Monday, August 17, 2009
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White Dwarf Formation, WD-MS and WD-WD Mass Transferring Binaries
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Morning Session Chair: Lars Bildsten (KITP) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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White Dwarf Formation
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8:50am |
David Gross (KITP Director)
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Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:00am |
Kurtis Williams (Univ. Texas - Austin)
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Initial-Final Mass Relations and Hot DQ's [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:30am |
Klaus Werner (Eberhard Karls Univ.)
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Late Helium Flashes and Hydrogen Poor Stars [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:00am |
Jason Kalirai (STScI)
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New Puzzles: Isolated Helium Core WDs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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White Dwarfs in Binaries and Classical Novae
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11:00am |
Christian Knigge (Univ. Southampton)
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Populations and Birthrates of Cataclysmic Variables [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:30am |
Dean Townsley (Univ. Arizona)
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Unstable Hydrogen Burning: Classical Novae and SSS [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:00pm |
Allen Shafter (SDSU)
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Classical Novae Rates and Properties [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Rosanne di Stefano (Harvard CfA) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Double White Dwarfs
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2:00pm |
Gils Nelemans (Radboud Univ.)
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Double Degenerate Rates and AMCVN Stars [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:30pm |
Geoffrey Clayton (LSU)
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RCorBor Stars from Double WD Mergers [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:00pm |
Joel Tohline (LSU)
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Double Degenerate Mergers and Outcomes [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Unusual Transients and Surprises
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4:00pm |
Ken Shen (UCSB)
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Helium Shell Flash Scenarios and Outcomes [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:30pm |
Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech)
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New Unusual Transients in the 'Gap' [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Contributed Talks are 10 min + 5 min Discussion
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5:00pm |
Carles Badenes (Princeton)
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The SWARMS Survey: A Search for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors with SDSS [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:15pm |
Ryan Foley (Harvard, CfA)
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SN 2008ha and Low-Luminosity Transients [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Type Ia supernovae Progenitors, Rates and Models
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Morning Session Chair: Frank Timmes (ASU) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Ignition Scenarios and Outcomes
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9:00am |
Ken Nomoto (Univ. Tokyo)
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Single Degenerate Ignition Conditions and Constraints [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:30am |
Tony Piro (UC Berkeley)
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Rotation, Magnetism and Nucleosynthesis during Smoldering Phase [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:00am |
Fritz Roepke (MPA Garching)
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Outcomes from Deflagration Scenarios [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Detonations etc
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11:00am |
Dan Kasen (UCSC)
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Lightcurves and Spectra of Different Scenarios [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
11:30am |
Peter Hoeflich (FSU)
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Polarization Spectra for Type Ias [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Contributed Talks are 10 min + 5 min Discussion
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12:00pm |
Dovi Poznanski (UC Berkeley)
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A Remarkable Supernova Gone Unremarked [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:15pm |
Jose Prieto (OSU)
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A Spitzer/IRS Spectrum of the 2008 Luminous Transient in NGC 300: Connection to Proto-Planetary Nebulae
[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Dick McCray (Univ. Colorado-Boulder) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Explosive Outcomes and Dependences
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2:00pm |
Nando Patat (ESO)
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Type Ia Progenitor Signatures [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
2:30pm |
Andy Howell (LCOGT)
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Puzzles Presented by Superluminous and Subluminous Events [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:00pm |
Peter Garnavich (Notre Dame)
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Status of Age and Metallicity Dependences for Type Ia [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Populations, Progenitors and Rates
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4:00pm |
Alex Filippenko (UC Berkeley)
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Nearby SNe Rates [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:30pm |
Ben Dilday (Rutgers)
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New SDSS Results on Rates and Populations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:00pm |
Mark Sullivan (Univ. of Oxford)
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High Redshift Populations and Rates [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:30pm |
Andy Howell (LCOGT)
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Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:45pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Type Ia Observations, Transitioning to Core Collapse Events
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Morning Session Chair: Brian Schmidt (ANU) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Observational Results on SNe
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9:00am |
Mark Phillips (Carnegie Observatories)
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Photometric Diversity from the CSP [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:30am |
Paolo Mazzali (MPA Garching)
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Important Inferences from Type Ia Specta [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:00am |
Adam Riess (STScI)
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Hubble Constant from Ia's [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Results from New Surveys
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11:00am |
Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC)
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Results from Fermi [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:30am |
Eran Ofek (Caltech)
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Results from Palomar Transient Factory [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Contributed Talks are 10 min + 5 min Discussion
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12:00pm |
Maria Teresa Botticella (Univ. Belfast)
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SN2008S : An Electron Capture SN from a Super AGB Progenitor [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:15pm |
Joanne Bibby (Univ. Sheffield)
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Are Wolf-Rayet Stars Progenitors of Type Ib/c Supernovae? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Bruno Leibundgut (ESO, Garching) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Odd SN and Remnants
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2:00pm |
Saurabh Jha (Rutgers)
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Power of Nebular Spectroscopy and SN 2002cx, 2005hk [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:30pm |
Robert Fesen (Dartmouth)
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What We Learn from Observing SNe Remnants [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:00pm |
Claes Fransson (Stockholm Obs)
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Supernova 1987A [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Large Scale Structure and Supernovae
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4:00pm |
Luc Dessart (CNRS)
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Status of the Expanding Photosphere Method for Distances [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:30pm |
Armin Rest (Harvard)
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Studying Ancient Supernovae via their Light Echoes and a PanStarrs-1 Update [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:00pm |
Robert Kirshner (Harvard, CfA)
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Supernova Cosmology [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:45pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
Dinner Celebration for Bob Kirshner's 60th Birthday [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
8:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
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Core Collapse Supernovae, Massive Stars, LBV
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Morning Session Chair: Craig Wheeler (Univ. Texas - Austin) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Core Collapse SNe
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9:00am |
Thomas Janka (MPA Garching)
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Status of 8-10 Solar Mass Objects and Beyond [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:30am |
Stephen Smartt (Queen's Univ.)
