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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

SN 2023zaw: The Low-energy Explosion of an Ultrastripped Star

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 980:2 (2025) l44

Authors:

T Moore, JH Gillanders, M Nicholl, ME Huber, SJ Smartt, S Srivastav, HF Stevance, T-W Chen, KC Chambers, JP Anderson, MD Fulton, SR Oates, C Angus, G Pignata, N Erasmus, H Gao, J Herman, C-C Lin, T Lowe, EA Magnier, P Minguez, C-C Ngeow, X Sheng, SA Sim, KW Smith, R Wainscoat, S Yang, DR Young, K-J Zeng
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Analysis of the JWST spectra of the kilonova AT 2023vfi accompanying GRB 230307A

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025) staf287

Authors:

JH Gillanders, SJ Smartt
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ATClean: A Novel Method for Detecting Low-luminosity Transients and Application to Pre-explosion Counterparts from SN 2023ixf

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 979:2 (2025) 114

Authors:

S Rest, A Rest, CD Kilpatrick, JE Jencson, S von Coelln, L Strolger, S Smartt, JP Anderson, A Clocchiatti, DA Coulter, L Denneau, S Gomez, A Heinze, R Ridden-Harper, KW Smith, B Stalder, JL Tonry, Q Wang, Y Zenati
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Identification of the Optical Counterpart of the Fast X-Ray Transient EP240414a

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 978:2 (2025) l21

Authors:

S Srivastav, T-W Chen, JH Gillanders, L Rhodes, SJ Smartt, ME Huber, A Aryan, S Yang, A Beri, AJ Cooper, M Nicholl, KW Smith, HF Stevance, F Carotenuto, KC Chambers, A Aamer, CR Angus, MD Fulton, T Moore, IA Smith, DR Young, T de Boer, H Gao, C-C Lin, T Lowe, EA Magnier, P Minguez, Y-C Pan, RJ Wainscoat
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Double “acct”: A Distinct Double-peaked Supernova Matching Pulsational Pair Instability Models

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 977:2 (2024) l41

Authors:

CR Angus, SE Woosley, RJ Foley, M Nicholl, VA Villar, K Taggart, M Pursiainen, P Ramsden, S Srivastav, HF Stevance, T Moore, K Auchettl, WB Hoogendam, N Khetan, SK Yadavalli, G Dimitriadis, A Gagliano, MR Siebert, A Aamer, T de Boer, KC Chambers, A Clocchiatti, DA Coulter, MR Drout, D Farias, MD Fulton, C Gall, H Gao, L Izzo, DO Jones, C-C Lin, EA Magnier, G Narayan, E Ramirez-Ruiz, CL Ransome, A Rest, SJ Smartt, KW Smith
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