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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.

Dr Shubham Srivastav

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys
shubham.srivastav@physics.ox.ac.uk
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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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Late-time H/He-poor Circumstellar Interaction in the Type Ic Supernova SN 2021ocs: An Exposed Oxygen–Magnesium Layer and Extreme Stripping of the Progenitor*

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 941:2 (2022) L32-L32

Authors:

H Kuncarayakti, K Maeda, L Dessart, T Nagao, M Fulton, CP Gutiérrez, ME Huber, DR Young, R Kotak, S Mattila, JP Anderson, L Ferrari, G Folatelli, H Gao, E Magnier, KW Smith, S Srivastav

Abstract:

Abstract Supernova (SN) 2021ocs was discovered in the galaxy NGC 7828 (z = 0.01911) within the interacting system Arp 144 and subsequently classified as a normal Type Ic SN around peak brightness. Very Large Telescope/FORS2 observations in the nebular phase at 148 days reveal that the spectrum is dominated by oxygen and magnesium emission lines of different transitions and ionization states: O i, [O i], [O ii], [O iii], Mg i, and Mg ii. Such a spectrum has no counterpart in the literature, though it bears a few features similar to those of some interacting Type Ibn and Icn SNe. Additionally, SN 2021ocs showed a blue color, (g − r) ≲ −0.5 mag, after the peak and up to late phases, atypical for a Type Ic SN. Together with the nebular spectrum, this suggests that SN 2021ocs underwent late-time interaction with an H/He-poor circumstellar medium (CSM) resulting from the pre-SN progenitor mass loss during its final ∼1000 days. The strong O and Mg lines and the absence of strong C and He lines suggest that the progenitor star’s O–Mg layer is exposed, which places SN 2021ocs as the most extreme case of a massive progenitor star’s envelope stripping in interacting SNe, followed by Type Icn (stripped C–O layer) and Ibn (stripped He-rich layer) SNe. This is the first time such a case is reported in the literature. The SN 2021ocs emphasizes the importance of late-time spectroscopy of SNe, even for those classified as normal events, to reveal the inner ejecta and progenitor star’s CSM and mass loss.
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The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole

(2022)

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, Michael D Fulton, Gulab Dewangan, Keith Gendreau, Eric R Coughlin, Lauren Rhodes, Assaf Horesh, Sjoert van Velzen, Itai Sfaradi, Muryel Guolo, N Castro Segura, Aysha Aamer, Joseph P Anderson, Iair Arcavi, Sean J Brennan, Kenneth Chambers, Panos Charalampopoulos, Ting-Wan Chen, A Clocchiatti, Thomas de Boer, Michel Dennefeld, Elizabeth Ferrara, Lluis 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, Tomas Muller-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 Steiner, Richard Wainscoat, Thomas Wevers, Sheng Yang
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The luminous type Ia supernova 2022ilv and its early excess emission

(2022)

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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Optical studies of a bright Type Iax supernova SN 2020rea

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 517:4 (2022) 5617-5626

Authors:

Mridweeka Singh, Kuntal Misra, Devendra K Sahu, Bhavya Ailawadhi, Anirban Dutta, D Andrew Howell, GC Anupama, K Azalee Bostroem, Jamison Burke, Raya Dastidar, Anjasha Gangopadhyay, Daichi Hiramatsu, Hyobin Im, Curtis McCully, Craig Pellegrino, Shubham Srivastav, Rishabh Singh Teja

Abstract:

ABSTRACTWe present optical photometric and spectroscopic analysis of a Type Iax supernova (SN) 2020rea situated at the brighter luminosity end of Type Iax supernovae (SNe). The light curve decline rate of SN 2020rea is Δm15(g)  = 1.31 ± 0.08 mag which is similar to SNe 2012Z and 2005hk. Modelling the pseudo-bolometric light curve with a radiation diffusion model yields a mass of 56Ni of 0.13 ± 0.01 M⊙ and an ejecta mass of 0.77$^{+0.11}_{-0.21}$ M⊙. Spectral features of SN 2020rea during the photospheric phase show good resemblance with SN 2012Z. TARDIS modelling of the early spectra of SN 2020rea reveals a dominance of Iron Group Elements (IGEs). The photospheric velocity of the Si ii line around maximum for SN 2020rea is ∼ 6500 km s−1 which is less than the measured velocity of the Fe ii line and indicates significant mixing. The observed physical properties of SN 2020rea match with the predictions of pure deflagration model of a Chandrasekhar mass C–O white dwarf. The metallicity of the host galaxy around the SN region is 12 + log(O/H)  = 8.56 ± 0.18 dex which is similar to that of SN 2012Z.
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