Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS MRIA: Publications

Modelling the spectra of the kilonova AT2017gfo – I. The photospheric epochs

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 515:1 (2022) 631-651

Authors:

JH Gillanders, SJ Smartt, SA Sim, A Bauswein, S Goriely

Observations of the luminous red nova AT 2021biy in the nearby galaxy NGC 4631

(2022)

Authors:

Y-Z Cai, A Pastorello, M Fraser, X-F Wang, AV Filippenko, A Reguitti, KC Patra, VP Goranskij, EA Barsukova, TG Brink, N Elias-Rosa, HF Stevance, W Zheng, Y Yang, KE Atapin, S Benetti, TJL de Boer, S Bose, J Burke, R Byrne, E Cappellaro, KC Chambers, W-L Chen, N Emami, H Gao, D Hiramatsu, DA Howell, ME Huber, E Kankare, PL Kelly, R Kotak, T Kravtsov, V Yu Lander, Z-T Li, C-C Lin, P Lundqvist, EA Magnier, EA Malygin, NA Maslennikova, K Matilainen, PA Mazzali, C McCully, J Mo, S Moran, M Newsome, DV Oparin, E Padilla Gonzalez, TM Reynolds, NI Shatsky, SJ Smartt, KW Smith, MD Stritzinger, AM Tatarnikov, G Terreran, RI Uklein, G Valerin, PJ Vallely, OV Vozyakova, R Wainscoat, S-Y Yan, J-J Zhang, T-M Zhang, SG Zheltoukhov, R Dastidar, M Fulton, L Galbany, A Gangopadhyay, H-W Ge, CP Gutiérrez, H Lin, K Misra, Z-W Ou, I Salmaso, L Tartaglia, L Xiao, X-H Zhang

Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu(Gaia16cfr)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 513:4 (2022) 5642-5665

Authors:

SJ Brennan, M Fraser, J Johansson, A Pastorello, R Kotak, HF Stevance, T-W Chen, JJ Eldridge, S Bose, PJ Brown, E Callis, R Cartier, M Dennefeld, Subo Dong, P Duffy, N Elias-Rosa, G Hosseinzadeh, E Hsiao, H Kuncarayakti, A Martin-Carrillo, B Monard, A Nyholm, G Pignata, D Sand, BJ Shappee, SJ Smartt, BE Tucker, L Wyrzykowski, H Abbot, S Benetti, J Bento, S Blondin, Ping Chen, A Delgado, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, L Hanlon, DL Harrison, D Hiramatsu, ST Hodgkin, TW-S Holoien, DA Howell, C Inserra, E Kankare, S Kozłowski, TE Müller-Bravo, K Maguire, C McCully, P Meintjes, N Morrell, M Nicholl, D O’Neill, P Pietrukowicz, R Poleski, JL Prieto, A Rau, DE Reichart, T Schweyer, M Shahbandeh, J Skowron, J Sollerman, I Soszyński, MD Stritzinger, M Szymański, L Tartaglia, A Udalski, K Ulaczyk, DR Young, M van Leeuwen, B van Soelen

Progenitor, environment, and modelling of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 513:4 (2022) 5666-5685

Authors:

SJ Brennan, M Fraser, J Johansson, A Pastorello, R Kotak, HF Stevance, T-W Chen, JJ Eldridge, S Bose, PJ Brown, E Callis, R Cartier, M Dennefeld, Subo Dong, P Duffy, N Elias-Rosa, G Hosseinzadeh, E Hsiao, H Kuncarayakti, A Martin-Carrillo, B Monard, G Pignata, D Sand, BJ Shappee, SJ Smartt, BE Tucker, L Wyrzykowski, H Abbot, S Benetti, J Bento, S Blondin, Ping Chen, A Delgado, L Galbany, M Gromadzki, CP Gutiérrez, L Hanlon, DL Harrison, D Hiramatsu, ST Hodgkin, TW-S Holoien, DA Howell, C Inserra, E Kankare, S Kozłowski, TE Müller-Bravo, K Maguire, C McCully, P Meintjes, N Morrell, M Nicholl, D O’Neill, P Pietrukowicz, R Poleski, JL Prieto, A Rau, DE Reichart, T Schweyer, M Shahbandeh, J Skowron, J Sollerman, I Soszyński, MD Stritzinger, M Szymański, L Tartaglia, A Udalski, K Ulaczyk, DR Young, M van Leeuwen, B van Soelen

Target-of-opportunity Observations of Gravitational-wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Astrophysical Journal: Supplement Series American Astronomical Society 260:1 (2022) 18-18

Authors:

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, Om Sharan Salafia, B Parazin, V Ashley Villar, Michael W Coughlin, Peter Yoachim, Kris Mortensen, Daniel Brethauer, SJ Smartt, Mansi M Kasliwal, Kate D Alexander, Shreya Anand, E Berger, Maria Grazia Bernardini, Federica B Bianco, Peter K Blanchard, Joshua S Bloom, Enzo Brocato, Mattia Bulla, Regis Cartier, S Bradley Cenko, Ryan Chornock, Christopher M Copperwheat, Alessandra Corsi

Abstract:

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multimessenger astronomy. Rapid identification of the optical/infrared kilonova enabled a precise localization of the source, which paved the way to deep multiwavelength follow-up and its myriad of related science results. Fully exploiting this new territory of exploration requires the acquisition of electromagnetic data from samples of NS mergers and other gravitational-wave sources. After GW170817, the frontier is now to map the diversity of kilonova properties and provide more stringent constraints on the Hubble constant, and enable new tests of fundamental physics. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time can play a key role in this field in the 2020s, when an improved network of gravitational-wave detectors is expected to reach a sensitivity that will enable the discovery of a high rate of merger events involving NSs (∼tens per year) out to distances of several hundred megaparsecs. We design comprehensive target-of-opportunity observing strategies for follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers that will make the Rubin Observatory the premier instrument for discovery and early characterization of NS and other compact-object mergers, and yet unknown classes of gravitational-wave events

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