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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

GW190425: Pan-STARRS and ATLAS coverage of the skymap and limits on optical emission associated with FRB 20190425A

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 528:2 (2024) 2299-2307

Authors:

SJ Smartt, M Nicholl, S Srivastav, ME Huber, KC Chambers, KW Smith, DR Young, MD Fulton, JL Tonry, CW Stubbs, L Denneau, AJ Cooper, A Aamer, JP Anderson, A Andersson, J Bulger, T-W Chen, P Clark, T de Boer, H Gao, JH Gillanders, A Lawrence, CC Lin, TB Lowe, EA Magnier, P Minguez, T Moore, A Rest, L Shingles, R Siverd, IA Smith, B Stalder, HF Stevance, R Wainscoat, R Williams
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The fast transient AT 2023clx in the nearby LINER galaxy NGC 3799 as a tidal disruption of a very low-mass star

(2024)

Authors:

P Charalampopoulos, R Kotak, T Wevers, G Leloudas, T Kravtsov, M Pursiainen, P Ramsden, TM Reynolds, A Aamer, JP Anderson, I Arcavi, Y-Z Cai, T-W Chen, M Dennefeld, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, CP Guti'errez, N Ihanec, T Kangas, E Kankare, E Kool, A Lawrence, P Lundqvist, L Makrygianni, S Mattila, TE Müller-Bravo, M Nicholl, F Onori, A Sahu, SJ Smartt, J Sollerman, Y Wang, DR Young
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A precursor plateau and pre-maximum [O ii] emission in the superluminous SN2019szu: a pulsational pair-instability candidate

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 527:4 (2023) 11970-11995

Authors:

Aysha Aamer, Matt Nicholl, Anders Jerkstrand, Sebastian Gomez, Samantha R Oates, Stephen J Smartt, Shubham Srivastav, Giorgos Leloudas, Joseph P Anderson, Edo Berger, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth Chambers, Ting-Wan Chen, Lluís Galbany, Hua Gao, Benjamin P Gompertz, Maider González-Bañuelos, Mariusz Gromadzki, Claudia P Gutiérrez, Cosimo Inserra, Thomas B Lowe, Eugene A Magnier, Paolo A Mazzali, Thomas Moore, Tomás E Müller-Bravo, Miika Pursiainen, Armin Rest, Steve Schulze, Ken W Smith, Jacco H Terwel, Richard Wainscoat, David R Young
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XMM-Newton-discovered Fast X-ray Transients: host galaxies and limits on contemporaneous detections of optical counterparts

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 527:4 (2023) 11823-11839

Authors:

D Eappachen, PG Jonker, J Quirola-Vásquez, D Mata Sánchez, A Inkenhaag, AJ Levan, M Fraser, MAP Torres, FE Bauer, AA Chrimes, D Stern, MJ Graham, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, ME Ravasio, AI Zabludoff, M Yue, F Stoppa, DB Malesani, NC Stone, S Wen
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XMM-Newton-discovered Fast X-ray Transients: Host galaxies and limits on contemporaneous detections of optical counterparts

(2023)

Authors:

D Eappachen, PG Jonker, J Quirola-Vásquez, D Mata Sánchez, A Inkenhaag, AJ Levan, M Fraser, MAP Torres, FE Bauer, AA Chrimes, D Stern, MJ Graham, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, ME Ravasio, AI Zabludoff, M Yue, F Stoppa, DB Malesani, NC Stone, S Wen
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