papers

Publications (340)

astro-ph.HE2016

Endurance of SN 2005ip after a decade: X-rays, radio, and H-alpha like SN 1988Z require long-lived pre-supernova mass loss

Nathan Smith, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Jon C. Mauerhan +8

astro-ph.GA2021

Gaia EDR3 confirms that Westerlund 1 is closer and older than previously thought

Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +6

astro-ph2004

Carina's Defiant Finger: HST Observations of a Photoevaporating Globule in NGC3372

Nathan Smith, Rodolfo Barba, Nolan R. Walborn

astro-ph.HE2025

HST Deep Upper Limits Rule Out a Surviving Massive Binary Companion to the Type Ic Supernova 2012fh

Benjamin F. Williams, Emmanouil Zapartas, Ori D. Fox +19

astro-ph2005

The reverse shock of SNR1987A at 18 years after outburst

Nathan Smith, Svetozar A. Zhekov, Kevin Heng +3

astro-ph.HE2016

The Afterglow and Early-Type Host Galaxy of the Short GRB 150101B at z=0.1343

Wen-fai Fong, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock +14

astro-ph2006

The UV Scattering Halo of the Central Source Associated with Eta Carinae

D. John Hillier, T. Gull, K. Nielsen +8

astro-ph2007

A silicate disk in the heart of the Ant

Olivier Chesneau, Foteini Lykou, Bruce Balick +6

astro-ph.SR2016

Ancient eruptions of Eta Carinae: A tale written in proper motions

Megan M. Kiminki, Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith

astro-ph.SR2011

Penetrating the Homunculus -- Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Images of Eta Carinae

Étienne Artigau, John C. Martin, Roberta M. Humphreys +3

astro-ph.SR2023

Record-breaking polarization from the interacting superluminous supernova 2017hcc

Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, G. Grant Williams +12

astro-ph.IM2017

Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy

LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita +102

astro-ph2008

On the role of the WNH phase in the evolution of very massive stars: Enabling the LBV instability with feedback

Nathan Smith, Peter S. Conti

astro-ph.SR2020

Inferring the parallax of Westerlund 1 from Gaia DR2

Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +6

astro-ph.HE2019

SN 2017gmr: An energetic Type II-P supernova with asymmetries

Jennifer E. Andrews, D. J. Sand, S. Valenti +77

astro-ph.HE2013

The Crab Nebula and the class of Type IIn-P supernovae caused by sub-energetic electron capture explosions

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.SR2010

Eruptive Outflow Phases of Massive Stars

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2018

ASASSN-15nx: A luminous Type II supernova with a "perfect" linear decline

Subhash Bose, Subo Dong, C. S. Kochanek +24

astro-ph2007

High Resolution Spectroscopy of SN1987A's Rings: He I 10830 and H-alpha from the Hotspots

Nathan Smith, Richard McCray

astro-ph2006

Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Crab Nebula

Tea Temim, Robert D. Gehrz, Charles E. Woodward +7

astro-ph.HE2024

Circumstellar Interaction in the Ultraviolet Spectra of SN 2023ixf 14-66 Days After Explosion

K. Azalee Bostroem, David J. Sand, Luc Dessart +20

astro-ph.SR2011

An Introduction to the Chandra Carina Complex Project

Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Michael F. Corcoran +32

astro-ph.HE2023

JWST Discovery of Dust Reservoirs in Nearby Type IIP Supernovae 2004et and 2017eaw

Melissa Shahbandeh, Arkaprabha Sarangi, Tea Temim +36

astro-ph.SR2023

Repeating periodic eruptions of the supernova impostor SN 2000ch

Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Nathan Smith, Peter Milne +7

astro-ph2006

On the role of continuum-driven eruptions in the evolution of very massive stars and Population III stars

Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki

astro-ph2007

Galactic Twins of the Nebula Around SN 1987A: Hints that LBVs may be supernova progenitors

Nathan Smith

astro-ph2008

Dust Formation and He II 4686 emission in the Dense Shell of the Peculiar Type Ib Supernova 2006jc

Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Alexei V. Filippenko

astro-ph.SR2022

An Exceptional Dimming Event for a Massive, Cool Supergiant in M51

Jacob E. Jencson, David J. Sand, Jennifer E. Andrews +6

astro-ph.SR2017

Modelling Luminous-Blue-Variable Isolation

Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +1

astro-ph.SR2013

The Unprecedented 2012 Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a True Supernova

Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Alexei Filippenko +9

astro-ph.SR2012

SN 2011hw: Helium-Rich Circumstellar Gas and the Luminous Blue Variable to Wolf-Rayet Transition in Supernova Progenitors

Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, Jeffrey M. Silverman +5

astro-ph.HE2018

SPIRITS 16tn in NGC 3556: A heavily obscured and low-luminosity supernova at 8.8 Mpc

Jacob E. Jencson, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Scott M. Adams +17

astro-ph.HE2023

A Low-Mass Helium Star Progenitor Model for the Type Ibn SN 2020nxt

Qinan Wang, Anika Goel, Luc Dessart +55

astro-ph2007

And in the Darkness Bind Them: Equatorial Rings, B[e] Supergiants, and the Waists of Bipolar Nebulae

Nathan Smith, John Bally, Josh Walawender

astro-ph.SR2021

Simulating the formation of Carinae's surrounding nebula through unstable triple evolution and stellar merger-induced eruption

Ryosuke Hirai, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Stanley P. Owocki +2

astro-ph.IM2018

Development of the Arizona Robotic Telescope Network

Benjamin J. Weiner, David Sand, Paul Gabor +9

astro-ph2007

Independent Signs of Lower Mass-Loss Rates for O-Type Stars

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2014

Uncovering the Putative B-Star Binary Companion of the SN 1993J Progenitor

Ori D. Fox, K. Azalee Bostroem, Schuyler D. Van Dyk +9

astro-ph.SR2017

Proper motions of collimated jets from intermediate-mass protostars in the Carina Nebula

Megan Reiter, Megan M. Kiminki, Nathan Smith +1

astro-ph.HE2024

Dissecting the Crab Nebula with JWST: Pulsar wind, dusty filaments, and Ni/Fe abundance constraints on the explosion mechanism

Tea Temim, J. Martin Laming, P. J. Kavanagh +19

astro-ph2006

Discovery of a nearby twin of SN1987A's nebula around the luminous blue variable HD168625: Was Sk--69 202 an LBV?

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.IM2009

The Star Formation Camera

Paul A. Scowen, Rolf Jansen, Matthew Beasley +21

astro-ph2004

Spatially extended K I 7699 emission in the nebula of VY CMa: Kinematics and geometry

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.SR2024

The red supergiant progenitor luminosity problem

Emma R. Beasor, Nathan Smith, Jacob E. Jencson

astro-ph.HE2020

Effect of binary evolution on the inferred initial and final core masses of hydrogen-rich, Type~II supernova progenitors

Emmanouil Zapartas, Selma E. de Mink, Stephen Justham +3

astro-ph.HE2024

Characterizing the Rapid Hydrogen Disappearance in SN2022crv: Evidence of a Continuum between Type Ib and IIb Supernova Properties

Yize Dong, Stefano Valenti, Chris Ashall +52

astro-ph.HE2024

The Green Monster hiding in front of Cas A: JWST reveals a dense and dusty circumstellar structure pockmarked by ejecta interactions

Ilse De Looze, Dan Milisavljevic, Tea Temim +27

astro-ph.SR2014

SN Hunt 248: a super-Eddington outburst from a massive cool hypergiant

Jon C. Mauerhan, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Melissa L Graham +8

astro-ph.SR2012

Supernova 1998S at 14 years Postmortem: Continuing Circumstellar Interaction and Dust Formation

Jon Mauerhan, Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2022

SN 1961V: A Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernova

S. E. Woosley, Nathan Smith

astro-ph.SR2019

The isolation of Luminous Blue Variables resembles aging B-type supergiants, not the most massive unevolved stars

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2023

SN~2015da: Late-time observations of a persistent superluminous Type~IIn supernova with post-shock dust formation

Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Peter Milne +5

astro-ph.CO2013

Discovery and Early Multi-Wavelength Measurements of the Energetic Type Ic Supernova PTF12gzk: A Massive-Star Explosion in a Dwarf Host Galaxy

