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  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For leadership in developing predictive theories and models of supernova light curves and spectra, impacting our understanding of the widthluminosity relation in Type Ia supernova, the transient optical and IR signals from neutron star mergers, supernova explosion mechanisms, and nucleosynthesis

Overview

Daniel Kasen is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their primary field of study is Physics and Astronomy, with a focused expertise in subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Oceanography, and Applied Mathematics.

Kasen's body of work includes 111 publications in Physics and Astronomy, with a majority concentrating on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research covers several specialized topics including gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, pulsars and gravitational waves research, astrophysical phenomena and observations, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, mechanics and biomechanics studies, as well as astrophysics and star formation studies.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Exascale applications: skin in the game, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • The rapid reddening and featureless optical spectra of the optical counterpart of GW170817, at 2017gfo, during the first four days, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Radiative Emission Mechanisms of Tidal Disruption Events, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book, 2021, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Nebular Models of Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernovae: Clues to the Origin of Ca-rich Transients, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal

Kasen collaborates frequently with other scientists, including Brian D. Metzger, A. Rest, Nathaniel Roth, R. J. Foley, and R. Margutti.

Their publications appear most often in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Daniel Kasen was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2017. The citation recognized their leadership in developing predictive theories and models related to supernova light curves and spectra, particularly influencing the understanding of the width-luminosity relation in Type Ia supernovae, transient optical and infrared signals from neutron star mergers, supernova explosion mechanisms, and nucleosynthesis processes.

Best Publications

  • Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r‐process nuclei

    B. D. Metzger;G. Martínez-Pinedo;S. Darbha;E. Quataert

  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;F. Acernese;F. Acernese

  • Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event

    Daniel Kasen;Brian Metzger;Jennifer Barnes;Eliot Quataert

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models

    P. S. Cowperthwaite;E. Berger;V. A. Villar;B. D. Metzger

  • Supernova Light Curves Powered by Young Magnetars

    Daniel Kasen;Lars Bildsten

  • Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source

    D. A. Coulter;R. J. Foley;C. D. Kilpatrick;M. R. Drout

  • Light curves of the neutron star merger GW170817/SSS17a: Implications for r-process nucleosynthesis

    M. R. Drout;A. L. Piro;B. J. Shappee;C. D. Kilpatrick

  • EFFECT OF A HIGH OPACITY ON THE LIGHT CURVES OF RADIOACTIVELY POWERED TRANSIENTS FROM COMPACT OBJECT MERGERS

    Jennifer Barnes;Jennifer Barnes;Daniel Kasen;Daniel Kasen

  • Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star

    Peter E. Nugent;Peter E. Nugent;Mark Sullivan;S. Bradley Cenko;Rollin C. Thomas

  • Optical emission from a kilonova following a gravitational-wave-detected neutron-star merger

    Iair Arcavi;Iair Arcavi;Griffin Hosseinzadeh;Griffin Hosseinzadeh;D. Andrew Howell;D. Andrew Howell;Curtis McCully;Curtis McCully

  • Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion.

    Avishay Gal-Yam;P. Mazzali;E. O. Ofek;P. E. Nugent

  • Opacities and Spectra of the $r$-process Ejecta from Neutron Star Mergers

    Daniel Kasen;Daniel Kasen;N. R. Badnell;Jennifer Barnes;Jennifer Barnes

  • Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

    M. M. Kasliwal;E. Nakar;L. P. Singer;L. P. Singer;D. L. Kaplan

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera

    M. Soares-Santos;M. Soares-Santos;D. E. Holz;J. Annis;R. Chornock

  • The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South

    R. Chornock;E. Berger;D. Kasen;P. S. Cowperthwaite

  • Time-dependent Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Calculations for Three-dimensional Supernova Spectra, Light Curves, and Polarization

    Daniel Kasen;Daniel Kasen;R.C. Thomas;Peter Nugent

  • Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Models for Supernovae

    S. E. Woosley;Daniel Kasen;Daniel Kasen

  • SEEING THE COLLISION OF A SUPERNOVA WITH ITS COMPANION STAR

    Daniel Kasen

  • Time Dependent Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Calculations For 3-Dimensional Supernova Spectra, Lightcurves, and Polarization

    Daniel Kasen;R. C. Thomas;Peter Nugent

  • Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Models For Type Ia Supernovae

    S. E. Woosley;Daniel Kasen

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz University of California, Santa Cruz
Peter M. Garnavich
Peter M. Garnavich University of Notre Dame
Eliot Quataert
Eliot Quataert Princeton University
Brian D. Metzger
Brian D. Metzger Columbia University
Peter Nugent
Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ryan J. Foley
Ryan J. Foley University of California, Santa Cruz
Marcelle Soares-Santos
Marcelle Soares-Santos Brandeis University
Barry F. Madore
Barry F. Madore Carnegie Institution for Science
Alexei V. Filippenko
Alexei V. Filippenko University of California, Berkeley
Stefano Valenti
Stefano Valenti University of California, Davis

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