Publications (141)
Carina's Defiant Finger: HST Observations of a Photoevaporating Globule in NGC3372
Nathan Smith, Rodolfo Barba, Nolan R. Walborn
The reverse shock of SNR1987A at 18 years after outburst
Nathan Smith, Svetozar A. Zhekov, Kevin Heng +3
SN 2008S: A Cool Super-Eddington Wind in a Supernova Impostor
Nathan Smith, Mohan Ganeshalingam, Ryan Chornock +10
The UV Scattering Halo of the Central Source Associated with Eta Carinae
D. John Hillier, T. Gull, K. Nielsen +8
The Detection of a Light Echo from the Type Ia Supernova 2006X in M100
Xiaofeng Wang, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko +3
SN 2009ip and SN 2010mc: Core-collapse Type IIn supernovae arising from blue supergiants
Nathan Smith, Jon Mauerhan, Jose Prieto
A silicate disk in the heart of the Ant
Olivier Chesneau, Foteini Lykou, Bruce Balick +6
Penetrating the Homunculus -- Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Images of Eta Carinae
Ãtienne Artigau, John C. Martin, Roberta M. Humphreys +3
Circumstellar Material Around Evolved Massive Stars
Nathan Smith
Eta Carinae and Nebulae Around Massive Stars: Similarities to Planetary Nebulae?
Nathan Smith
Late-time observations of SN2006gy: Still Going Strong
Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua S. Bloom +9
On the role of the WNH phase in the evolution of very massive stars: Enabling the LBV instability with feedback
Nathan Smith, Peter S. Conti
The Crab Nebula and the class of Type IIn-P supernovae caused by sub-energetic electron capture explosions
Nathan Smith
A Catalog of Chandra X-ray Sources in the Carina Nebula
Patrick S. Broos, Leisa K. Townsley, Eric D. Feigelson +14
Understanding Global Galactic Star Formation
Paul A. Scowen, Rolf Jansen, Matthew Beasley +9
Eruptive Outflow Phases of Massive Stars
Nathan Smith
High Resolution Spectroscopy of SN1987A's Rings: He I 10830 and H-alpha from the Hotspots
Nathan Smith, Richard McCray
Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Crab Nebula
Tea Temim, Robert D. Gehrz, Charles E. Woodward +7
Explosive Outflows Powered by the Decay of Non-Hierarchical Multiple Systems of Massive Stars: Orion BN/KL
John Bally, Nathaniel J. Cunningham, Nickolas Moeckel +4
Improved Standardization of Type II-P Supernovae: Application to an Expanded Sample
Dovi Poznanski, Nathaniel Butler, Alexei V. Filippenko +16
Dissecting the Homunculus nebula around Eta Carinae with spatially resolved near-infrared spectroscopy
Nathan Smith
Physical conditions in the Homunculus
Gary J. Ferland, Nick Abel, Kris Davidson +1
SN2010jp (PTF10aaxi): A Jet-Driven Type II Supernova
Nathan Smith, S. Bradley Cenko, Nat Butler +18
On the role of continuum-driven eruptions in the evolution of very massive stars and Population III stars
Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki
Galactic Twins of the Nebula Around SN 1987A: Hints that LBVs may be supernova progenitors
Nathan Smith
Type IIb Supernova SN 2011dh: Spectra and Photometry from the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared
G. H. "Howie'' Marion, Jozsef Vinko, Robert P. Kirshner +26
Dust Formation and He II 4686 emission in the Dense Shell of the Peculiar Type Ib Supernova 2006jc
Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko
Possible Detection of a Pair Instability Supernova in the Modern Universe, and Implications for the First Stars
Nathan Smith
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
And in the Darkness Bind Them: Equatorial Rings, B[e] Supergiants, and the Waists of Bipolar Nebulae
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Josh Walawender
A Three-Decade Outburst of the LMC Luminous Blue Variable R127 Draws to a Close
Nolan R. Walborn, Otmar Stahl, Roberto C. Gamen +7
Independent Signs of Lower Mass-Loss Rates for O-Type Stars
Nathan Smith
Uncovering the Putative B-Star Binary Companion of the SN 1993J Progenitor
Ori D. Fox, K. Azalee Bostroem, Schuyler D. Van Dyk +9
A Blast Wave from the 1843 Eruption of Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith
What Powers the 3000-Day Light Curve of SN 2006gy?
