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Kirsty Taggart
Researcher at Liverpool John Moores University
Publications - 47
Citations - 1809
Kirsty Taggart is an academic researcher from Liverpool John Moores University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Population. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1070 citations. Previous affiliations of Kirsty Taggart include University of California, Santa Cruz.
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The fast, luminous ultraviolet transient AT2018cow: extreme supernova, or disruption of a star by an intermediate-mass black hole?
Daniel A. Perley,Paolo A. Mazzali,Paolo A. Mazzali,Lin Yan,S. Bradley Cenko,S. Bradley Cenko,Suvi Gezari,Kirsty Taggart,N. Blagorodnova,Christoffer Fremling,Brenna Mockler,Brenna Mockler,Avinash Singh,Avinash Singh,Nozomu Tominaga,Nozomu Tominaga,Masaomi Tanaka,Alan M. Watson,T. Ahumada,G. C. Anupama,Chris Ashall,Rosa L. Becerra,D. Bersier,Varun Bhalerao,Joshua S. Bloom,Nathaniel R. Butler,Chris M. Copperwheat,Michael W. Coughlin,Kaushik De,Andrew J. Drake,Dmitry A. Duev,S. Frederick,J. Jesús González,Ariel Goobar,Marianne Heida,Anna Y. Q. Ho,John C. Horst,Tiara Hung,Ryosuke Itoh,Jacob E. Jencson,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Nobuyuki Kawai,Tanazza Khanam,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Brajesh Kumar,Harsh Kumar,A. Kutyrev,A. Kutyrev,William H. Lee,Keiichi Maeda,Ashish Mahabal,K. L. Murata,James D. Neill,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Bryan E. Penprase,Elena Pian,Robert M. Quimby,Robert M. Quimby,Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,Michael G. Richer,Carlos Román-Zúñiga,D. K. Sahu,S. Srivastav,Quentin J Socia,Jesper Sollerman,Yutaro Tachibana,Francesco Taddia,Samaporn Tinyanont,Eleonora Troja,Eleonora Troja,C. Ward,Jerrick Wee,Po-Chieh Yu +72 more
TL;DR: In this article, the spectrum remains extremely hot throughout its evolution, and the photospheric radius contracts with time (receding below R <10^14 cm after 1 month).
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Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies
Sjoert van Velzen,Sjoert van Velzen,Suvi Gezari,Erica Hammerstein,Nathaniel Roth,Sara Frederick,Charlotte Ward,Tiara Hung,S. Bradley Cenko,S. Bradley Cenko,Robert Stein,Daniel A. Perley,Kirsty Taggart,Ryan J. Foley,Jesper Sollerman,Nadejda Blagorodnova,Igor Andreoni,Eric C. Bellm,V. Brinnel,Kaushik De,Richard Dekany,Michael Feeney,Christoffer Fremling,M. Giomi,V. Zach Golkhou,V. Zach Golkhou,Matthew J. Graham,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Charles D. Kilpatrick,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas Kupfer,Russ R. Laher,Ashish Mahabal,Frank J. Masci,Adam A. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Jakob Nordin,Reed Riddle,Ben Rusholme,J. V. Santen,Yashvi Sharma,David L. Shupe,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Maayane T. Soumagnac +44 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a homogeneous analysis of the optical/UV light curves, including 22 previously known TDEs from the literature, reveals a clean separation of light-curve properties with spectroscopic class.
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Seventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies
Sjoert van Velzen,Suvi Gezari,Erica Hammerstein,Nathaniel Roth,Sara Frederick,Charlotte Ward,Tiara Hung,S. Bradley Cenko,Robert Stein,Daniel A. Perley,Kirsty Taggart,Jesper Sollerman,Igor Andreoni,Eric C. Bellm,V. Brinnel,Kaushik De,Richard Dekany,Michael Feeney,Ryan J. Foley,Christoffer Fremling,Matteo Giomi,V. Zach Golkhou,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Charles D. Kilpatrick,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas Kupfer,Russ R. Laher,Ashish Mahabal,Frank J. Masci,J. Nordin,Reed Riddle,Ben Rusholme,Yashvi Sharma,J. V. Santen,David L. Shupe,Maayane T. Soumagnac +36 more
TL;DR: In this article, a homogeneous analysis of the optical/UV light curves, including 22 previously known TDEs from the literature, reveals a clean separation of light curve properties with spectroscopic class.
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GROWTH on S190425z: Searching Thousands of Square Degrees to Identify an Optical or Infrared Counterpart to a Binary Neutron Star Merger with the Zwicky Transient Facility and Palomar Gattini-IR
Michael W. Coughlin,Tomas Ahumada,Shreya Anand,Kaushik De,M. Hankins,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Leo Singer,Leo Singer,Eric C. Bellm,Igor Andreoni,S. Bradley Cenko,S. Bradley Cenko,Jeff Cooke,Chris M. Copperwheat,Alison Dugas,Jacob E. Jencson,Daniel A. Perley,Po-Chieh Yu,Varun Bhalerao,Harsh Kumar,Joshua S. Bloom,Joshua S. Bloom,G. C. Anupama,Michael C. B. Ashley,Ashot Bagdasaryan,Rahul Biswas,David A. H. Buckley,Kevin B. Burdge,David O. Cook,John Cromer,Virginia Cunningham,Antonino D'Ai,Richard Dekany,Alexandre Delacroix,S. Dichiara,S. Dichiara,Dmitry A. Duev,Anirban Dutta,Michael Feeney,Sara Frederick,Pradip Gatkine,Sourav Ghosh,Daniel A. Goldstein,V. Zach Golkhou,Ariel Goobar,Matthew J. Graham,H. Hanayama,Takashi Horiuchi,Tiara Hung,Saurabh Jha,Albert K. H. Kong,Matteo Giomi,David L. Kaplan,V. Karambelkar,Marek Kowalski,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Thomas Kupfer,Frank J. Masci,Paolo A. Mazzali,Anna M. Moore,Moses Mogotsi,James D. Neill,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Jorge Martínez-Palomera,Valentina La Parola,M. Pavana,Eran O. Ofek,Atharva Sunil Patil,Reed Riddle,Mickael Rigault,Ben Rusholme,Eugene Serabyn,David L. Shupe,Y. Sharma,Avinash Singh,Jesper Sollerman,J. Soon,Kai Staats,Kirsty Taggart,Hanjie Tan,Tony Travouillon,Eleonora Troja,Eleonora Troja,G. Waratkar,Yoichi Yatsu +84 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a dedicated follow-up campaign with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and Palomar Gattini-IR telescopes.
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ZTF Early Observations of Type Ia Supernovae. I. Properties of the 2018 Sample
Yuhan Yao,Adam A. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Mattia Bulla,Frank J. Masci,Daniel A. Goldstein,Ariel Goobar,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Alison Dugas,N. Blagorodnova,James D. Neill,M. Rigault,Jesper Sollerman,Jakob Nordin,Eric C. Bellm,S. Bradley Cenko,S. Bradley Cenko,Kaushik De,Suhail Dhawan,Ulrich Feindt,Christoffer Fremling,Pradip Gatkine,Matthew J. Graham,Melissa L. Graham,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Tiara Hung,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Thomas Kupfer,Russ R. Laher,Daniel A. Perley,Ben Rusholme,David L. Shupe,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Kirsty Taggart,Richard Walters,Lin Yan +37 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented high-quality light curves of 127 SNe Ia discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) in 2018, which can be used to study the shape and color evolution of the rising light curves in unprecedented detail.