Sagi Ben-Ami, Avishay Gal-Yam, Alexei V. Filippenko +45

astro-ph2008

Red supergiants as potential Type IIn supernova progenitors: Spatially resolved 4.6 micron CO emission around VY CMa and Betelgeuse

Nathan Smith, Kenneth H. Hinkle, Nils Ryde

astro-ph.HE2026

An infrared echo from a circumstellar disk in the hydrogen- and helium-poor SN 2024aecx

Samaporn Tinyanont, Kittipong Wangnok, Jennifer E. Andrews +34

astro-ph.HE2023

Serendipitous detection of the dusty Type IIL SN 1980K with JWST/MIRI

Szanna Zsíros, Tamás Szalai, Ilse De Looze +39

astro-ph.SR2012

A Model for the 19th Century Eruption of Eta Carinae: CSM Interaction Like a Scaled-Down Type IIn Supernova

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2022

Optical Rebrightening of Extragalactic Transients from the Zwicky Transient Facility

Monika Soraisam, Thomas Matheson, Chien-Hsiu Lee +11

astro-ph.HE2019

Astro2020 Science White Paper: Discovery Frontiers of Explosive Transients - An ELT & LSST Perspective

Melissa L. Graham, Danny Milisavljevic, Armin Rest +17

astro-ph.SR2018

Massive and Evolved Stars with the ngVLA

Thomas J. Maccarone, Saida Caballero-Nieves, Nathan Smith +1

astro-ph.HE2026

SN 2023zcu: A Type IIP SN with Early Flash Features

Monalisa Dubey, Kuntal Misra, Géza Csörnyei +51

astro-ph.SR2022

High Cadence TESS and ground-based data of SN 2019esa, the less energetic sibling of SN 2006gy

Jennifer E. Andrews, Jeniveve Pearson, M. J. Lundquist +16

astro-ph.SR2016

UV spectroscopy of the blue supergiant SBW1: the remarkably weak wind of a SN 1987A analog

Nathan Smith, Jose H. Groh, Kevin France +1

astro-ph.SR2015

The Persistent Eruption of UGC~2773-OT: Finally, a Decade-Long Extragalactic Eta Carinae Analog

Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Jon C. Mauerhan +4

astro-ph.HE2024

Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: II. Evidence from Nebular Spectroscopy for a Violent Merger in a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova

Lindsey A. Kwok, Matthew R. Siebert, Joel Johansson +78

astro-ph.HE2020

The Slow Demise of the Long-Lived SN 2005ip

Ori D. Fox, Claes Fransson, Nathan Smith +16

astro-ph.SR2016

Multi-epoch Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011fe

Peter A. Milne, G. Grant Williams, Amber Porter +5

astro-ph.HE2014

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material

Sagi Ben-Ami, Stephan Hachinger, Avishay Gal-Yam +9

astro-ph.HE2018

Strong late-time circumstellar interaction in the peculiar supernova iPTF14hls

Jennifer E. Andrews, Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2022

Early-Time Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Optical Follow-up Observations of the Type IIP Supernova 2021yja

Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Alexei V. Filippenko, Christian Vogl +19

astro-ph.SR2017

The canonical Luminous Blue Variable AG Car and its neighbor Hen 3-519 are much closer than previously assumed

Nathan Smith, Keivan G. Stassun

astro-ph2006

A Census of the Carina Nebula. I: Cumulative Energy Input from Massive Stars

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.SR2018

SN 2017ein and the Possible First Identification of a Type Ic Supernova Progenitor

Schuyler D. Van Dyk, WeiKang Zheng, Thomas G. Brink +11

astro-ph2004

Thermal-IR Detection of Optical Outflow Sources in OMC1 South

Nathan Smith, John Bally, Ralph Y. Shuping +2

astro-ph.SR2010

Explosions Triggered by Violent Binary-Star Collisions: Application to Eta Carinae and other Eruptive Transients

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2023

Shock Cooling and Possible Precursor Emission in the Early Light Curve of the Type II SN 2023ixf

Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Joseph Farah, Manisha Shrestha +28

astro-ph.HE2025

One Year of SN 2023ixf: Breaking Through the Degenerate Parameter Space in Light-Curve Models with Pulsating Progenitors

