Publications (188)
Zooming In on the Progenitors of Superluminous Supernovae With the HST
R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +25
SNe 2013K and 2013am: observed and physical properties of two slow, normal Type IIP events
L. Tomasella, E. Cappellaro, M. L. Pumo +28
SN 2011fu: A type IIb Supernova with a luminous double-peaked light curve
A. Morales-Garoffolo, N. Elias-Rosa, M. Bersten +17
The Type IIP Supernova 2012aw in M95: hydrodynamical modelling of the photospheric phase from accurate spectrophotometric monitoring
M. Dall'Ora, M. T. Botticella, M. L. Pumo +38
Nebular spectra of pair-instability supernovae
A. Jerkstrand, S. J. Smartt, A. Heger
On the nature of Hydrogen-rich Superluminous Supernovae
C. Inserra, S. J. Smartt, E. E. E. Gall +33
Total eclipse of the heart: The AM CVn Gaia14aae / ASSASN-14cn
H. C. Campbell, T. R. Marsh, M. Fraser +82
Towards Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: a Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1
N. E. Sanders, A. M. Soderberg, S. Gezari +30
The POINT-AGAPE survey II: An Unrestricted Search for Microlensing Events towards M31
V. Belokurov, J. An, N. W. Evans +16
Classical novae from the POINT-AGAPE microlensing survey of M31 -- I. The nova catalogue
M. J. Darnley, M. F. Bode, E. Kerins +16
The first month of evolution of the slow rising type II-P SN 2013ej in M74
S. Valenti, D. Sand, A. Pastorello +14
On the progenitor and early evolution of the type II supernova 2009kr
M. Fraser, K. Takats, A. Pastorello +13
Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging
D. E. Wright, S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith +15
The nature of the progenitor of the Type II-P supernova 1999em
S. J. Smartt, G. F. Gilmore, C. A. Tout +1
First Stellar Abundances in NGC 6822 from VLT-UVES and Keck-HIRES Spectroscopy
K. A. Venn, D. J. Lennon, A. Kaufer +6
The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Observations centered on the Magellanic Cloud clusters NGC 330, NGC 346, NGC 2004, and the N11 region
C. J. Evans, D. J. Lennon, S. J. Smartt +1
Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm
G. Terreran, M. L. Pumo, T. -W. Chen +41
Constraints on explosive silicon burning in core-collapse supernovae from measured Ni/Fe ratios
A. Jerkstrand, F. X. Timmes, G. Magkotsios +7
Classical novae from the POINT-AGAPE microlensing survey of M31 -- II. Rate and statistical characteristics of the nova population
M. J. Darnley, M. F. Bode, E. Kerins +17
The early detection and follow-up of the highly obscured Type II supernova 2016ija/DLT16am
L. Tartaglia, D. J. Sand, S. Valenti +45
An Early-Time Infrared and Optical Study of the Type Ia Supernova 1998bu in M96
M. Hernandez, W. P. S. Meikle, A. Aparicio +22
The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars
C. J. Evans, I. Hunter, S. J. Smartt +12
GALEX Detection of Shock Breakout in Type II-P Supernova PS1-13arp: Implications for the Progenitor Star Wind
S. Gezari, D. O. Jones, N. E. Sanders +23
A supernova distance to the anchor galaxy NGC 4258
J. Polshaw, R. Kotak, K. C. Chambers +8
The Chemical Composition of Two Supergiants in the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy WLM
K. A. Venn, E. Tolstoy, A. Kaufer +5
Type II supernovae in low luminosity host galaxies
C. P. Gutiérrez, J. P. Anderson, M. Sullivan +29
The Yellow Supergiant Progenitor of the Type II Supernova 2011dh in M51
J. R. Maund, M. Fraser, M. Ergon +11
The UV-bright, Slowly Declining Transient PS1-11af as a Partial Tidal Disruption Event
R. Chornock, E. Berger, S. Gezari +34
PS1-10bzj: A Fast, Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova in a Metal Poor Host Galaxy
R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +26
SN 2005cs in M51 II. Complete Evolution in the Optical and the Near-Infrared
