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Ryan McKinnon

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  47
Citations -  3176

Ryan McKinnon is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 47 publications receiving 2775 citations. Previous affiliations of Ryan McKinnon include University of Bonn & Yale University.

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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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On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor

TL;DR: In this article, a sample of 24 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) was assembled and the authors measured the light-curve shape through rise and decline time-scales.