Publications (340)
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
Gaia EDR3 confirms that Westerlund 1 is closer and older than previously thought
Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +6
Carina's Defiant Finger: HST Observations of a Photoevaporating Globule in NGC3372
Nathan Smith, Rodolfo Barba, Nolan R. Walborn
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
The reverse shock of SNR1987A at 18 years after outburst
Nathan Smith, Svetozar A. Zhekov, Kevin Heng +3
The Afterglow and Early-Type Host Galaxy of the Short GRB 150101B at z=0.1343
Wen-fai Fong, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock +14
The UV Scattering Halo of the Central Source Associated with Eta Carinae
D. John Hillier, T. Gull, K. Nielsen +8
A silicate disk in the heart of the Ant
Olivier Chesneau, Foteini Lykou, Bruce Balick +6
Ancient eruptions of Eta Carinae: A tale written in proper motions
Megan M. Kiminki, Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith
Penetrating the Homunculus -- Near-Infrared Adaptive Optics Images of Eta Carinae
Ãtienne Artigau, John C. Martin, Roberta M. Humphreys +3
Record-breaking polarization from the interacting superluminous supernova 2017hcc
Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, G. Grant Williams +12
Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy
LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita +102
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
Inferring the parallax of Westerlund 1 from Gaia DR2
Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +6
SN 2017gmr: An energetic Type II-P supernova with asymmetries
Jennifer E. Andrews, D. J. Sand, S. Valenti +77
The Crab Nebula and the class of Type IIn-P supernovae caused by sub-energetic electron capture explosions
Nathan Smith
Eruptive Outflow Phases of Massive Stars
Nathan Smith
ASASSN-15nx: A luminous Type II supernova with a "perfect" linear decline
Subhash Bose, Subo Dong, C. S. Kochanek +24
High Resolution Spectroscopy of SN1987A's Rings: He I 10830 and H-alpha from the Hotspots
Nathan Smith, Richard McCray
Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Crab Nebula
Tea Temim, Robert D. Gehrz, Charles E. Woodward +7
Circumstellar Interaction in the Ultraviolet Spectra of SN 2023ixf 14-66 Days After Explosion
K. Azalee Bostroem, David J. Sand, Luc Dessart +20
An Introduction to the Chandra Carina Complex Project
Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Michael F. Corcoran +32
JWST Discovery of Dust Reservoirs in Nearby Type IIP Supernovae 2004et and 2017eaw
Melissa Shahbandeh, Arkaprabha Sarangi, Tea Temim +36
Repeating periodic eruptions of the supernova impostor SN 2000ch
Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Nathan Smith, Peter Milne +7
On the role of continuum-driven eruptions in the evolution of very massive stars and Population III stars
Nathan Smith, Stanley P. Owocki
Galactic Twins of the Nebula Around SN 1987A: Hints that LBVs may be supernova progenitors
Nathan Smith
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
An Exceptional Dimming Event for a Massive, Cool Supergiant in M51
Jacob E. Jencson, David J. Sand, Jennifer E. Andrews +6
Modelling Luminous-Blue-Variable Isolation
Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Nathan Smith +1
The Unprecedented 2012 Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a True Supernova
Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Alexei Filippenko +9
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
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
A Low-Mass Helium Star Progenitor Model for the Type Ibn SN 2020nxt
Qinan Wang, Anika Goel, Luc Dessart +55
And in the Darkness Bind Them: Equatorial Rings, B[e] Supergiants, and the Waists of Bipolar Nebulae
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Josh Walawender
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
Development of the Arizona Robotic Telescope Network
Benjamin J. Weiner, David Sand, Paul Gabor +9
Independent Signs of Lower Mass-Loss Rates for O-Type Stars
Nathan Smith
Uncovering the Putative B-Star Binary Companion of the SN 1993J Progenitor
Ori D. Fox, K. Azalee Bostroem, Schuyler D. Van Dyk +9
Proper motions of collimated jets from intermediate-mass protostars in the Carina Nebula
Megan Reiter, Megan M. Kiminki, Nathan Smith +1
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
Discovery of a nearby twin of SN1987A's nebula around the luminous blue variable HD168625: Was Sk--69 202 an LBV?
