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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

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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SN2018kzr: a rapidly declining transient from the destruction of a white dwarf

(2019)

Authors:

Owen R McBrien, Stephen J Smartt, Ting-Wan Chen, Cosimo Inserra, James H Gillanders, Stuart A Sim, Anders Jerkstrand, Armin Rest, Stefano Valenti, Rupak Roy, Mariusz Gromadzki, Stefan Taubenberger, Andreas Flörs, Mark E Huber, Ken C Chambers, Avishay Gal-Yam, David R Young, Matt Nicholl, Erkki Kankare, Ken W Smith, Kate Maguire, Ilya Mandel, Simon Prentice, Ósmar Rodríguez, Jonathon Pineda Garcia, Claudia P Gutiérrez, Lluís Galbany, Cristina Barbarino, Peter SJ Clark, Jesper Sollerman, Shrinivas R Kulkarni, Kishalay De, David AH Buckley, Arne Rau
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The Foundation Supernova Survey: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae from a Single Telescope

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 881:1 (2019) 19

Authors:

DO Jones, DM Scolnic, RJ Foley, A Rest, R Kessler, PM Challis, KC Chambers, DA Coulter, KG Dettman, MM Foley, ME Huber, SW Jha, E Johnson, CD Kilpatrick, RP Kirshner, J Manuel, G Narayan, Y-C Pan, AG Riess, ASB Schultz, MR Siebert, E Berger, R Chornock, H Flewelling, EA Magnier, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, RJ Wainscoat, C Waters, M Willman
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