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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

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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NEural Engine for Discovering Luminous Events (NEEDLE): identifying rare transient candidates in real time from host galaxy images

(2023)

Authors:

Xinyue Sheng, Matt Nicholl, Ken W Smith, David R Young, Roy D Williams, Heloise F Stevance, Stephen J Smartt, Shubham Srivastav, Thomas Moore
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SN 2023emq: A Flash-ionized Ibn Supernova with Possible C iii Emission

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 959:1 (2023) l10

Authors:

M Pursiainen, G Leloudas, S Schulze, P Charalampopoulos, CR Angus, JP Anderson, F Bauer, T-W Chen, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, C Inserra, J Lyman, TE Müller-Bravo, M Nicholl, SJ Smartt, L Tartaglia, P Wiseman, DR Young
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Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

Nature Springer Nature 623:7989 (2023) 927-931

Authors:

Anna YQ Ho, Daniel A Perley, Ping Chen, Steve Schulze, Vik Dhillon, Harsh Kumar, Aswin Suresh, Vishwajeet Swain, Michael Bremer, Stephen J Smartt, Joseph P Anderson, GC Anupama, Supachai Awiphan, Sudhanshu Barway, Eric C Bellm, Sagi Ben-Ami, Varun Bhalerao, Thomas de Boer, Thomas G Brink, Rick Burruss, Poonam Chandra, Ting-Wan Chen, Wen-Ping Chen, Jeff Cooke, Michael W Coughlin, Kaustav K Das, Andrew J Drake, Alexei V Filippenko, James Freeburn, Christoffer Fremling, Michael D Fulton, Avishay Gal-Yam, Lluís Galbany, Hua Gao, Matthew J Graham, Mariusz Gromadzki, Claudia P Gutiérrez, K-Ryan Hinds, Cosimo Inserra, Nayana A J, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M Kasliwal, Shri Kulkarni, Tomás E Müller-Bravo, Eugene A Magnier, Ashish A Mahabal, Thomas Moore, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Matt Nicholl, Eran O Ofek, Conor MB Omand, Francesca Onori, Yen-Chen Pan, Priscila J Pessi, Glen Petitpas, David Polishook, Saran Poshyachinda, Miika Pursiainen, Reed Riddle, Antonio C Rodriguez, Ben Rusholme, Enrico Segre, Yashvi Sharma, Ken W Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Shubham Srivastav, Nora Linn Strotjohann, Mark Suhr, Dmitry Svinkin, Yanan Wang, Philip Wiseman, Avery Wold, Sheng Yang, Yi Yang, Yuhan Yao, David R Young, WeiKang Zheng
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Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities

(2023)

Authors:

Anna YQ Ho, Daniel A Perley, Ping Chen, Steve Schulze, Vik Dhillon, Harsh Kumar, Aswin Suresh, Vishwajeet Swain, Michael Bremer, Stephen J Smartt, Joseph P Anderson, GC Anupama, Supachai Awiphan, Sudhanshu Barway, Eric C Bellm, Sagi Ben-Ami, Varun Bhalerao, Thomas de Boer, Thomas G Brink, Rick Burruss, Poonam Chandra, Ting-Wan Chen, Wen-Ping Chen, Jeff Cooke, Michael W Coughlin, Kaustav K Das, Andrew J Drake, Alexei V Filippenko, James Freeburn, Christoffer Fremling, Michael D Fulton, Avishay Gal-Yam, Lluís Galbany, Hua Gao, Matthew J Graham, Mariusz Gromadzki, Claudia P Gutiérrez, K-Ryan Hinds, Cosimo Inserra, Nayana A J., Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M Kasliwal, Shri Kulkarni, Tomás E Müller-Bravo, Eugene A Magnier, Ashish A Mahabal, Thomas Moore, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Matt Nicholl, Eran O Ofek, Conor MB Omand, Francesca Onori, Yen-Chen Pan, Priscila J Pessi, Glen Petitpas, David Polishook, Saran Poshyachinda, Miika Pursiainen, Reed Riddle, Antonio C Rodriguez, Ben Rusholme, Enrico Segre, Yashvi Sharma, Ken W Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Shubham Srivastav, Nora Linn Strotjohann, Mark Suhr, Dmitry Svinkin, Yanan Wang, Philip Wiseman, Avery Wold, Sheng Yang, Yi Yang, Yuhan Yao, David R Young, WeiKang Zheng
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