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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

Luminous red novae: Stellar mergers or giant eruptions?⋆

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 630 (2019) a75

Authors:

A Pastorello, E Mason, S Taubenberger, M Fraser, G Cortini, L Tomasella, MT Botticella, N Elias-Rosa, R Kotak, SJ Smartt, S Benetti, E Cappellaro, M Turatto, L Tartaglia, SG Djorgovski, AJ Drake, M Berton, F Briganti, J Brimacombe, F Bufano, Y-Z Cai, S Chen, EJ Christensen, F Ciabattari, E Congiu, A Dimai, C Inserra, E Kankare, L Magill, K Maguire, F Martinelli, A Morales-Garoffolo, P Ochner, G Pignata, A Reguitti, J Sollerman, S Spiro, G Terreran, DE Wright
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SN 2016gsd: An unusually luminous and linear type II supernova with high velocities

(2019)

Authors:

TM Reynolds, M Fraser, S Mattila, M Ergon, P Lundqvist, L Dessart, Subo Dong, N Elias-Rosa, L Galbany, CP Gutiérrez, T Kangas, E Kankare, R Kotak, H Kuncarayakti, A Pastorello, O Rodriguez, SJ Smartt, M Stritzinger, L Tomasella, Ping Chen, J Harmanen, G Hozzeinzadeh, D Andrew Howell, C Inserra, M Nicholl, M Nielsen, K Smith, A Somero, R Tronsgaard, DR Young
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1ES 1927+654: An AGN Caught Changing Look on a Timescale of Months

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 883:1 (2019) 94

Authors:

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Iair Arcavi, Chelsea L MacLeod, Claudio Ricci, Erin Kara, Melissa L Graham, Daniel Stern, Fiona A Harrison, Jamison Burke, Daichi Hiramatsu, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, D Andrew Howell, Stephen J Smartt, Armin Rest, Jose L Prieto, Benjamin J Shappee, Thomas W-S Holoien, David Bersier, Alexei V Filippenko, Thomas G Brink, WeiKang Zheng, Ruancun Li, Ronald A Remillard, Michael Loewenstein
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The rise and fall of an extraordinary Ca-rich transient -- The discovery of ATLAS19dqr/SN 2019bkc

(2019)

Authors:

SJ Prentice, K Maguire, A Flörs, S Taubenberger, C Inserra, C Frohmaier, TW Chen, JP Anderson, C Ashall, P Clark, M Fraser, L Galbany, A Gal-Yam, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, PA James, PG Jonker, E Kankare, G Leloudas, MR Magee, PA Mazzali, M Nicholl, M Pursiainen, K Skillen, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, C Vogl, DR Young
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The tidal disruption event AT2017eqx: spectroscopic evolution from hydrogen rich to poor suggests an atmosphere and outflow

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 488:2 (2019) 1878-1893

Authors:

M Nicholl, PK Blanchard, E Berger, S Gomez, R Margutti, KD Alexander, J Guillochon, J Leja, R Chornock, B Snios, K Auchettl, AG Bruce, P Challis, DJ D’Orazio, MR Drout, T Eftekhari, RJ Foley, O Graur, CD Kilpatrick, A Lawrence, AL Piro, C Rojas-Bravo, NP Ross, P Short, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, B Stalder
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