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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

Revealing the Progenitor of SN 2021zby through Analysis of the TESS Shock-cooling Light Curve

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 943:2 (2023) l15

Authors:

Qinan Wang, Patrick Armstrong, Yossef Zenati, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Armin Rest, Iair Arcavi, Charles D Kilpatrick, Ryan J Foley, Brad E Tucker, Chris Lidman, Thomas L Killestein, Melissa Shahbandeh, Joseph P Anderson, Rodrigo Angulo, Chris Ashall, Jamison Burke, Ting-Wan Chen, Sophie von Coelln, Kyle A Dalrymple, Kyle W Davis, Michael D Fulton, Lluís Galbany, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Bore Gao, Mariusz Gromadzki, D Andrew Howell, Nada Ihanec, Jacob E Jencson, David O Jones, Joseph D Lyman, Curtis McCully, Tomás E Müller-Bravo, Megan Newsome, Matt Nicholl, David O’Neill, Craig Pellegrino, Sofia Rest, Stephen J Smartt, Ken Smith, Shubham Srivastav, Giacomo Terreran, Samaporn Tinyanont, David R Young, Alfredo Zenteno
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The Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2022ilv and Its Early Excess Emission

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 943:2 (2023) l20

Authors:

Shubham Srivastav, SJ Smartt, ME Huber, G Dimitriadis, KC Chambers, Michael D Fulton, Thomas Moore, FP Callan, James H Gillanders, K Maguire, M Nicholl, Luke J Shingles, SA Sim, KW Smith, JP Anderson, Thomas de Boer, Ting-Wan Chen, Hua Gao, DR Young
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Day-timescale variability in the radio light curve of the Tidal Disruption Event AT2022cmc: confirmation of a highly relativistic outflow

(2023)

Authors:

L Rhodes, JS Bright, R Fender, I Sfaradi, DA Green, A Horesh, K Mooley, D Pasham, S Smartt, DJ Titterington, AJ van der Horst, DRA Williams
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The optical light curve of GRB 221009A: the afterglow and the emerging supernova

(2023)

Authors:

MD Fulton, SJ Smartt, L Rhodes, ME Huber, AV Villar, T Moore, S Srivastav, ASB Schultz, KC Chambers, L Izzo, J Hjorth, T-W Chen, M Nicholl, RJ Foley, A Rest, KW Smith, DR Young, SA Sim, J Bright, Y Zenati, T de Boer, J Bulger, J Fairlamb, H Gao, C-C Lin, T Lowe, EA Magnier, IA Smith, R Wainscoat, DA Coulter, DO Jones, CD Kilpatrick, P McGill, E Ramirez-Ruiz, K-S Lee, G Narayan, V Ramakrishnan, R Ridden-Harper, A Singh, Q Wang, AKH Kong, C-C Ngeow, Y-C Pan, S Yang, KW Davis, AL Piro, C Rojas-Bravo, J Sommer, SK Yadavalli
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The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole

Nature Astronomy Springer Nature 7:1 (2023) 88-104

Authors:

Dheeraj R Pasham, Matteo Lucchini, Tanmoy Laskar, Benjamin P Gompertz, Shubham Srivastav, Matt Nicholl, Stephen J Smartt, James CA Miller-Jones, Kate D Alexander, Rob Fender, Graham P Smith, M Fulton, Gulab Dewangan, Keith Gendreau, Eric R Coughlin, Lauren Rhodes, Assaf Horesh, Sjoert van Velzen, Itai Sfaradi, Muryel Guolo, Noel Castro Segura, Aysha Aamer, Joseph P Anderson, Iair Arcavi, Seán J Brennan, Kenneth Chambers, Panos Charalampopoulos, Ting-Wan Chen, A Clocchiatti, Thomas de Boer, Michel Dennefeld, Elizabeth Ferrara, Lluís Galbany, Hua Gao, James H Gillanders, Adelle Goodwin, Mariusz Gromadzki, M Huber, Peter G Jonker, Manasvita Joshi, Erin Kara, Thomas L Killestein, Peter Kosec, Daniel Kocevski, Giorgos Leloudas, Chien-Cheng Lin, Raffaella Margutti, Seppo Mattila, Thomas Moore, Tomás Müller-Bravo, Chow-Choong Ngeow, Samantha Oates, Francesca Onori, Yen-Chen Pan, Miguel Perez-Torres, Priyanka Rani, Ronald Remillard, Evan J Ridley, Steve Schulze, Xinyue Sheng, Luke Shingles, Ken W Smith, James F Steiner, Richard Wainscoat, Thomas Wevers, Sheng Yang
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