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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Hellman Fellow
  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Joshua S. Bloom is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research focuses predominantly on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with an emphasis on several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's main topics of work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, and Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation.

Joshua S. Bloom has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Joshua S. Bloom include:

  • Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole, 2022, Nature
  • GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf, 2024, Nature
  • A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • J. Sollerman
  • M. M. Kasliwal
  • M. J. Graham
  • D. A. Perley
  • Igor Andreoni

Joshua S. Bloom has received awards such as the Hellman Fellow in 2007 and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

    Željko Ivezić;Steven M. Kahn;J. Anthony Tyson;Bob Abel

  • The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results

    N. M. Law;S. R. Kulkarni;R. G. Dekany;E. O. Ofek

  • The Supernova Gamma-Ray Burst Connection

    S.E. Woosley;J.S. Bloom

  • BEAMING IN GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: EVIDENCE FOR A STANDARD ENERGY RESERVOIR

    D. A. Frail;S. R. Kulkarni;R. Sari;S. G. Djorgovski

  • The Palomar Transient Factory: system overview, performance and first results

    Nicholas M. Law;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Richard G. Dekany;Eran O. Ofek

  • Transient optical emission from the error box of the gamma-ray burst of 28 February 1997

    J vanParadijs;J vanParadijs;PJ Groot;T Galama;C Kouveliotou;C Kouveliotou

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

  • Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory

    Arne Rau;Shrinivas R. Kulkarni;Nicholas M. Law;Joshua S. Bloom

  • The Observed Offset Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts from Their Host Galaxies: A Robust Clue to the Nature of the Progenitors* **

    J. S. Bloom;S. R. Kulkarni;S. G. Djorgovski

  • A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2

    N. R. Tanvir;D. B. Fox;A. J. Levan;E. Berger

  • Radio emission from the unusual supernova 1998bw and its association with the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998

    Shri R. Kulkarni;D. A. Frail;M. H. Wieringa;R. D. Ekers

  • SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae

    Nathan Smith;Weidong Li;Ryan J. Foley;J. Craig Wheeler

  • The unusual afterglow of the γ-ray burst of 26 March 1998 as evidence for a supernova connection

    J. S. Bloom;S. R. Kulkarni;S. G. Djorgovski;A. C. Eichelberger

  • The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the γ-ray burst of 23 January 1999

    [No Value] Kulkarni;SG Djorgovski;SC Odewahn;JS Bloom

  • Sn 2006gy : Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like η carinae

    Nathan Smith;Weidong Li;Ryan J. Foley;J. Craig Wheeler

  • Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42 for the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997

    S. R. Kulkarni;S. G. Djorgovski;A. N. Ramaprakash;A. N. Ramaprakash;R. Goodrich

  • A possible relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star.

    Joshua S. Bloom;Dimitrios Giannios;Brian D. Metzger;S. Bradley Cenko

  • The afterglow, the redshift, and the extreme energetics of the gamma-ray burst 990123

    S. R. Kulkarni;S. G. Djorgovski;S. C. Odewahn;J. S. Bloom

  • 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

  • No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma ray bursts

    Johan P. U. Fynbo;Darach Watson;Christina C. Thöne;Jesper Sollerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
Shrinivas R. Kulkarni California Institute of Technology
Peter Nugent
Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dovi Poznanski
Dovi Poznanski Tel Aviv University
Mansi M. Kasliwal
Mansi M. Kasliwal California Institute of Technology
Dale A. Frail
Dale A. Frail National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Daniel A. Perley
Daniel A. Perley Liverpool John Moores University
Eran O. Ofek
Eran O. Ofek Weizmann Institute of Science
Avishay Gal-Yam
Avishay Gal-Yam Weizmann Institute of Science
Hongzheng Chen
Hongzheng Chen Zhejiang University
Alexei V. Filippenko
Alexei V. Filippenko University of California, Berkeley

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