Ori D. Fox, Nathan Smith, S. Mark Ammons +11
Discovery of a nearby twin of SN1987A's nebula around the luminous blue variable HD168625: Was Sk--69 202 an LBV?
Nathan Smith
The Star Formation Camera
Paul A. Scowen, Rolf Jansen, Matthew Beasley +21
Galactic Twins of the Ring Nebula Around SN1987A and a Possible LBV-like Phase for Sk-69 202
Nathan Smith
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
Spatially extended K I 7699 emission in the nebula of VY CMa: Kinematics and geometry
Nathan Smith
SN Hunt 248: a super-Eddington outburst from a massive cool hypergiant
Jon C. Mauerhan, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Melissa L Graham +8
Supernova 1998S at 14 years Postmortem: Continuing Circumstellar Interaction and Dust Formation
Jon Mauerhan, Nathan Smith
Spitzer Space Telescope observations of the Carina Nebula: The steady march of feedback-driven star formation
Nathan Smith, Matthew S. Povich, Barbara A. Whitney +7
The [O III] Veil: Astropause of Eta Carinae's Wind?
Nathan Smith, Jon A. Morse, John Bally
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
Red supergiants as potential Type IIn supernova progenitors: Spatially resolved 4.6 micron CO emission around VY CMa and Betelgeuse
Nathan Smith, Kenneth H. Hinkle, Nils Ryde
A Model for the 19th Century Eruption of Eta Carinae: CSM Interaction Like a Scaled-Down Type IIn Supernova
Nathan Smith
The Ring Nebula Around the Blue Supergiant SBW1: Pre-Explosion Snapshot of a SN 1987A Twin
Nathan Smith, W. David Arnett, John Bally +2
An Excess of Mid-Infrared Emission from the Type Iax SN 2014dt
Ori D. Fox, Joel Johansson, Mansi Kasliwal +12
The Structure of the Homunculus: I. Shape and Latitude Dependence from H2 and [Fe II] Velocity Maps of Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith
The Persistent Eruption of UGC~2773-OT: Finally, a Decade-Long Extragalactic Eta Carinae Analog
Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Jon C. Mauerhan +4
Episodic Post-Shock Dust Formation in the Colliding Winds of Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith
A disrupted circumstellar torus inside eta Carinae's Homunculus Nebula
Nathan Smith, Robert D. Gehrz, Phillip M. Hinz +4
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material
Sagi Ben-Ami, Stephan Hachinger, Avishay Gal-Yam +9
Kinematics of powerful jets from intermediate-mass protostars in the Carina nebula
Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith
The Impact of the Astro2010 Recommendations on Variable Star Science
Lucianne M. Walkowicz, Andrew C. Becker, Scott F. Anderson +13
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
A Census of the Carina Nebula. I: Cumulative Energy Input from Massive Stars
Nathan Smith
Thermal-IR Detection of Optical Outflow Sources in OMC1 South
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Ralph Y. Shuping +2
Explosions Triggered by Violent Binary-Star Collisions: Application to Eta Carinae and other Eruptive Transients
Nathan Smith
A Study of H2 Emission in Three Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebulae: IRAS 16594-4656, Hen 3-401, and Rob 22
Bruce J. Hrivnak, Nathan Smith, Kate Y. L. Su +1
HST/WFC3 Imaging of Protostellar Jets in Carina: [Fe II] Emission Tracing Massive Jets from Intermediate Mass Protostars
Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith
HST-COS Observations of Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon and Nitrogen Emission from the SN 1987A Reverse Shock
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Steven V. Penton +18
Massive star formation and feedback in W49A: The source of our Galaxy's most luminous water maser outflow
Nathan Smith, Barbara A. Whitney, Peter S. Conti +2
SDSS1133: An Unusually Persistent Transient in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
Michael Koss, Laura Blecha, Richard Mushotzky +12
Luminous Blue Variables are Antisocial: Their Isolation Implies that they are Kicked Mass Gainers in Binary Evolution
Nathan Smith, Ryan Tombleson
Thermal Dust Emission from Proplyds, Unresolved Disks, and Shocks in the Orion Nebula
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Ralph Y. Shuping +2
