Krzysztof Stanek

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Krzysztof Stanek
EducationPhD (1996)
Alma materPrinceton University
AwardsBeatrice M. Tinsley Prize
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
InstitutionsOhio State University

Krzysztof Stanek is an observational astrophysicist and Professor and University Distinguished Scholar at Ohio State University. He was named a University Distinguished Scholar in 2018. His research focus is on the explosive deaths of massive stars.[1]

In 2022, Stanek was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[2] He won the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize along with Professor Christopher Kochanek in 2020 for their work on the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)[3] project.[4][5] He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been the recipient of a Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Polish Astronomical Society Young Astronomer Award and a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellowship.[6][7]

Selected articles

  • 2006: Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away, KZ Stanek, OY Gnedin, JF Beacom et al. 2006, AcA, 56, 333 [140]
  • 2003: Spectroscopic Discovery of the Supernova 2003dh Associated with GRB 030329 ”, KZ Stanek, T. Matheson, PM Garnavich et al. 2003, ApJ, 591, L17 [699]
  • 1999: BVRI Observations of the Optical Afterglow of GRB 990510, KZ Stanek, PM Garnavich, J. Kalużny et al. 1999, ApJ, 522, L39 [200]
  • 1998: Distance to M31 with the HST and Hipparcos Red Clump Stars, KZ Stanek and PM Garnavich, 1998, ApJ, 503, L131 [234]

Books

The Fate of the Most Massive Stars, 2005, ASP Conference Series Volume 332, RM Humphreys and KZ Stanek (publishers)

The Variable Universe: A Celebration of Bohdan Paczyński, 2009, ASP Conference Series, Volume 403, KZ Stanek (publisher).

References

  1. ^ "Tom Holoien - ASAS-SN". users.obs.carnegiescience.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  2. ^ "Meet Our 2022 Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  3. ^ Kochanek, C. S.; Shappee, B. J.; Stanek, K. Z.; Holoien, T. W.-S.; Thompson, Todd A.; Prieto, J.-L.; Dong, Subo; Shields, J. V.; Will, D.; Britt, C.; Perzanowski, D. (2017-10-01). "The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) Light Curve Server v1.0". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 129 (980): 104502. doi:10.1088/1538-3873/aa80d9. ISSN 0004-6280.
  4. ^ "Krzysztof Stanek". astronomy.osu.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  5. ^ "ASAS-SN's Homepage". www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  6. ^ "Krzysztof Stanek, Astronomy | Office of Research". Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  7. ^ "Krzysztof Stanek". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
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