Or Graur Portrait

Dr Or Graur

Associate Professor in Astrophysics

Or.Graur@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Technology Cosmology and astrophysics Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation

Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, as well as a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. In 2013, I received my PhD in Physics and Astronomy from Tel-Aviv University. I then held two postdoctoral research positions at The Johns Hopkins University (2013-2014) and New York University (2014-2016), before moving to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian as an independent National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2020).

Research interests

I study supernovae - the explosions of stars - as well as other transient astrophysical phenomena. I use observations (images and spectra) obtained with ground- and space-based observatories and large-scale spectroscopic surveys (such as SDSS and DESI). I am specifically interested in uncovering the nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae, studying these supernovae when they are several years old, and conducting population studies of supernovae in general. I am also working on discovering and characterizing tidal disruption events - flares caused by stars that are ripped apart by super-massive black holes - and the galaxies in which they occur.

Research outputs

2024

Ackley, K., Awiphan, S., Belkin, S., Breton, R. P., Chote, P., Clark, P., Coppejans, D., Dhillon, V. S., Duffy, C., Dyer, M. J., Eyles-Ferris, R., Galloway, D. K., Godson, B., Gompertz, B., Graur, O., Irawati, P., Jarvis, D., Jiménez-Ibarra, F., Julakanti, Y., Kelsey, L., Kennedy, M. R., Killestein, T. L., Kotak, R., Krawczyk, C., Kumar, A., Kuncarayakti, H., Levan, A., Littlefair, S., Lyman, J., Magee, M., Mandhai, S., Mattila, S., McCormac, J., Mullaney, J., Munday, J., Noysena, K., Nuttall, L., O'Brien, P., O'Neill, D., Pallé, E., Patel, M., Pollacco, D., Pursiainen, M., Ramsay, G., Rana, J., Sawangwit, U., Stanway, E., Starling, R., Steeghs, D., Sánchez, D. M., Ulaczyk, K., Warwick, B., Wickens, E., Wiersema, K.

1 Sep 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533, 2, p. 2113-2132

Adame, A. G., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Alam, S., Aldering, G., Alexander, D. M., Alfarsy, R., Alvarez, M., Alves, O., Anand, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Armengaud, E., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Aviles, A., Balaguera-Antolínez, A., Ballester, O., Baltay, C., Bault, A., Bautista, J., Behera, J., Beltran, S. F., BenZvi, S., Bermejo-Climent, J. R., Berti, A., Besuner, R., Beutler, F., Bianchi, D., Blake, C., Blum, R., Canning, R., Gil-Marín, H., Gonzalez-Perez, V., Graur, O., Howlett, C., Manera, M., Mueller, E., Nadathur, S., Percival, W. J., Pieri, M., Prieto, C. A., Ross, A. J., Ruggeri, R., Sabiu, C. G., Samushia, L., Silva, L. B. e., Tojeiro, R., Wang, M. S.

1 Aug 2024, In: The Astronomical Journal. 168, 2, 33p., 58

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1 Aug 2024, In: The MIT Press Reader

Abojanb, W., Anderson, J. P., Arcavi, I., Bostroem, K. A., Brink, T. G., Charalampopoulos, P., Clark, P., Farah, J., Faris, S., Filippenko, A. V., French, K. D., Galbany, L., Gonzalez, E. P., Graur, O., Gromadzki, M., Gutierrez, C. P., Heikkila, T., Hiramatsu, D., Howell, D. A., Inserra, C., Johansson, J., Kankare, E., Lam, M. C., Leloudas, G., Makrygianni, L., Mattila, S., McCully, C., Newsome, M., Nicholl, M., Onori, F., Pellegrino, C., Reynolds, T., Terreran, G., Tomasella, L., Wang, Y., Wevers, T.

10 Jul 2024, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 969, 2, 24p., 104

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1 Jun 2024, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530, 4, p. 4950-4960

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3 May 2024, In: The Conversation

Andrews, J. E., Ashall, C., Auchettl, K., Badenes, C., Barna, B., Blondin, S., Bostroem, K. A., Brink, T. G., Bustamante-Rosell, M. J., Camacho-Neves, Y., Clocchiatti, A., Coulter, D. A., Davis, K. W., Deckers, M., DerKacy, J. M., Dessart, L., Dimitriadis, G., Dong, Y., Farah, J., Filippenko, A. V., Flors, A., Foley, R. J., Fox, O. D., Galbany, L., Garnavich, P., Gonzalez, E. P., Graur, O., Hambsch, F., Hillier, D. J., Hoeflich, P., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Hughes, J. P., Jaeger, T. d., Jha, S. W., Johansson, J., Kerzendorf, W. E., Kwok, L. A., Larison, C., Lu, J., Maeda, K., Maguire, K., Maund, J., McCully, C., Medler, K., Mihalenko, C., Morrell, N., Newman, M. J. B., Newsome, M., O'Brien, J. T., Pakmor, R., Pearson, J., Pellegrino, C., Pierel, J. D. R., Polin, A., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C., Sand, D. J., Saux, X. K. L., Schwab, M., Shahbandeh, M., Shappee, B. J., Shrestha, M., Siebert, M. R., Smith, N., Stritzinger, M., Strolger, L., Suntzeff, N., Szalai, T., Taggart, K., Temim, T., Terreran, G., Terwel, J. H., Tinyanont, S., Tucker, M., Valenti, S., Vinko, J., Wang, L., Wheeler, J. C., Yang, Y., Zheng, W.

1 May 2024, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 966, 1, 18p., 135

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8 Apr 2024, In: Scientific American

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29 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. 27, 1, p. 28-45

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22 Mar 2024, In: The Conversation