Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS MRIA: Publications

SUPERNOVA 2009kf: AN ULTRAVIOLET BRIGHT TYPE IIP SUPERNOVA DISCOVERED WITH PAN-STARRS 1 AND GALEX

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 717:1 (2010) l52-l56

Authors:

MT Botticella, C Trundle, A Pastorello, S Rodney, A Rest, S Gezari, SJ Smartt, G Narayan, ME Huber, JL Tonry, D Young, K Smith, F Bresolin, S Valenti, R Kotak, S Mattila, E Kankare, WM Wood-Vasey, A Riess, JD Neill, K Forster, DC Martin, CW Stubbs, WS Burgett, KC Chambers, T Dombeck, H Flewelling, T Grav, JN Heasley, KW Hodapp, N Kaiser, R Kudritzki, G Luppino, RH Lupton, EA Magnier, DG Monet, JS Morgan, PM Onaka, PA Price, PH Rhoads, WA Siegmund, WE Sweeney, RJ Wainscoat, C Waters, MF Waterson, CG Wynn-Williams

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula survey

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Cambridge University Press (CUP) 6:S272 (2010) 296-297

Authors:

Daniel J Lennon, Christopher J Evans, Nate Bastian, Yuri Beletsky, Ines Brott, Matteo Cantiello, Giovanni Carraro, J Simon Clark, Paul A Crowther, Alex de Koter, Selma E de Mink, Philip L Dufton, Paul Dunstall, Mark Gieles, Goetz Gräfener, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Artemio Herrero, Ian D Howarth, Norbert Langer, Jesus Maíz Apellániz, Nevena Markova, F Paco Najarro, Joachim Puls, Hugues Sana, Sergio Simón-Díaz, Stephen J Smartt, Vanessa E Stroud, William D Taylor, Jacco T van Loon, Jorick S Vink, Nolan R Walborn

Multiple Major Outbursts from a Restless Luminous Blue Variable in NGC 3432

(2010)

Authors:

A Pastorello, MT Botticella, C Trundle, S Taubenberger, S Mattila, E Kankare, N Elias-Rosa, S Benetti, G Duszanowicz, L Hermansson, JE Beckman, F Bufano, M Fraser, A Harutyunyan, H Navasardyan, SJ Smartt, SD van Dyk, JS Vink, RM Wagner

Type II-P supernovae as standardized candles: Improvements using near-infrared data

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 403:1 (2010) L11-L15

Authors:

K Maguire, R Kotak, SJ Smartt, A Pastorello, M Hamuy, F Bufano

Abstract:

We present the first near-infrared Hubble diagram for Type II-P supernovae (SNe), to further explore their value as distance indicators. We use a modified version of the standardized candle method, which relies on the tight correlation between the absolute magnitudes of Type II-P SNe and their expansion velocities during the plateau phase. Although our sample contains only 12 II-P SNe and they are necessarily local (z < 0.02), we demonstrate using near-infrared JHK photometry that it may be possible to reduce the scatter in the Hubble diagram to 0.1-0.15 mag. While this is potentially similar to the dispersion seen for Type Ia SNe, we caution that this needs to be confirmed with a larger sample of II-P SNe in the Hubble flow. © 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2010 RAS.

Two type Ic supernovae in low-metallicity, dwarf galaxies: diversity of explosions

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 512 (2010) a70

Authors:

DR Young, SJ Smartt, S Valenti, A Pastorello, S Benetti, CR Benn, D Bersier, MT Botticella, RLM Corradi, AH Harutyunyan, M Hrudkova, I Hunter, S Mattila, EJW de Mooij, H Navasardyan, IAG Snellen, NR Tanvir, L Zampieri

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