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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.

Credit: ALAIN RIAZUELO, IAP/UPMC/CNRS. CLICK HERE TO VIEW MORE IMAGES.

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

Unprecedented early flux excess in the hybrid 02es-like type Ia supernova 2022ywc indicates interaction with circumstellar material

(2023)

Authors:

Shubham Srivastav, T Moore, M Nicholl, MR Magee, SJ Smartt, MD Fulton, SA Sim, JM Pollin, L Galbany, C Inserra, A Kozyreva, Takashi J Moriya, FP Callan, X Sheng, KW Smith, JS Sommer, JP Anderson, M Deckers, M Gromadzki, TE Müller-Bravo, G Pignata, A Rest, DR Young
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A Precursor Plateau and Pre-Maximum [O II] Emission in the Superluminous SN2019szu: A Pulsational Pair-Instability Candidate

(2023)

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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AT2022aedm and a new class of luminous, fast-cooling transients in elliptical galaxies

(2023)

Authors:

M Nicholl, S Srivastav, MD Fulton, S Gomez, ME Huber, SR Oates, P Ramsden, L Rhodes, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, A Aamer, JP Anderson, FE Bauer, E Berger, T de Boer, KC Chambers, P Charalampopoulos, T-W Chen, RP Fender, M Fraser, H Gao, DA Green, L Galbany, BP Gompertz, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, DA Howell, C Inserra, PG Jonker, M Kopsacheili, TB Lowe, EA Magnier, C McCully, SL McGee, T Moore, TE Müller-Bravo, M Newsome, E Padilla Gonzalez, C Pellegrino, T Pessi, M Pursiainen, A Rest, EJ Ridley, BJ Shappee, X Sheng, GP Smith, G Terreran, MA Tucker, J Vinkó, RJ Wainscoat, P Wiseman, DR Young
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JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger

(2023)

Authors:

A Levan, BP Gompertz, OS Salafia, M Bulla, E Burns, K Hotokezaka, L Izzo, GP Lamb, DB Malesani, SR Oates, ME Ravasio, A Rouco Escorial, B Schneider, N Sarin, S Schulze, NR Tanvir, K Ackley, G Anderson, GB Brammer, L Christensen, VS Dhillon, PA Evans, M Fausnaugh, W-F Fong, AS Fruchter, C Fryer, JPU Fynbo, N Gaspari, KE Heintz, J Hjorth, JA Kennea, MR Kennedy, T Laskar, G Leloudas, I Mandel, A Martin-Carrillo, BD Metzger, M Nicholl, A Nugent, JT Palmerio, G Pugliese, J Rastinejad, L Rhodes, A Rossi, SJ Smartt, HF Stevance, A Tohuvavohu, A van der Horst, SD Vergani, D Watson, T Barclay, K Bhirombhakdi, E Breedt, AA Breeveld, AJ Brown, S Campana, AA Chrimes, P D'Avanzo, V D'Elia, M De Pasquale, MJ Dyer, DK Galloway, JA Garbutt, MJ Green, DH Hartmann, P Jakobsson, P Kerry, D Langeroodi, JK Leung, SP Littlefair, J Munday, P O'Brien, SG Parsons, I Pelisoli, A Saccardi, DI Sahman, R Salvaterra, B Sbarufatti, D Steeghs, G Tagliaferri, CC Thöne, A de Ugarte Postigo, DA Kann
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SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: A Variable Red Supergiant as the Progenitor Candidate to a Type II Supernova

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 952:1 (2023) l23

Authors:

Charles D Kilpatrick, Ryan J Foley, Wynn V Jacobson-Galán, Anthony L Piro, Stephen J Smartt, Maria R Drout, Alexander Gagliano, Christa Gall, Jens Hjorth, David O Jones, Kaisey S Mandel, Raffaella Margutti, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Conor L Ransome, V Ashley Villar, David A Coulter, Hua Gao, David Jacob Matthews, Kirsty Taggart, Yossef Zenati
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