Benjamin J. Shappee

Denali

Graduate Student
at
Department of Astronomy
The Ohio State University

Contact information:

4055 McPherson Laboratory
140 W 18th Avenue
Columbus
Ohio 43210-1173
Phone: 1-614-292-7881

My complete entry in ADS

    I am a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Astronomy of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and am currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. I was an undergraduate at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where I was awarded the Herman Y. Carr Scholarship and the Richard T. Weidner Prize. For high school, I attended the Science/Engineering Specialized Learning Center housed within Manalapan High School in New Jersey.

    My research focuses on variable objects and triple stellar systems. I have worked on HST Cepheid distances with Prof. Kris Stanek and on the mass-loss induced eccentirc Kozai (MIEK) mechanism in triple systems with Prof. Todd Thompson. Adittionally, I have worked on the constraining the progenitor systems of Type Ia SNe. My thesis will focus on finding nearby supernovae with the next generation All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) telescope ASAS-SN (now pronounced assassin) with undergraduate student Jacob Jencson, Prof. Chris Kochanek and thesis advisor Prof. Kris Stanek.

Education:

2014 (expected) - Ph.D., Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Thesis advisor: Prof. Kris Stanek.

2012 - Master of Science, Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

2009 - Bachelor degree in Astrophysic, Math, and Physics, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Lead Author Publications:

No Stripped Hydrogen in the Nebular Spectra of Nearby Type Ia Supernova 2011fe - a paper with Kris Stanek, Richard Pogge, Peter Garnavich, and me submitted to ApJ. A "coffee brief" video is available below. Our press release can be found here.

Type Ia Single Degenerate Survivors Must Be Overluminous - a paper with Chris Kochanek, Kris Stanek, and me submitted to ApJ. A "coffee brief" video is available below.

The Mass-Loss Induced Eccentric Kozai Mechanism: A New Channel for the Production of Close Compact Object-Stellar Binaries - a paper with Todd Thompson and me submitted to ApJ. A "coffee brief" video is available below.

A New Cepheid Distance to the Giant Spiral M101 Based on Image Subtraction of Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations - a paper with Kris Stanek and me published in ApJ.


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