A. Pastorello, S. Valenti, L. Zampieri +31
The Progenitor of SN 2005cs in the Whirlpool Galaxy
J. R. Maund, S. J. Smartt, I. J. Danziger
The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: Nitrogen abundances for Be-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds
P. R. Dunstall, I. Brott, P. L. Dufton +4
The empirical metallicity dependence of the mass-loss rate of O- and early B-type stars
M. R. Mokiem, A. de Koter, J. S. Vink +9
The Point-Agape survey: 4 high signal-to-noise ratio microlensing candidates detected towards M31
S. Paulin-Henriksson, P. Baillon, A. Bouquet +12
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. IV. Transitional Type Ibn Supernovae
A. Pastorello, S. Benetti, P. J. Brown +30
Ruling out a massive-assymptoic giant-branch star as the progenitor of supernova 2005cs
J. J. Eldridge, S. Mattila, S. J. Smartt
SN 2009ib: A Type II-P Supernova with an Unusually Long Plateau
K. Takats, G. Pignata, M. L. Pumo +18
Chemical abundances in the inner 5 kpc of the Galactic disk
S. J. Smartt, K. A. Venn, P. L. Dufton +3
The Type IIb SN 2011dh - Two years of observations and modelling of the lightcurves
M. Ergon, A. Jerkstrand, J. Sollerman +14
Long-duration superluminous supernovae at late times
A. Jerkstrand, S. J. Smartt, C. Inserra +13
Core-collapse supernovae in low-metallicity environments and future all-sky transient surveys
D. R. Young, S. J. Smartt, S. Mattila +5
On the progenitor of the Type Ic supernova 2002ap
S. J. Smartt, P. M. Vreeswijk, E. Ramirez-Ruiz +4
The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Stellar parameters and rotational velocities in NGC3293, NGC4755 and NGC6611
P. L. Dufton, S. J. Smartt, J. K. Lee +8
A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85
A. Pastorello, M. Della Valle, S. J. Smartt +8
The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
K. C. Chambers, E. A. Magnier, N. Metcalfe +123
A nearby superluminous supernova with a long pre-maximum 'plateau' and strong CII features
J. P. Anderson, P. J. Pessi, L. Dessart +63
Spectropolarimetry of superluminous supernovae: insight into their geometry
C. Inserra, M. Bulla, S. A. Sim +1
Chemical composition of B-type supergiants in the OB8, OB10, OB48, OB78 associations of M31
C. Trundle, P. L. Dufton, D. J. Lennon +2
The death of massive stars - I. Observational constraints on the progenitors of type II-P supernovae
S. J. Smartt, J. J. Eldridge, R. M. Crockett +1
Supplement: Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914
B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538
On the diversity of super-luminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor
M. Nicholl, S. J. Smartt, A. Jerkstrand +37
The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: Mass loss and rotation of early-type stars in the SMC
M. R. Mokiem, A. de Koter, C. J. Evans +9
PS1-10afx at z=1.388: Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of a New Type of Superluminous Supernova
Ryan Chornock, E. Berger, A. Rest +32
The ING Instrumentation Conference Discussion, Options for a Competitive Observatory
N. A. Walton, S. J. Smartt
Two Type Ic supernovae in low-metallicity, dwarf galaxies: diversity of explosions
D. R. Young, S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti +15
The multi-faceted Type II-L supernova 2014G from pre-maximum to nebular phase
G. Terreran, A. Jerkstrand, S. Benetti +18
POINT-AGAPE Pixel Lensing Survey of M31 : Evidence for a MACHO contribution to Galactic Halos
S. Calchi Novati, S. Paulin-Henriksson, J. An +15
A population of highly energetic transient events in the centres of active galaxies
E. Kankare, R. Kotak, S. Mattila +25
Superluminous supernova progenitors have a half-solar metallicity threshold
T. -W. Chen, S. J. Smartt, R. M. Yates +5
SN 2008S: an electron capture SN from a super-AGB progenitor?
