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Chris Ashall

Researcher at Florida State University

Publications -  141
Citations -  4896

Chris Ashall is an academic researcher from Florida State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 108 publications receiving 3819 citations. Previous affiliations of Chris Ashall include Astrophysics Research Institute & Florida International University.

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A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source

Stephen J. Smartt, +140 more
- 02 Nov 2017 - 
TL;DR: Observations and physical modelling of a rapidly fading electromagnetic transient in the galaxy NGC 4993, which is spatially coincident with GW170817, indicate that neutron-star mergers produce gravitational waves and radioactively powered kilonovae, and are a nucleosynthetic source of the r-process elements.
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PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

Stephen J. Smartt, +114 more
TL;DR: The first data release (SSDR1) contains flux calibrated spectra from the first year (April 2012-2013), and a total of 221 confirmed supernovae were classified, and they released calibrated optical spectra and classifications publicly within 24 h of the data being taken as mentioned in this paper.
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PESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

Stephen J. Smartt, +101 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the data reduction strategy and data products which are publicly available through the ESO archive as the Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 1 (SSDR1).
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The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

Giorgos Leloudas, +62 more
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a star with the same mass as the Sun could be disrupted outside the event horizon if the black hole were spinning rapidly, and the rapid spin and high black hole mass can explain the high luminosity of this event.