Nathan Smith
The Star Formation Camera
Paul A. Scowen, Rolf Jansen, Matthew Beasley +21
Spatially extended K I 7699 emission in the nebula of VY CMa: Kinematics and geometry
Nathan Smith
The red supergiant progenitor luminosity problem
Emma R. Beasor, Nathan Smith, Jacob E. Jencson
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
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
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
SN Hunt 248: a super-Eddington outburst from a massive cool hypergiant
Jon C. Mauerhan, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Melissa L Graham +8
Supernova 1998S at 14 years Postmortem: Continuing Circumstellar Interaction and Dust Formation
Jon Mauerhan, Nathan Smith
SN 1961V: A Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernova
S. E. Woosley, Nathan Smith
The isolation of Luminous Blue Variables resembles aging B-type supergiants, not the most massive unevolved stars
Nathan Smith
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
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
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
An infrared echo from a circumstellar disk in the hydrogen- and helium-poor SN 2024aecx
Samaporn Tinyanont, Kittipong Wangnok, Jennifer E. Andrews +34
Serendipitous detection of the dusty Type IIL SN 1980K with JWST/MIRI
Szanna ZsÃros, Tamás Szalai, Ilse De Looze +39
A Model for the 19th Century Eruption of Eta Carinae: CSM Interaction Like a Scaled-Down Type IIn Supernova
Nathan Smith
Optical Rebrightening of Extragalactic Transients from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Monika Soraisam, Thomas Matheson, Chien-Hsiu Lee +11
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Discovery Frontiers of Explosive Transients - An ELT & LSST Perspective
Melissa L. Graham, Danny Milisavljevic, Armin Rest +17
Massive and Evolved Stars with the ngVLA
Thomas J. Maccarone, Saida Caballero-Nieves, Nathan Smith +1
SN 2023zcu: A Type IIP SN with Early Flash Features
Monalisa Dubey, Kuntal Misra, Géza Csörnyei +51
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
UV spectroscopy of the blue supergiant SBW1: the remarkably weak wind of a SN 1987A analog
Nathan Smith, Jose H. Groh, Kevin France +1
The Persistent Eruption of UGC~2773-OT: Finally, a Decade-Long Extragalactic Eta Carinae Analog
Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Jon C. Mauerhan +4
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
The Slow Demise of the Long-Lived SN 2005ip
Ori D. Fox, Claes Fransson, Nathan Smith +16
Multi-epoch Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011fe
Peter A. Milne, G. Grant Williams, Amber Porter +5
Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material
Sagi Ben-Ami, Stephan Hachinger, Avishay Gal-Yam +9
Strong late-time circumstellar interaction in the peculiar supernova iPTF14hls
Jennifer E. Andrews, Nathan Smith
Early-Time Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Optical Follow-up Observations of the Type IIP Supernova 2021yja
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Alexei V. Filippenko, Christian Vogl +19
The canonical Luminous Blue Variable AG Car and its neighbor Hen 3-519 are much closer than previously assumed
Nathan Smith, Keivan G. Stassun
A Census of the Carina Nebula. I: Cumulative Energy Input from Massive Stars
Nathan Smith
SN 2017ein and the Possible First Identification of a Type Ic Supernova Progenitor
Schuyler D. Van Dyk, WeiKang Zheng, Thomas G. Brink +11
Thermal-IR Detection of Optical Outflow Sources in OMC1 South
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Ralph Y. Shuping +2
Explosions Triggered by Violent Binary-Star Collisions: Application to Eta Carinae and other Eruptive Transients
Nathan Smith
Shock Cooling and Possible Precursor Emission in the Early Light Curve of the Type II SN 2023ixf
Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Joseph Farah, Manisha Shrestha +28
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
HST/WFC3 Imaging of Protostellar Jets in Carina: [Fe II] Emission Tracing Massive Jets from Intermediate Mass Protostars
Megan Reiter, Nathan Smith
HST-COS Observations of Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon and Nitrogen Emission from the SN 1987A Reverse Shock
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Steven V. Penton +18
Circumstellar interaction signatures in the low luminosity type II SN 2021gmj
Nicolas Meza-Retamal, Yize Dong, K. Azalee Bostroem +25
Detached Post-Algol Eclipsing Binaries Caught Between Case A and Case AB Mass Transfer
Megan G. Frank, Maxwell Moe, Nathan Smith
SDSS1133: An Unusually Persistent Transient in a Nearby Dwarf Galaxy
Michael Koss, Laura Blecha, Richard Mushotzky +12
Radial Velocity Evidence for a Post-Mass-Transfer Massive Binary System: NaSt1
Kittipong Wangnok, Samaporn Tinyanont, Ryan M. Lau +11
JWST spectroscopy of SN 2010da/NGC 300 ULX-1: a surviving star hidden by dust
Emma R. Beasor, Ryan Lau, Nathan Smith +3
Limit on Supernova Emission in the Brightest Gamma-ray Burst, GRB 221009A
Manisha Shrestha, David J. Sand, Kate D. Alexander +30
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
Thermal Dust Emission from Proplyds, Unresolved Disks, and Shocks in the Orion Nebula
Nathan Smith, John Bally, Ralph Y. Shuping +2
SN2023fyq: A Type Ibn Supernova With Long-standing Precursor Activity Due to Binary Interaction
Yize Dong, Daichi Tsuna, Stefano Valenti +29
Kinematic Structure of H2 and [Fe II] in the Bipolar Planetary Nebula M 2-9
Nathan Smith, Bruce Balick, Robert D. Gehrz
Photometry and Spectroscopy of SN 2024pxl: A Luminosity Link Among Type Iax Supernovae
Mridweeka Singh, Lindsey A. Kwok, Saurabh W. Jha +90
Episodic Mass Loss and Pre-SN Circumstellar Envelopes
Nathan Smith
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
SN 2024iss: A Double-peaked Type IIb Supernova with Evidence of Circumstellar Interaction
Liyang Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Qinyu Wu +54
Deep diving off the `Cosmic Cliffs': previously hidden outflows in NGC 3324 revealed by JWST
Megan Reiter, Jon A. Morse, Nathan Smith +3
Discovery of a 310-day Period from the Enshrouded Massive System NaSt1 (WR 122)
Ryan M. Lau, Samaporn Tinyanont, Matthew J. Hankins +15
Mapping High-velocity H-alpha and Lyman-alpha Emission from Supernova 1987A
Kevin France, Richard McCray, Claes Fransson +12
Don't believe the hype(r): The Yellow Supergiants of Westerlund 1
Emma R. Beasor, Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews
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
Very Late-Time JWST and Keck Spectra of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova 1995N
Geoffrey C. Clayton, R. Wesson, Ori D. Fox +43
Carbon Chain Depletion of 2I/Borisov
Theodore Kareta, Jennifer Andrews, John W. Noonan +10