C. S. Kochanek

Research interests

Publications

• The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars III: variables in the southern TESS continuous viewing zone

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz444

• A noninteracting low-mass black hole–giant star binary system

  Science · 2019 · 10.1126/science.aau4005

• The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars – II. Uniform classification of 412 000 known variables

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz844

• The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars I: The Serendipitous Survey

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty838

• The search for failed supernovae with the Large Binocular Telescope: confirmation of a disappearing star

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2017 · 10.1093/mnras/stx816

• The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0

  ReIn UW (University of Warsaw) · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aa80d9

• SPACE TELESCOPE AND OPTICAL REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT. III. OPTICAL CONTINUUM EMISSION AND BROADBAND TIME DELAYS IN NGC 5548

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637x/821/1/56

• ASASSN-15lh: A highly super-luminous supernova

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac9613

• ASASSN-15oi: a rapidly evolving, luminous tidal disruption event at 216 Mpc

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2272

• SPACE TELESCOPE AND OPTICAL REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT. I. ULTRAVIOLET OBSERVATIONS OF THE SEYFERT 1 GALAXY NGC 5548 WITH THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH ONHUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/806/1/128

• Six months of multiwavelength follow-up of the tidal disruption candidate ASASSN-14li and implied TDE rates from ASAS-SN

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2486

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

  eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2014

• ASASSN-14ae: a tidal disruption event at 200 Mpc

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1922

• MID-INFRARED SELECTION OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI WITH THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER . II. PROPERTIES OF WISE -SELECTED ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI IN THE NDWFS BOÖTES FIELD

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2013 · 10.1088/0004-637x/772/1/26

• A DESCRIPTION OF QUASAR VARIABILITY MEASURED USING REPEATED SDSS AND POSS IMAGING

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2012 · 10.1088/0004-637x/753/2/106

• SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

  The Astronomical Journal · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/142/3/72

• THE EIGHTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST DATA FROM SDSS-III

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/193/2/29

• LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTRAL TEMPLATES FOR ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND GALAXIES FROM 0.03 TO 30 μm

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2010 · 10.1088/0004-637x/713/2/970

• QUANTIFYING QUASAR VARIABILITY AS PART OF A GENERAL APPROACH TO CLASSIFYING CONTINUOUSLY VARYING SOURCES

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/708/2/927

• HOST GALAXIES, CLUSTERING, EDDINGTON RATIOS, AND EVOLUTION OF RADIO, X-RAY, AND INFRARED-SELECTED AGNs

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/696/1/891

• A Survey About Nothing: Monitoring a Million Supergiants for Failed Supernovae

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2008 · 10.1086/590053

• Gravitational Lensing: Strong, Weak and Micro

  Saas-Fee Advanced Course · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30310-7

• Probing the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies Using Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Hosts

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 10.1086/506266

• Black Hole Masses and Eddington Ratios at 0.3 <z< 4

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 10.1086/505646

• UBVRI Light Curves of 44 Type Ia Supernovae

  The Astronomical Journal · 2006 · 10.1086/497989

• Mid‐Infrared Selection of Active Galaxies

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1086/432523

• Quantitative Interpretation of Quasar Microlensing Light Curves

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2004 · 10.1086/382180

• Direct Detection of Cold Dark Matter Substructure

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1086/340303

• The K ‐Band Galaxy Luminosity Function

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1086/322488

• Is There a Cosmological Constant?

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1996 · 10.1086/177538

• Coalescing binary neutron stars

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1992 · 10.1086/171851

• The tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole

  The Astrophysical Journal · 1989 · https://doi.org/10.1086/185567

Current projects

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