Brian Hsu, Nathan Smith, Jared A. Goldberg +21

astro-ph.SR2013

HST/WFC3 Imaging of Protostellar Jets in Carina: [Fe II] Emission Tracing Massive Jets from Intermediate Mass Protostars

Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith

astro-ph.SR2011

HST-COS Observations of Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon and Nitrogen Emission from the SN 1987A Reverse Shock

Kevin France, Richard McCray, Steven V. Penton +18

astro-ph.HE2024

Circumstellar interaction signatures in the low luminosity type II SN 2021gmj

Nicolas Meza-Retamal, Yize Dong, K. Azalee Bostroem +25

astro-ph.SR2026

Detached Post-Algol Eclipsing Binaries Caught Between Case A and Case AB Mass Transfer

Megan G. Frank, Maxwell Moe, Nathan Smith

astro-ph.GA2014

SDSS1133: An Unusually Persistent Transient in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy

Michael Koss, Laura Blecha, Richard Mushotzky +12

astro-ph.SR2026

Radial Velocity Evidence for a Post-Mass-Transfer Massive Binary System: NaSt1

Kittipong Wangnok, Samaporn Tinyanont, Ryan M. Lau +11

astro-ph.HE2026

JWST spectroscopy of SN 2010da/NGC 300 ULX-1: a surviving star hidden by dust

Emma R. Beasor, Ryan Lau, Nathan Smith +3

astro-ph.HE2023

Limit on Supernova Emission in the Brightest Gamma-ray Burst, GRB 221009A

Manisha Shrestha, David J. Sand, Kate D. Alexander +30

astro-ph.SR2017

Extreme isolation of WN3/O3 stars and implications for their evolutionary origin as the elusive stripped binaries

Nathan Smith, Ylva Gotberg, Selma E. de Mink

astro-ph2005

Thermal Dust Emission from Proplyds, Unresolved Disks, and Shocks in the Orion Nebula

Nathan Smith, John Bally, Ralph Y. Shuping +2

astro-ph.HE2024

SN2023fyq: A Type Ibn Supernova With Long-standing Precursor Activity Due to Binary Interaction

Yize Dong, Daichi Tsuna, Stefano Valenti +29

astro-ph2005

Kinematic Structure of H2 and [Fe II] in the Bipolar Planetary Nebula M 2-9

Nathan Smith, Bruce Balick, Robert D. Gehrz

astro-ph.HE2026

Photometry and Spectroscopy of SN 2024pxl: A Luminosity Link Among Type Iax Supernovae

Mridweeka Singh, Lindsey A. Kwok, Saurabh W. Jha +90

astro-ph2008

Episodic Mass Loss and Pre-SN Circumstellar Envelopes

Nathan Smith

astro-ph.HE2025

Optimizing Kilonova Searches: A Case Study of the Type IIb SN 2025ulz in the Localization Volume of the Low-Significance Gravitational Wave Event S250818k

Noah Franz, Bhagya Subrayan, Charles D. Kilpatrick +54

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2024iss: A Double-peaked Type IIb Supernova with Evidence of Circumstellar Interaction

Liyang Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Qinyu Wu +54

astro-ph.GA2022

Deep diving off the `Cosmic Cliffs': previously hidden outflows in NGC 3324 revealed by JWST

Megan Reiter, Jon A. Morse, Nathan Smith +3

astro-ph.SR2021

Discovery of a 310-day Period from the Enshrouded Massive System NaSt1 (WR 122)

Ryan M. Lau, Samaporn Tinyanont, Matthew J. Hankins +15

astro-ph.SR2015

Mapping High-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha Emission from Supernova 1987A

Kevin France, Richard McCray, Claes Fransson +12

astro-ph.SR2023

Don't believe the hype(r): The Yellow Supergiants of Westerlund 1

Emma R. Beasor, Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews

astro-ph.SR2020

A new and unusual LBV-like outburst from a Wolf-Rayet star in the outskirts of M33

Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Maxwell Moe +8

astro-ph.SR2025

Very Late-Time JWST and Keck Spectra of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova 1995N

Geoffrey C. Clayton, R. Wesson, Ori D. Fox +43

astro-ph.EP2019

Carbon Chain Depletion of 2I/Borisov

Theodore Kareta, Jennifer Andrews, John W. Noonan +10