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Alex Filippenko is a Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley. His accomplishments, documented in more than 1120 research papers,…
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Luminous Type II Short-plateau SN 2023ufx: Asymmetric Explosion of a Partially Stripped Massive Progenitor
Aravind P. Ravi, S. Valenti, Yize Dong, D. Hiramatsu, Stan Barmentloo, Anders Jerkstrand, K. Azalee Bostroem, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha, Jennifer E. Andrews, David J. Sand, G. Hosseinzadeh, M. Lundquist, Emily Hoang, Darshana Mehta, N. Meza, Aidan Martas, Saurabh W. Jha, Daryl Janzen, Bhagya Subrayan, D. A. Howell, C. McCully, Joseph Farah, Megan Newsome, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, G. Terreran, Moira Andrews, Alexei V Filippenko, Thomas G. Brink, WeiKang Zheng, Yi Yang, J. Vinkó, J. C. Wheeler, Nathan Smith, Jeonghee Rho, Réka Könyves-Tóth, C. P. Gutiérrez (2025). Luminous Type II Short-plateau SN 2023ufx: Asymmetric Explosion of a Partially Stripped Massive Progenitor. , 982(1), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adb0bb.
Article10 days agoConstraining the z $\sim$ 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403
Sung Kei Li, J. M. Diego, Ashish Kumar Meena, Jeremy Lim, Leo W. H. Fung, Arsen Levitskiy, James Nianias, Jose M. Palencia, Hayley Williams, Jiashuo Zhang, Alfred Amruth, Tom Broadhurst, Wenlei Chen, Alexei V Filippenko, Patrick L. Kelly, Anton M. Koekemoer, Derek Perera, Bangzheng Sun, Liliya L. R. Williams, Rogier A. Windhorst, Haojing Yan, Adi Zitrin (2025). Constraining the z $\sim$ 1 Initial Mass Function with {\it HST} and {\it JWST} Lensed Stars in MACS J0416.1-2403. , DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2504.06992.
Preprint10 days agoAn axisymmetric shock breakout indicated by prompt polarized emission from the type II supernova 2024ggi
Yi Yang, Xudong Wen, Lifan Wang, D. Baade, J. C. Wheeler, Alexei V Filippenko, A. Gal‐Yam, Justyn R. Maund, S. Schulze, Xiaofeng Wang, C. Ashall, Mattia Bulla, Aleksandar Cikota, H. Gao, P. Hoêflich, Gaici Li, Divya Mishra, F. Patat, Kishore C. Patra, Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Shengyu Yan (2025). An axisymmetric shock breakout indicated by prompt polarized emission from the type II supernova 2024ggi. , 11(46), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx2925.
Article3 days agoGRB 170519A: Thermal Radiation in an X-Ray Flare and Decaying Magnetic Fields for the Early-time Afterglow
Zi-Min Zhou, Liang-Jun Chen, Rui-Quan Li, Xiang-Gao Wang, Li Xing-Ling, En‐Wei Liang, WeiKang Zheng, Alexei V Filippenko (2025). GRB 170519A: Thermal Radiation in an X-Ray Flare and Decaying Magnetic Fields for the Early-time Afterglow. , 984(1), DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adc45c.
Article10 days agoA thermonuclear supernova interacting with hydrogen- and helium-deficient circumstellar material
K. Tsalapatas, J. Sollerman, R. Chiba, Erik C. Kool, J. Johansson, S. Rosswog, S. Schulze, Takashi J. Moriya, I. Andreoni, Thomas G. Brink, T.X. Chen, Sofia Covarrubias, K. De, G. Dimitriadis, Alexei V Filippenko, C. Fremling, A. Gangopadhyay, K. Maguire, Geoffrey Mo, Y. Sharma, Niharika Sravan, J. Terwel, Yi Yang (2025). A thermonuclear supernova interacting with hydrogen- and helium-deficient circumstellar material. , 704, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202556369.
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