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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS MRIA

Professor of Astrophysics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • Rubin-LSST
stephen.smartt@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865273405
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 714
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  • Publications

Super-SNID: An Expanded Set of SNID Classes and Templates for the New Era of Wide-field Surveys

Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society American Astronomical Society 9:4 (2025) 78

Authors:

Dylan Magill, Michael D Fulton, Matt Nicholl, Stephen J Smartt, Charlotte R Angus, Shubham Srivastav, Ken W Smith

Abstract:

We present an expanded template library for the supernova identification (SNID) software, along with updated source files that make it easy to merge our templates—and other major SNID libraries—into the base code. This expansion, dubbed “Super-SNID,” increases the number of spectra for under-represented supernova classes (e.g., SNe Ia-02cx, Ibn) and adds new classes (e.g., SLSNe, TDEs, LFBOTs). Super-SNID includes 841 spectral templates for 161 objects, primarily from the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects Data Releases 1–4. The library is available on GitHub with simple installation instructions.
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Discovery and Extensive Follow-up of SN 2024ggi, a Nearby Type IIP Supernova in NGC 3621

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 983:1 (2025) 86

Authors:

Ting-Wan Chen, Sheng Yang, Shubham Srivastav, Takashi J Moriya, Stephen J Smartt, Sofia Rest, Armin Rest, Hsing Wen Lin, Hao-Yu Miao, Yu-Chi Cheng, Amar Aryan, Chia-Yu Cheng, Morgan Fraser, Li-Ching Huang, Meng-Han Lee, Cheng-Han Lai, Yu-Hsuan Liu, Aiswarya Sankar.K, Ken W Smith, Heloise F Stevance, Ze-Ning Wang, Joseph P Anderson, Charlotte R Angus, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth Chambers, Hao-Yuan Duan, Nicolas Erasmus, Michael Fulton, Hua Gao, Joanna Herman, Wei-Jie Hou, Hsiang-Yao Hsiao, Mark E Huber, Chien-Cheng Lin, Hung-Chin Lin, Eugene A Magnier, Ka Kit Man, Thomas Moore, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Matt Nicholl, Po-Sheng Ou, Giuliano Pignata, Yu-Chien Shiau, Julian Silvester Sommer, John L Tonry, Xiao-Feng Wang, Richard Wainscoat, David R Young, You-Ting Yeh, Jujia Zhang
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The Radio Counterpart to the Fast X-Ray Transient EP240414a

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 981:1 (2025) 48

Authors:

Joe S Bright, Francesco Carotenuto, Rob Fender, Carmen Choza, Andrew Mummery, Peter G Jonker, Stephen J Smartt, David R DeBoer, Wael Farah, James Matthews, Alexander W Pollak, Lauren Rhodes, Andrew Siemion
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A study in scarlet

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 695 (2025) a43

Authors:

G Valerin, A Pastorello, E Mason, A Reguitti, S Benetti, Y-Z Cai, T-W Chen, D Eappachen, N Elias-Rosa, M Fraser, A Gangopadhyay, EY Hsiao, DA Howell, C Inserra, L Izzo, J Jencson, E Kankare, R Kotak, P Lundqvist, PA Mazzali, K Misra, G Pignata, SJ Prentice, DJ Sand, SJ Smartt, MD Stritzinger, L Tartaglia, S Valenti, JP Anderson, JE Andrews, RC Amaro, C Barbarino, S Brennan, F Bufano, E Callis, E Cappellaro, R Dastidar, M Della Valle, A Fiore, MD Fulton, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, T Heikkilä, D Hiramatsu, E Karamehmetoglu, H Kuncarayakti, G Leloudas, M Limongi, M Lundquist, C McCully, TE Müller-Bravo, M Nicholl, P Ochner, E Padilla Gonzalez, E Paraskeva, C Pellegrino, A Rau, DE Reichart, TM Reynolds, R Roy, I Salmaso, M Shahbandeh, M Singh, J Sollerman, M Turatto, L Tomasella, S Wyatt, DR Young
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A study in scarlet

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 695 (2025) a42

Authors:

G Valerin, A Pastorello, A Reguitti, S Benetti, Y-Z Cai, T-W Chen, D Eappachen, N Elias-Rosa, M Fraser, A Gangopadhyay, EY Hsiao, DA Howell, C Inserra, L Izzo, J Jencson, E Kankare, R Kotak, PA Mazzali, K Misra, G Pignata, SJ Prentice, DJ Sand, SJ Smartt, MD Stritzinger, L Tartaglia, S Valenti, JP Anderson, JE Andrews, RC Amaro, S Brennan, F Bufano, E Callis, E Cappellaro, R Dastidar, M Della Valle, A Fiore, MD Fulton, L Galbany, T Heikkilä, D Hiramatsu, E Karamehmetoglu, H Kuncarayakti, G Leloudas, M Lundquist, C McCully, TE Müller-Bravo, M Nicholl, P Ochner, E Padilla Gonzalez, E Paraskeva, C Pellegrino, A Rau, DE Reichart, TM Reynolds, R Roy, I Salmaso, M Singh, M Turatto, L Tomasella, S Wyatt, DR Young
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