Dom Rowan (Ph.D. expected 2025)

and have worked with in the past:

  Jose Luis Prieto (Ph.D. 2009)   Ben Shappee (2014)

  Jon Brown (2018)   Tom Holoien (2017)   Tharindu Jayasinghe (2022)   Rubab Khan (2014)   Patrick Vallely (2022)

My Research:

See my CV (long format, updated January 2024).

See all my papers or papers since 2005 (ADS).

All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or "Assassin").

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Yep, I have won some awards:

  2022 Guggenheim Fellowship

  2020 AAS Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (with Chris Kochanek)

  2018 OSU Distinguished Scholar

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Some of the press releases based on my and my collaborators activities:

OSU press release on a likely ``mass gap'' black hole paper (October 2019).

OSU and NASA press releases about our TDE ASASSN-19bt paper (September 2019).

Ohio State University press release about our ASASSN-18tb paper (July 2019).

The big star that couldn’t become a supernova (May 2017).

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards $2.4 Million to Ohio State University astronomers (January 2017).

ASASSN-15lh: The Most Powerful Supernova Ever Discovered! (January 2016).

NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find "Twins" of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies (January 2016).

``Assassin'' Targets Supernovae in Our Neighborhood of the Universe (January 2015).

Lucky Star Escapes Black Hole With Minor Damage (October 2014).

Could a Milky Way Supernova Be Visible from Earth in Next 50 Years? (November 2013).

Astronomers Pin Down Origins of "Mile Markers" for Expansion of Universe (November 2012).

In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt "Signal of Impending Doom" (November 2011).

Giant Star Goes Supernova -- And Is Smothered By Its Own Dust (October 2010).

To 300 Million Light Years, And Beyond! A New Way To Measure Cosmic Distances (June 2009).

Two New Star Systems Are First Of Their Kind Ever Found (March 2008).

Astronomers Crunch Numbers, Universe Gets Bigger (August 2006).

Deadly Astronomical Event Not Likely To Happen In Our Galaxy, Study Finds (April 2006).

Case of Sedna's Missing Moon Solved (April 2005).

Double Stars Emerge As New Heavyweight Champions (May 2004).

Historic GRB Discovery (June 2003).

Culprit Caught in Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery (May 2002).

Little Giants Create A Big Cosmic Controversy (January 2000).

Many of these press releases have generated a good amount of press coverage, too much to list here, but you should be able to find some of these press stories using Google.

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Selected astronomical links:

Hubble Fellowship: my second postdoc (1999-2000).
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Fellowship: my first postdoc (1996-99).
Princeton University Observatory, where I went to the grad school (1992-96).

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