Kinematic Structure of H2 and [Fe II] in the Bipolar Planetary Nebula M 2-9
Nathan Smith, Bruce Balick, Robert D. Gehrz
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0
LSST Science Collaboration, Paul A. Abell, Julius Allison +245
Episodic Mass Loss and Pre-SN Circumstellar Envelopes
Nathan Smith
Observed Fractions of Core-Collapse Supernova Types and Initial Masses of their Single and Binary Progenitor Stars
Nathan Smith, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko +1
Mapping High-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha Emission from Supernova 1987A
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Claes Fransson +12
The Destruction of the Circumstellar Ring of SN 1987A
Claes Fransson, Josefin Larsson, Katia Migotto +23
A Revised Historical Light Curve of Eta Carinae and the Timing of Close Periastron Encounters
Nathan Smith, David J. Frew
On the Progenitor System of the Type Iax Supernova 2014dt in M61
Ryan J. Foley, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Saurabh W. Jha +5
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of SN2009ip's 2012 Brightening Reveals a Dusty Pre-Supernova Environment
Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, Mansi M. Kasliwal +1
New Silhouette Disks with Reflection Nebulae and Outflows in the Orion Nebula and M43
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Daniel Licht +1
Infrared [Fe II] emission from P Cygni's nebula: Atomic data, mass, kinematics, and the 1600 A.D. outburst
Nathan Smith, Patrick Hartigan
Opening the Treasure Chest: A Newborn Star Cluster Emerges from its Dust Pillar in Carina
Nathan Smith, Keivan G. Stassun, John Bally
Nitrogen and Oxygen Abundance Variations in the Outer Ejecta of Eta Carinae: Evidence for Recent Chemical Enrichment
Nathan Smith, Jon A. Morse
Discovery of a candidate protoplanetary disk around the embedded source IRc9 in Orion
Nathan Smith, John Bally
Multiwavelength Observations of NaSt1 (WR 122): Equatorial Mass Loss and X-rays from an Interacting Wolf-Rayet Binary
Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Schuyler D. Van Dyk +5
The Missing Luminous Blue Variables and the Bistability Jump
Nathan Smith, Jorick S. Vink, Alex de Koter
High Density Circumstellar Interaction in the Luminous Type IIn SN 2010jl: The first 1100 days
Claes Fransson, Mattias Ergon, Peter J. Challis +16
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 Systemic Velocity of Eta Carinae
Nathan Smith
Bipolar Symbiotic Planetary Nebulae in the Thermal-IR: M2-9, Mz3, and He2-104
Nathan Smith, Robert D. Gehrz
The Purple Haze of Eta Carinae: Binary-Induced Variability?
Nathan Smith, Jon A. Morse, Nicholas R. Collins +1
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
Late-time spectroscopy of SN 2002hh: A continued visible light echo with no shock interaction yet
Jennifer E. Andrews, Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan
Spectral Evolution of the Extraordinary Type IIn Supernova 2006gy
Nathan Smith, Ryan Chornock, Jeffrey M. Silverman +2
PTF11iqb: Cool supergiant mass loss that bridges the gap between Type IIn and normal supernovae
Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, S. Bradley Cenko +16
SN 2006jc: A Wolf-Rayet Star Exploding in a Dense He-Rich Circumstellar Medium
Ryan J. Foley, Nathan Smith, Mohan Ganeshalingam +3
Multi-epoch Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011fe
Paul S. Smith, G. Grant Williams, Nathan Smith +3
HH 666: Different kinematics from Hα and [Fe II] emission provide a missing link between jets and outflows
Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith, Megan M. Kiminki +1
SN 2006tf: Precursor Eruptions and the Optically Thick Regime of Extremely Luminous Type IIn Supernovae
Nathan Smith, Ryan Chornock, Weidong Li +5
Numerical models of collisions between core-collapse supernovae and circumstellar shells
Allard Jan van Marle, Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki +1
Evolution of the Reverse Shock Emission from SNR 1987A
Kevin Heng, Richard McCray, Svetozar A. Zhekov +13
Observing Supernova 1987A with the Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Kevin Heng +18