Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS MRIA: Publications

The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds

(2007)

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I Hunter, DJ Lennon, PL Dufton, C Trundle, S Simon-Diaz, SJ Smartt, RSI Ryans, CJ Evans

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The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: rotation and nitrogen enrichment as the key to understanding massive star evolution

(2007)

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I Hunter, I Brott, DJ Lennon, N Langer, PL Dufton, C Trundle, SJ Smartt, A de Koter, CJ Evans, RSI Ryans

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A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic supernova 2002ap

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 381:2 (2007) 835-850

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RM Crockett, SJ Smartt, JJ Eldridge, S Mattila, DR Young, A Pastorello, JR Maund, CR Benn, I Skillen

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A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85

(2007)

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A Pastorello, M Della Valle, SJ Smartt, L Zampieri, S Benetti, E Cappellaro, P Mazzali, F Patat, S Spiro, M Turatto, S Valenti

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A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85.

Nature 449:7164 (2007) E1-E2

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A Pastorello, M Della Valle, SJ Smartt, L Zampieri, S Benetti, E Cappellaro, PA Mazzali, F Patat, S Spiro, M Turatto, S Valenti

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An anomalous transient in the early Hubble-type (S0) galaxy Messier 85 (M85) in the Virgo cluster was discovered by Kulkarni et al. on 7 January 2006 that had very low luminosity (peak absolute R-band magnitude M(R) of about -12) that was constant over more than 80 days, red colour and narrow spectral lines, which seem inconsistent with those observed in any known class of transient events. Kulkarni et al. suggest an exotic stellar merger as the possible origin. An alternative explanation is that the transient in M85 was a type II-plateau supernova of extremely low luminosity, exploding in a lenticular galaxy with residual star-forming activity. This intriguing transient might be the faintest supernova that has ever been discovered.

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A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic supernova 2002ap

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A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85

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The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: atmospheric parameters and rotational velocity distributions for B-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds

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The VLT-FLAMES survey of massive stars: rotation and nitrogen enrichment as the key to understanding massive star evolution

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A deeper search for the progenitor of the Type Ic supernova 2002ap

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A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85

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A very faint core-collapse supernova in M85.

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