Search Results - "Kochanek, C S"
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Overconstrained gravitational lens models and the Hubble constant
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT It is well known that measurements of H0 from gravitational lens time delays scale as H0 ∝ 1 − κE, where κE is the mean convergence at the Einstein…”
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The physics of flash (supernova) spectroscopy
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On the red supergiant problem
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-04-2020)“…ABSTRACT We examine the problem of estimating the mass range corresponding to the observed red supergiant (RSG) progenitors of Type IIP supernovae. Using Monte…”
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Constraints on core collapse from the black hole mass function
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2015)“…We model the observed black hole mass function under the assumption that black hole formation is controlled by the compactness of the stellar core at the time…”
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IS QUASAR OPTICAL VARIABILITY A DAMPED RANDOM WALK?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2013)“…The damped random walk (DRW) model is increasingly used to model the variability in quasar optical light curves, but it is still uncertain whether the DRW…”
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The Astrophysical Implications of Dust Formation during the Eruptions of Hot, Massive Stars
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2011)“…Dust formation in the winds of hot stars is inextricably linked to the classic eruptive state of luminous blue variables because it requires very high…”
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FAILED SUPERNOVAE EXPLAIN THE COMPACT REMNANT MASS FUNCTION
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-04-2014)“…One explanation for the absence of higher mass red supergiants (16.5 M sub([middot in circle]) [lap] M [lap] 25 M sub([middot in circle])) as the progenitors…”
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The Quasar Accretion Disk Size-Black Hole Mass Relation
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2010)“…We use the microlensing variability observed for 11 gravitationally lensed quasars to show that the accretion disk size at a rest-frame wavelength of 2500 A is…”
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Quantitative Interpretation of Quasar Microlensing Light Curves
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-04-2004)“…We develop a general method for analyzing the light curves of microlensed quasars and apply it to the OGLE light curves of the four-image lens Q2237+0305. We…”
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ON ABSORPTION BY CIRCUMSTELLAR DUST, WITH THE PROGENITOR OF SN 2012aw AS A CASE STUDY
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2012)“…ABSTRACT We use the progenitor of SN 2012aw to illustrate the consequences of modeling circumstellar dust using Galactic (interstellar) extinction laws that…”
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THE MICROLENSING PROPERTIES OF A SAMPLE OF 87 LENSED QUASARS
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2011)“…Gravitational microlensing is a powerful tool for probing the physical properties of quasar accretion disks and properties of the lens galaxy such as its dark…”
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Whimper of a Bang: Documenting the Final Days of the Nearby Type Ia Supernova 2011fe
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2017)“…Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Large Binocular Telescope, we followed the evolution of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2011fe for an…”
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The Distance to the S147 Supernova Remnant
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-06-2024)“…In the absence of a parallax distance to a pulsar or a surviving binary in a supernova remnant (SNR), distances to Galactic SNRs are generally very uncertain…”
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APPLICATION OF STOCHASTIC MODELING TO ANALYSIS OF PHOTOMETRIC REVERBERATION MAPPING DATA
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2016)“…ABSTRACT We use both simulated and real quasar light curves to explore modeling photometric reverberation-mapping (RM) data as a stochastic process. We do this…”
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The Sizes of the X-ray and Optical Emission Regions of RXJ 1131-1231
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2010)“…We use gravitational microlensing of the four images of the z = 0.658 quasar RXJ 1131-1231 to measure the sizes of the optical and X-ray emission regions of…”
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Six months of multiwavelength follow-up of the tidal disruption candidate ASASSN-14li and implied TDE rates from ASAS-SN
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-01-2016)“…We present ground-based and Swift photometric and spectroscopic observations of the candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) ASASSN-14li, found at the centre of…”
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Discovery and follow-up of ASASSN-19dj: an X-ray and UV luminous TDE in an extreme post-starburst galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2021)“…ABSTRACT We present observations of ASASSN-19dj, a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the post-starburst galaxy KUG 0810+227 by the All-Sky…”
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE X-RAY AND OPTICAL EMITTING REGIONS OF THE LENSED QUASAR Q 2237+0305
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2013)“…(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and/or non-USASCII text omitted) We use gravitational microlensing to determine the size of the X-ray and optical emission…”
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Direct Detection of Cold Dark Matter Substructure
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X-Ray Microlensing in RXJ1131-1231 and HE1104-1805
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2009)“…We present results from a monitoring campaign performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the gravitationally lensed quasars RX J1131-1231 and HE…”
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