Stéphane Blondin

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I am part of the Supernova Group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). My research mainly revolves around the spectroscopic properties of supernovae [more under Research].

I have been actively involved in the ESSENCE project, designed to observe distant Type Ia supernovae. The goal is to determine the nature of the Dark Energy that pervades space by measuring its equation of state.

I defended my PhD thesis, entitled "Optical Spectra of Thermonuclear Supernovae in the Local and Distant Universe", at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich, Germany) in November 2005.

You can view my CV here [pdf]

Recent Publications

[more under Publications]

Time Dilation in Type Ia Supernova Spectra at High Redshift [ADS, astro-ph; see also New Scientist]

Blondin, S., et al. 2008. ApJ, 682, 724

Spectral Identification of an Ancient Supernova using Light Echoes in the LMC [ADS, astro-ph]

Rest, A., et al. 2008. ApJ, 680, 1137

Optical Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernovae [ADS, astro-ph]

Matheson, T., et al. 2008. AJ, 135, 1598

Using Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis to Determine the Properties and Distances of Type II-Plateau Supernovae: SNe 2005cs and 2006bp [ADS, astro-ph]

Dessart, L., et al. 2008. ApJ, 675, 644

Determining the Type, Redshift, and Age of a Supernova Spectrum [ADS, astro-ph]

Blondin, S. & Tonry, J. L. 2007. ApJ, 666, 1024

Last updated on: 22 March 2008