Stuart Sim

Research interests

Publications

• The Cow: Discovery of a Luminous, Hot, and Rapidly Evolving Transient

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2018 · 10.3847/2041-8213/aadd90

• A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source

  Nature · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24303

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

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425237

• Deflagrations in hybrid CONe white dwarfs: a route to explain the faint Type Iax supernova 2008ha

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · 10.1093/mnras/stv886

• Deflagrations in hybrid CONe white dwarfs: a route to explain the faint Type Iax supernova 2008ha

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · 10.1093/mnras/stv886

• Deflagrations in hybrid CONe white dwarfs: a route to explain the faint Type Iax supernova 2008ha

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · 10.1093/mnras/stv886

• On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015 · 10.1093/mnras/stv1522

• The ejected mass distribution of Type Ia supernovae: a significant rate of non-Chandrasekhar-mass progenitors

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu1808

• A spectral synthesis code for rapid modelling of supernovae

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu055

• Type Ia supernova bolometric light curves and ejected mass estimates from the Nearby Supernova Factory

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu350

• Type Ia supernova bolometric light curves and ejected mass estimates from the Nearby Supernova Factory

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu350

• The ejected mass distribution of Type Ia supernovae: a significant rate of non-Chandrasekhar-mass progenitors

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu1808

• The ejected mass distribution of Type Ia supernovae: a significant rate of non-Chandrasekhar-mass progenitors

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu1808

• Type Ia supernova bolometric light curves and ejected mass estimates from the Nearby Supernova Factory

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014 · 10.1093/mnras/stu350

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

  Nature · 2013 · 10.1038/nature12569

• Three-dimensional pure deflagration models with nucleosynthesis and synthetic observables for Type Ia supernovae

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2013 · 10.1093/mnras/stt2315

• On the brightness distribution of Type Ia supernovae from violent white dwarf mergers

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2012 · 10.1093/mnras/sts423

• NORMAL TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE FROM VIOLENT MERGERS OF WHITE DWARF BINARIES

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2012 · 10.1088/2041-8205/747/1/l10

• CONSTRAINING TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA MODELS: SN 2011fe AS A TEST CASE

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2012 · 10.1088/2041-8205/750/1/l19

• 3D deflagration simulations leaving bound remnants: a model for 2002cx-like Type Ia supernovae★

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2012 · 10.1093/mnras/sts498

• On the brightness distribution of Type Ia supernovae from violent white dwarf mergers

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2012 · 10.1093/mnras/sts423

• Three-dimensional delayed-detonation models with nucleosynthesis for Type Ia supernovae

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2012 · 10.1093/mnras/sts402

• 2D simulations of the double-detonation model for thermonuclear transients from low-mass carbon-oxygen white dwarfs

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2012 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20162.x

• On the brightness distribution of Type Ia supernovae from violent white dwarf mergers

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2012 · 10.1093/mnras/sts423

• Delay times and rates for Type Ia supernovae and thermonuclear explosions from double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar mass models

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19276.x

• DETONATIONS IN SUB-CHANDRASEKHAR-MASS C+O WHITE DWARFS

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2010 · 10.1088/2041-8205/714/1/l52

• The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism

  · 2010 · 10.4324/9780203451649

• Multidimensional modelling of X-ray spectra for AGN accretion disc outflows - III. Application to a hydrodynamical simulation

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17215.x

• Sub-luminous type Ia supernovae from the mergers of equal-mass white dwarfs with mass ∼0.9M⊙

  Nature · 2010 · 10.1038/nature08642

• Double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae: can minimum helium shell masses detonate the core?

  Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2010 · 10.1051/0004-6361/200913892

• DOUBLE-DETONATION SUB-CHANDRASEKHAR SUPERNOVAE: SYNTHETIC OBSERVABLES FOR MINIMUM HELIUM SHELL MASS MODELS

  The Astrophysical Journal · 2010 · 10.1088/0004-637x/719/2/1067

• Time-dependent three-dimensional spectrum synthesis for Type Ia supernovae

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2009 · 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15256.x

Current projects

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