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Black Hole

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

An ultraviolet–optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core

Nature Springer Nature 485:7397 (2012) 217-220

Authors:

S Gezari, R Chornock, A Rest, ME Huber, K Forster, E Berger, PJ Challis, JD Neill, DC Martin, T Heckman, A Lawrence, C Norman, G Narayan, RJ Foley, GH Marion, D Scolnic, L Chomiuk, A Soderberg, K Smith, RP Kirshner, AG Riess, SJ Smartt, CW Stubbs, JL Tonry, WM Wood-Vasey, WS Burgett, KC Chambers, T Grav, JN Heasley, N Kaiser, R-P Kudritzki, EA Magnier, JS Morgan, PA Price
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A SPECTROSCOPICALLY NORMAL TYPE Ic SUPERNOVA FROM A VERY MASSIVE PROGENITOR

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 749:2 (2012) l28

Authors:

Stefano Valenti, Stefan Taubenberger, Andrea Pastorello, Levon Aramyan, Maria Teresa Botticella, Morgan Fraser, Stefano Benetti, Stephen J Smartt, Enrico Cappellaro, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Mattias Ergon, Lindsay Magill, Eugene Magnier, Rubina Kotak, Paul A Price, Jesper Sollerman, Lina Tomasella, Massimo Turatto, Darryl E Wright
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Red and dead: The progenitor of SN 2012aw in M95

(2012)

Authors:

M Fraser, JR Maund, SJ Smartt, M-T Botticella, M Dall'Ora, C Inserra, L Tomasella, S Benetti, S Ciroi, JJ Eldridge, M Ergon, R Kotak, S Mattila, P Ochner, A Pastorello, E Reilly, J Sollerman, A Stephens, F Taddia, S Valenti
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Constraining the physical properties of Type II-Plateau supernovae using nebular phase spectra

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 420:4 (2012) 3451-3468

Authors:

K Maguire, A Jerkstrand, SJ Smartt, C Fransson, A Pastorello, S Benetti, S Valenti, F Bufano, G Leloudas
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A spectroscopically normal type Ic supernova from a very massive progenitor

(2012)

Authors:

Stefano Valenti, Stefan Taubenberger, Andrea Pastorello, Levon Aramyan, Maria Teresa Botticella, Morgan Fraser, Stefano Benetti, Stephen J Smartt, Enrico Cappellaro, Nancy Elias-Rosa, Mattias Ergon, Lindsay Magill, Eugene Magnier, Rubina Kotak, Paul A Price, Jesper Sollerman, Lina Tomasella, Massimo Turatto, Darryl Edmund Wright -, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
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