curtis McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, Ryan J. Foley +24
On the Nature of Type Ia-CSM Supernovae: Optical and Near-Infrared Spectra of SN 2012ca and SN 2013dn
Ori D. Fox, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko +17
Late-Time Spectral Observations of the Strongly Interacting Type Ia Supernova PTF11kx
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam +6
SN 2008ha: An Extremely Low Luminosity and Extremely Low Energy Supernova
Ryan J. Foley, Ryan Chornock, Alexei V. Filippenko +9
Variable Sodium Absorption in a Low-Extinction Type Ia Supernova
Joshua D. Simon, Avishay Gal-Yam, Orly Gnat +18
High-Velocity Line Forming Regions in the Type Ia Supernova 2009ig
G. H. Marion, Jozsef Vinko, J. Craig Wheeler +13
The First Maximum-Light Ultraviolet through Near-Infrared Spectrum of a Type Ia Supernova
Ryan J. Foley, Markus Kromer, G. Howie Marion +21
SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Ryan J. Foley +8
Fourteen Months of Observations of the Possible Super-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernova 2009dc
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li +3
Supernova 2011fe from an Exploding Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Star
Peter E. Nugent, Mark Sullivan, S. Bradley Cenko +36
Nebular spectroscopy of the nearby type IIb supernova 2011dh
Isaac Shivvers, Paolo Mazzali, Jeffrey M. Silverman +6
Constraints on the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2011fe/PTF11kly
Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski +25
Discovery, Progenitor & Early Evolution of a Stripped Envelope Supernova iPTF13bvn
Yi Cao, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Iair Arcavi +24
Discovery and Early Multi-Wavelength Measurements of the Energetic Type Ic Supernova PTF12gzk: A Massive-Star Explosion in a Dwarf Host Galaxy
Sagi Ben-Ami, Avishay Gal-Yam, Alexei V. Filippenko +45
Late-Time Circumstellar Interaction in a Spitzer Selected Sample of Type IIn Supernovae
Ori D. Fox, Alexei V. Filippenko, Michael F. Skrutskie +4
Type Ia Supernovae Strongly Interacting with Their Circumstellar Medium
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Peter E. Nugent, Avishay Gal-Yam +31
SN 2000cx and SN 2013bh: Extremely Rare, Nearly Twin Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jozsef Vinko, Mansi M. Kasliwal +17
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Dynamical Modeling of the Broad Line Region in Mrk 50
Anna Pancoast, Brendon J. Brewer, Tommaso Treu +33
A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Search for the Remaining Donor for Tycho's Supernova
Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf, David Yong, Brian P. Schmidt +12
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Reverberation Mapping of Optical Hydrogen and Helium Recombination Lines
Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth +23
The early phases of the type Iax supernova SN 2011ay
Tamás Szalai, József Vinkó, Krisztián Sárneczky +7
A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant
Adam G. Riess, Lucas M. Macri, Samantha L. Hoffmann +12
SN 2011ht: Confirming a Class of Interacting Supernovae with Plateau Light Curves (Type IIn-P)
Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Jeffrey M. Silverman +6
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material
Sagi Ben-Ami, Stephan Hachinger, Avishay Gal-Yam +9
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Fe II Reverberation from the Outer Broad-Line Region
Aaron J. Barth, Anna Pancoast, Vardha N. Bennert +26
Discovery of a Cosmological, Relativistic Outburst via its Rapidly Fading Optical Emission
S. Bradley Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, Assaf Horesh +26
Late Time Radio Emission from X-ray Selected Tidal Disruption Events
Geoffrey C. Bower, Brian D. Metzger, S. Bradley Cenko +2
SN 2006bt: A Perplexing, Troublesome, and Possibly Misleading Type Ia Supernova
Ryan J. Foley, Gautham Narayan, Peter J. Challis +4
Coronal lines and dust formation in SN 2005ip: Not the brightest, but the hottest Type IIn supernova
Nathan Smith, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Ryan Chornock +7
On IC 10 X-1, the Most Massive Known Stellar-Mass Black Hole
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko
The Massive Progenitor of the Possible Type II-Linear Supernova 2009hd in Messier 66
Nancy Elias-Rosa, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Weidong Li +11
Luminous Blue Variable eruptions and related transients: Diversity of progenitors and outburst properties
Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Jeffrey M. Silverman +2
First Results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project: The Mass of the Black Hole in Arp 151
Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth +24
Systematic Blueshift of Line Profiles in the Type IIn Supernova 2010jl: Evidence for Post-Shock Dust Formation?
Nathan Smith, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko +5
Twins for life? A comparative analysis of the Type Ia supernovae 2011fe and 2011by
Melissa L. Graham, Ryan J. Foley, Weikang Zheng +6
Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of the Highly Reddened, Rapidly Expanding Type Ia Supernova 2006X in M100
Xiaofeng Wang, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko +14
A Spitzer Survey for Dust in Type IIn Supernovae
Ori D. Fox, Roger A. Chevalier, Michael F. Skrutskie +6
Evidence for an FU Orionis-like Outburst from a Classical T Tauri Star
Adam A. Miller, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Kevin R. Covey +26
A Massive Progenitor of the Luminous Type IIn Supernova 2010jl
Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Adam A. Miller +6
High-Velocity Features of Calcium and Silicon in the Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jozsef Vinko, G. H. Marion +5
PTF10iya: A short-lived, luminous flare from the nuclear region of a star-forming galaxy
S. Bradley Cenko, Joshua S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni +28
Light Curves of 213 Type Ia Supernovae from the ESSENCE Survey
Gautham Narayan, Armin Rest, Brad E. Tucker +34
Berkeley Supernova Ia Program V: Late-Time Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Alexei V. Filippenko
Berkeley Supernova Ia Program II: Initial Analysis of Spectra Obtained Near Maximum Brightness
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jason J. Kong, Alexei V. Filippenko
The Lick AGN Monitoring Project: Broad-Line Region Radii and Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping of Hbeta
Misty C. Bentz, Jonelle L. Walsh, Aaron J. Barth +24
Constraints on Circumstellar Material Around the Type Ia Supernova 2007af
Joshua D. Simon, Avishay Gal-Yam, Bryan E. Penprase +9
Low-Resolution Sodium D Absorption is a Bad Proxy for Extinction
Dovi Poznanski, Mohan Ganeshaligam, Jeffrey M. Silverman +1
The Low-Velocity, Rapidly Fading Type Ia Supernova 2002es
Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko +8
Carbon Detection in Early-Time Optical Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Alexei V. Filippenko
SN 2015U: A Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Type Ibn Supernova
Isaac Shivvers, WeiKang Zheng, Jon Mauerhan +7
Optical Spectroscopy of the Somewhat Peculiar Type IIb Supernova 2001ig
Jeffrey M. Silverman, Paolo Mazzali, Ryan Chornock +5