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Progenitor Masses and IIP Inferences [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:00am |
Justyn Maund (Niels Bohr Inst.)
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Spectrapolarimetry Indicators in Core Collapse Supernovae [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Core Collapse Mechanisms
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11:00am |
Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge Natl Lab)
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Status of Neutrino Driven Explosions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:30am |
Thierry Foglizzo (CEA Saclay)
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Role and Impact of SASI [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:00pm |
Adam Burrows (Princeton)
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Emerging Themes in the Theory of CC SNe Explosions [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Roger Chevalier (Univ. Virginia) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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Connecting Core Collapse SNe Models to Progenitors
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2:00pm |
Alex Heger (Univ. of Minn.)
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Expectations of Metallicity/Rotation Dependence [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
2:30pm |
Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Inst.)
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Connecting Massive Stars to Range of Outcomes [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:00pm |
Maryam Modjaz (UC Berkeley)
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The Ibc Zoo [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Really Bright Type II's
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4:00pm |
Robert Quimby (Caltech)
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Perspective on Bright Type II Events [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
4:30pm |
Nathan Smith (UC Berkeley)
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Luminous Blue Variable and Connection to Bright Events [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:00pm |
Stan Woosley (UCO/Lick Obs.)
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What Does Pair Instability Predict? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
5:45pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Friday, August 21, 2009
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Gamma-Ray Bursts, Type Ib/Ic Supernovae
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Morning Session Chair: Elena Pian (INAF) [Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]
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SN/GRB Connection
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9:00am |
Alicia Soderberg (Harvard, CfA)
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Holistic View of GRB-SN [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
9:30am |
Andrew MacFadyen (NYU)
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Collapsar Model [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
10:00am |
Suvi Gezari (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
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Status of Shock Breakout Observations [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:00am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP)
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Thanks and Awards [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Engines and Outcomes
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11:00am |
Edo Berger (Harvard, CfA)
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Properties and Galaxy Types of Short Hard Bursts [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
11:30am |
Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley)
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Late Time Accretion onto BHs in Merger Events [Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
12:00pm |
Chris Fryer (LANL)
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Double NS Mergers as GRBs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
12:30pm |
Todd Thompson (OSU)
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Birth of Magnetars [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:30pm |
CONFERENCE END |
Shuttle Available to BWSCI. *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus (See Jocelyn to sign up.) |
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Conference Photo (credit: Iair Arcavi)
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ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS
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Carlos Badenes (Princeton)
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Raising the Dead: X-ray Studies of Type Ia Supernova Remnants [Poster] |
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Carlos Badenes (Princeton)
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A Search for Type Ia Supernova Progenitors with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [Poster] |
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Melina Bersten (Univ. Chile)
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Hydrodynamical Models of Type II-P SN Light Curves[Poster] |
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Joanne Bibby (Univ. Sheffield)
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Are Wolf-Rayet Stars Progenitors of Type Ib/c Supernovae?[Poster] |
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Sarah Blake (Univ. Oxford)
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Metallicities and Ages of Type Ia Supernovae Host Galaxies |
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Stephane Blondin (ESO)
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Type Ia Supernova Spectra from the CfA Supernova Program[Poster] |
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Alceste Bonanos (STScI)
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A Survey of the Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe [Poster] |
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Maria Teresa Botticella (Univ. Belfast)
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SN2008S : An Electron Capture SN from a Super AGB Progenitor |
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David Chamulak (MSU)
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The Nucleosynthetic Signature of Surface Detonation in Type Ia Supernovae |
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Emmanouil Chatzopoulos (Univ. Texas - Austin)
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Properties of Over-luminous SNe and Peculiar Transients[Poster] |
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Laura Chomiuk (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison)
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[O III] Emission-Line Sources in Extragalactic Globular Clusters[Poster] |
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Sean Couch (Univ. Texas - Austin)
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Observational Effects of Aspherical Supernovae |
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Nancy Elias de la Rosa (Caltech)
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The Progenitors of Recent Core-Collapse Supernovae |
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David Eichler (Ben Gurion Univ.)
