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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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18th January 2008 Supernova Factory NGC 2770
19th July 2005 A Nearby Supernova in M51
SN 2005bf
27th October 2005 The Last Titan
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Dr. Maryam Modjaz
I am a Miller
Postdoctoral Fellow in Astronomy
at UC Berkeley . My research
consists of understanding the explosive deaths of massive stars: Type Ib/c
Supernovae (SN Ib/c), Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs), the SN-GRB connection and their host environments.
I collaborate with Prof. Alex
Filippenko and Prof. Josh Bloom, and
their respective groups.
In 2007, I completed my PhD at Harvard University
Department of Astronomy,
working with Prof. Bob
Kirshner. I was awarded the Fireman Prize from the
Harvard Astronomy Department for outstanding dissertation work.
For my PhD thesis, I studied the explosions of massive stars: to comprehensively
characterize the class of envelope-stripped supernovae due to core-collapse and
to illuminate the SN-GRB connection. At the CfA, I was part of the
Supernova Group
at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics. I am also a member of the SWIFT SN Team.
Research Interests:
Supernovae, SN-GRB Connection, Environments of SN and GRBs
Maryam in the News - Press on my work on SN 2008D:
Press
release
NPR
Interview
Physics Today - August 2008 Article
CS Monitor,
Daily
Cal (Berkeley based Newspaper)
Astronomy
Now Online
McClatchy Newspapers, E
Science News, ScienceDaily
online story
Paper:
Modjaz, M. et al., 2008, "From Shock
Breakout to Peak and Beyond: Extensive Panchromatic Observations of the
Aspherical Type Ib Supernova 2008D associated with Swift X-ray Transient
080109", ApJ, submitted (arXiv:0805.2201)[as pdf ]
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