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Stefano Valenti is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research activity is primarily situated within the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, General Health Professions, and Oceanography.

Valenti's work covers numerous topics, notably Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Astro and Planetary Science, and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

Among recent publications by Valenti are:

  • Intensive disc-reverberation mapping of Fairall 9: first year of Swift and LCO monitoring, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • A Luminous Red Supergiant and Dusty Long-period Variable Progenitor for SN 2023ixf, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Shock Cooling and Possible Precursor Emission in the Early Light Curve of the Type II SN 2023ixf, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Valenti include:

  • D. A. Howell
  • C. McCully
  • David J. Sand
  • Jennifer E. Andrews
  • Yize Dong

Valenti commonly publishes in these scientific venues:

  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • The Man Behind the Curtain: X-rays Drive the UV through NIR Variability in the 2013 AGN Outburst in NGC 2617

    B. J. Shappee;J. L. Prieto;D. Grupe;C. S. Kochanek

  • THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: X-RAYS DRIVE THE UV THROUGH NIR VARIABILITY IN THE 2013 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS OUTBURST IN NGC 2617

    B. J. Shappee;J. L. Prieto;D. Grupe;C. S. Kochanek

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

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

  • 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

  • Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae discovered during the first 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey

    A. Rest;D. Scolnic;R. J. Foley;M. E. Huber

  • Super-luminous Type Ic Supernovae: Catching a Magnetar by the Tail

    C. Inserra;S.J. Smartt;A. Jerkstrand;S. Valenti

  • A giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star

    A. Pastorello;S. J. Smartt;S. Mattila;J. J. Eldridge

  • Ultra-bright optical transients are linked with type Ic supernovae

    A. Pastorello;S. J. Smartt;M. T. Botticella;K. Maguire

  • Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

    B. P. Abbott;R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;M. R. Abernathy

  • PESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

    S. J. Smartt;S. Valenti;M. Fraser;C. Inserra

  • Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae Discovered During the First 1.5 Yr of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey

    Armin Wolfgang Rest;D. Scolnic;R. J. Foley;R. J. Foley;M. E. Huber

  • The broad‐lined Type Ic supernova 2003jd★

    S. Valenti;S. Benetti;E. Cappellaro;F. Patat

  • Confined dense circumstellar material surrounding a regular type II supernova

    O. Yaron;D. A. Perley;D. A. Perley;A. Gal-Yam;J. H. Groh

  • The diversity of Type II supernova versus the similarity in their progenitors

    S. Valenti;D. A. Howell;D. A. Howell;M. D. Stritzinger;M. L. Graham

  • Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

    M. Nicholl;S. J. Smartt;A. Jerkstrand;C. Inserra

  • The Discovery of the Electromagnetic Counterpart of GW170817: Kilonova AT 2017gfo/DLT17ck

    Stefano Valenti;David J. Sand;Sheng Yang;Enrico Cappellaro

  • SN 2005cs in M51 II. Complete Evolution in the Optical and the Near-Infrared

    A. Pastorello;S. Valenti;L. Zampieri;H. Navasardyan

  • The Broad-lined Type Ic SN 2003jd

    S. Valenti;S. Benetti;E. Cappellaro;F. Patat

  • INTERACTING SUPERNOVAE AND SUPERNOVA IMPOSTORS: SN 2009ip, IS THIS THE END?

    A. Pastorello;E. Cappellaro;C. Inserra;S. J. Smartt

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo A. Mazzali
Paolo A. Mazzali Liverpool John Moores University
Nancy Elias-Rosa
Nancy Elias-Rosa Spanish National Research Council
Andrea Pastorello
Andrea Pastorello National Institute for Astrophysics
Avishay Gal-Yam
Avishay Gal-Yam Weizmann Institute of Science
Stefano Benetti
Stefano Benetti National Institute for Astrophysics
Jesper Sollerman
Jesper Sollerman Stockholm University
Enrico Cappellaro
Enrico Cappellaro National Institute for Astrophysics
Peter Nugent
Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark Sullivan
Mark Sullivan University of Southampton
Maximilian Stritzinger
Maximilian Stritzinger Aarhus University

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