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Signatures of Nearby Gamma Ray Bursts, As Seen by Most Observers |
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Nicolas Flagey (Spitzer Science Ctr)
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Discovery Of Several Hundreds Of Compact-Extended Sources Within The Mipsgal Survey[Poster] |
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Gaston Folatelli (Univ. Chile)
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The Carnegie Supernova Project: Analysis of the First Sample of Low-Redshift Type-Ia Supernovae[Poster] |
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Andrew Friedman (Harvard, CfA)
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Disentangling Dust Extinction and Intrinsic Color Variation of Type Ia Supernovae With Near Infrared and Optical Photometry |
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Haley Gomez (Cardiff Univ.)
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The Importance of Supernovae to the Interstellar Dust Budget [Poster] |
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Haley Gomez (Cardiff Univ.)
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Submillimetre Dust Factory Revealed in Cassiopeia A [Poster] |
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Santiago Gonzalez (Univ. Toronto)
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The Rise-Time of Underluminous SNe Ia[Poster] |
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Jerome Guilet (CEA Saclay)
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What Can Stop the Growth of SASI during Core Collapse? |
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Aaron Jackson (SUNY Stony Brook)
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A Study of the Criteria for a Deflagration to Detonation Transition in a Type Ia Supernova[Poster] |
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Yasuomi Kamiya (Univ. Tokyo)
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Intrinsic Color Dispersion of Type Ia Supernovae [Poster] |
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Knox Long (STScI)
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Supernova Remnants in the ChASeM33 X-ray Survey of M33[Poster] |
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Keiichi Maeda (Univ. Tokyo)
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Nebular Spectra of Type Ib/c and Ia Supernovae, and Their Explosion Asymmetry |
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Kate Maguire (Queen's Univ.)
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Near Infrared Studies of IIP Supernovae and Their Explosion Parameters [Poster] |
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Kaisey Mandel (Harvard)
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Statistical Models for Optical and NIR Type Ia Supernova Light Curves |
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Howie Marion (U Texas/TAMU)
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Exploring Correlations between NIR Spectra and the Brightness of Type Ia Supernovae |
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Curtis McCully (Rutgers)
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HST and Ground-Based Observations of SN 2008A: A Peculiar
2002cx-like Type Ia Supernova[Poster] |
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Adam Miller (UC Berkeley)
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Results from Recent Observations of Very Luminous Supernovae |
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Milos Milosavljevic (Univ. Texas - Austin)
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Collapsar Accretion and The Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Light Curve |
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Takashi Moriya (Univ. Tokyo)
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Faint Supernovae with Fallback [Poster] |
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Jeremiah Murphy (Univ. Washington)
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Criteria for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions by the Neutrino Mechanism[Poster] |
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Jeremiah Murphy (Univ. Washington)
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A Model for Gravitational Wave Emission from Neutrino-Driven Core-Collapse Supernovae[Poster] |
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James D. Neill (Caltech)
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Exploring Galaxy Evolution with Supernovae [Poster] |
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Jason Nordhaus (Princeton)
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Explorations in Modern Supernova Theory [Poster] |
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Andrea Pastorello (Queen's Univ.)
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Subluminous Core-Collapse Supernovae |
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Giuliano Pignata (Univ. Andres Bello)
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Results from the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE [Poster] |
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Tony Piro (UC Berkeley)
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Shock Breakout from Type Ia Supernova[Poster] |
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Jose Luis Prieto (OSU)
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A Spitzer/IRS Spectrum of the 2008 Luminous Transient in
NGC 300: Connection to Proto-Planetary Nebulae |
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Jeonghee Rho (Caltech)
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Dust Formation Observed in Young Supernova Remnants with Spitzer |
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Sumner Starrfield (ASU)
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New Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Outburst of RS Oph: The
White Dwarf is Growing in Mass |
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Katalin Takats (Univ. Szeged)
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Measuring Expansion Velocities, Photospheric Temperatures and Dilution Factors of Type II-P Supernovae[Slides] |
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Frank Timmes (ASU)
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On Type Ia Supernovae From The Collisions of Two White Dwarfs[Poster] |
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Frank Timmes (ASU)
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Trends in 44 Ti and 56 Ni from Core-Collapse Supernovae[Poster] |
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Nozomu Tominaga (Konan Univ.)
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Multicolor Light Curve of Type II Supernova Shock Breakout |
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Stefano Valenti (Queen's Univ.)
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A Low Energy Core-Collapse Supernova without a Hydrogen Envelope |
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Schuyler Van Dyk (Caltech)
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Post-LBV Supernovae |
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