M. T. Botticella, A. Pastorello, S. J. Smartt +31
Dead or Alive? Long-term evolution of SN 2015bh (SNhunt275)
N. Elias-Rosa, A. Pastorello, S. Benetti +37
Interpreting signals from astrophysical transient experiments
P. T. O'Brien, S. J. Smartt
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. II. The transitional case of SN 2005la
A. Pastorello, R. M. Quimby, S. J. Smartt +7
SN 2004A: Another Type II-P Supernova with a Red Supergiant Progenitor
M. A. Hendry, S. J. Smartt, R. M. Crockett +8
Progenitor candidate for the type II-P supernova SN 2018aoq in NGC 4151
D. O'Neill, R. Kotak, M. Fraser +9
The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and First Data Release
Ryan J. Foley, Daniel Scolnic, Armin Rest +25
LSQ13fn: A type II-Plateau supernova with a possibly low metallicity progenitor that breaks the standardised candle relation
J. Polshaw, R. Kotak, L. Dessart +20
Slow blue nuclear hypervariables in PanSTARRS-1
A. Lawrence, A. G. Bruce, C. MacLeod +23
Rapidly-Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1
M. R. Drout, R. Chornock, A. M. Soderberg +33
The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the Super-Luminous Supernova PTF12dam
T. -W. Chen, S. J. Smartt, A. Jerkstrand +14
On the nature of the progenitors of three type II-P supernovae: 2004et, 2006my and 2006ov
R. M. Crockett, S. J. Smartt, A. Pastorello +4
The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Observations in the Galactic Clusters NGC 3293, NGC 4755 and NGC 6611
C. J. Evans, S. J. Smartt, J. -K. Lee +23
Gemini observations of Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Local Group Starburst Galaxy IC10
P. A. Crowther, L. Drissen, J. B. Abbott +2
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events
A. Pastorello, S. Mattila, L. Zampieri +26
PS1-14bj: A Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova With a Long Rise and Slow Decay
R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +27
OGLE16aaa - a Signature of a Hungry Super Massive Black Hole
Åukasz Wyrzykowski, M. ZieliÅski, Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska +22
On type IIn/Ia-CSM supernovae as exemplified by SN 2012ca
C. Inserra, M. Fraser, S. J. Smartt +15
The evolutionary status of Sher25 - implications for blue supergiants and the progenitor of SN1987A
S. J. Smartt, D. J. Lennon, R. P. Kudritzki +3
Super-luminous supernovae from PESSTO
M. Nicholl, S. J. Smartt, A. Jerkstrand +29
Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernovae and Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts Have Similar Host Galaxies
R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +27
A Short Timescale Candidate Microlensing Event in the POINT-AGAPE Pixel Lensing Survey of M31
M. Auriere, P. Baillon, A. Bouquet +14
Multiple Major Outbursts from a Restless Luminous Blue Variable in NGC 3432
A. Pastorello, M. T. Botticella, C. Trundle +16
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
C. J. Evans, N. Bastian, Y. Beletsky +28
Chemical abundances and winds of massive stars in M31: a B-type supergiant and a WC star in OB10
S. J. Smartt, P. A. Crowther, P. L. Dufton +5
A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic Supernova 2002ap
R. M. Crockett, S. J. Smartt, J. J. Eldridge +6
The type Iax supernova, SN 2015H: a white dwarf deflagration candidate
M. R. Magee, R. Kotak, S. A. Sim +22
Faint Supernovae and Supernova Impostors: Case studies of SN2002kg/NGC2403-V37 and SN 2003gm
J. R. Maund, S. J. Smartt, R. -P. Kudritzki +6
VLT detection of a red supergiant progenitor of the type IIP supernova 2008bk
S. Mattila, S. J. Smartt, J. J. Eldridge +3
The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds
I. Hunter, D. J. Lennon, P. L. Dufton +5
A Candidate M31/M32 Intergalactic Microlensing Event
S. Paulin-Henriksson, P. Baillon, A. Bouquet +13
Measuring Dark Energy Properties with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. II. Cosmological Parameters
D. O. Jones, D. M. Scolnic, A. G. Riess +25
A comparison between star formation rate diagnostics and rate of core collapse supernovae within 11 Mpc
M. T. Botticella, S. J. Smartt, R. C. Kennicutt +3
Mass limits for the progenitor star of supernova 2001du and other type II-P supernovae
S. J. Smartt, J. R. Maund, G. F. Gilmore +3
The ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog
J. L. Tonry, L. Denneau, H. Flewelling +6
Seeing double: the frequency and detectability of double-peaked superluminous supernova light curves
M. Nicholl, S. J. Smartt
The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: NGC346-013 as a test case for massive close binary evolution
B. W. Ritchie, V. E. Stroud, C. J. Evans +5
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. V. Observations of the slow-evolving SN Ibn OGLE-2012-SN-006
A. Pastorello, L. Wyrzykowski, S. Valenti +36
Supernova 2012ec: Identification of the progenitor and early monitoring with PESSTO
J. R. Maund, M. Fraser, S. J. Smartt +13
The blue supergiant Sher 25 and its intriguing hourglass nebula
M. A. Hendry, S. J. Smartt, E. D. Skillman +5
The POINT-AGAPE Survey I: The Variable Stars in M31
Jin H. An, N. W. Evans, P. Hewett +14