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Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Nicholas B. Suntzeff

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Physics

D-Index
122
Citations
82470
World Ranking
744
National Ranking
409

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For essential contributions and leadership in observational cosmology and astrophysics investigations into the phenomenology of Type Ia supernovae which laid the groundwork for the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe and for cofounding one of the two teams that made this discovery

Overview

Nicholas B. Suntzeff is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Astro and Planetary Science

Among recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Nicholas B. Suntzeff are:

  • Type II supernovae from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I, 2021, Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • An atlas of spectrophotometric landolt standard stars, 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Carnegie Supernova Project II: The Slowest Rising Type Ia Supernova LSQ14fmg and Clues to the Origin of Super-Chandrasekhar/03fg-like Events, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Carnegie Supernova Project: The First Homogeneous Sample of Super-Chandrasekhar-mass/2003fg-like Type Ia Supernovae, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Carnegie Supernova Project-II: Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Stripped-envelope Core-collapse Supernovae, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent coauthors in Nicholas B. Suntzeff's work include:

  • M. Stritzinger
  • M. M. Phillips
  • L. Galbany
  • C. Ashall
  • C. R. Burns

Scientific findings by Nicholas B. Suntzeff have been published extensively in several prominent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters

In 2017, Nicholas B. Suntzeff was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation for essential contributions and leadership in observational cosmology and astrophysics, particularly investigating Type Ia supernovae which contributed to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe and for cofounding one of the two teams involved in this discovery.

Best Publications

  • Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

    Adam G. Riess;Alexei V. Filippenko;Peter Challis;Alejandro Clocchiatti

  • Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae* **

    John L. Tonry;Brian P. Schmidt;Brian Barris;Pablo Candia

  • The High-Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Curvature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae*

    Brian P. Schmidt;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;M. M. Phillips;Robert A. Schommer

  • Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

    M.Kowalski;D.Rubin;G.Aldering;R.J.Agostinho

  • The High-Z Supernova Search: Measuring Cosmic Deceleration and Global Cur vature of the Universe Using Type Ia Supernovae

    Brian P. Schmidt;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;M. M. Phillips;Robert A. Schommer

  • Supernova limits on the cosmic equation of state

    Peter M. Garnavich;Saurabh Jha;Peter Challis;Alejandro Clocchiatti

  • Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey

    W. M. Wood-Vasey;G. Miknaitis;C. W. Stubbs;Saurabh Jha;Saurabh Jha

  • Constraints on Cosmological Models from Hubble Space Telescope Observations of High-z Supernovae

    P. M. Garnavich;R. P. Kirshner;P. Challis;J. Tonry

  • The reddening-free decline rate versus luminosity relationship for type ia supernovae

    M. M. Phillips;Paulina Lira;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;R. A. Schommer

  • Southern spectrophotometric standards. I

    Mario Hamuy;A. R. Walker;N. B. Suntzeff;P. Gigoux

  • Scrutinizing Exotic Cosmological Models Using ESSENCE Supernova Data Combined with Other Cosmological Probes

    Tamara Davis;Edvard Mörtsell;Jesper Sollerman;Jesper Sollerman;A. C. Becker

  • The Absolute Luminosities of the Calan/Tololo Type Ia Supernovae

    Mario Hamuy;M.M. Phillips;Robert A. Schommer;Nicholas B. Suntzeff

  • A Hubble diagram of distant type IA supernovae

    Mario Hamuy;M. M. Phillips;Jose Maza;Nicholas B. Suntzeff

  • 23 High Redshift Supernovae from the IfA Deep Survey: Doubling the SN Sample at z>0.7

    Brian J. Barris;John Tonry;Stephane Blondin;Peter Challis

  • Twenty-Three High-Redshift Supernovae from the Institute for Astronomy Deep Survey: Doubling the Supernova Sample at z > 0.7 * **

    Brian J. Barris;John L. Tonry;Stéphane Blondin;Peter Challis

  • New Understanding of Large Magellanic Cloud Structure, Dynamics, and Orbit from Carbon Star Kinematics

    Roeland P. van der Marel;David R. Alves;Eduardo Hardy;Nicholas B. Suntzeff

  • The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Photometry Data Release of Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae

    Carlos Contreras;Mario Hamuy;M. M. Phillips;Gaston Folatelli

  • An asymptotic-giant-branch star in the progenitor system of a type Ia supernova.

    Mario Hamuy;M. M. Phillips;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;José Maza

  • SN 1991T: Further Evidence of the Heterogeneous Nature of Type IA Supernovae

    M. M. Phillips;Lisa A. Wells;Nicholas B. Suntzeff;Mario Hamuy

  • Report of the Dark Energy Task Force

    Andreas Albrecht;Wayne Hu;Marc Kamionkowski;Wendy L. Freedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark M. Phillips
Mark M. Phillips Carnegie Institution for Science
Mario Hamuy
Mario Hamuy University of Chile
Maximilian Stritzinger
Maximilian Stritzinger Aarhus University
Nidia Morrell
Nidia Morrell Carnegie Learning
Robert P. Kirshner
Robert P. Kirshner Harvard University
Alexei V. Filippenko
Alexei V. Filippenko University of California, Berkeley
Wendy L. Freedman
Wendy L. Freedman University of Chicago
Brian P. Schmidt
Brian P. Schmidt Australian National University
Peter M. Garnavich
Peter M. Garnavich University of Notre Dame
S. E. Persson
S. E. Persson Carnegie Institution for Science

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