Nominator's project description
| Dr. Blondin is internationally recognized for his seminal contributions to the physics of stellar explosions and their use in cosmology. He demonstrated how cosmic time dilation, a prediction of General Relativity, works in the evolution of very distant supernovae. Dr. Blondin also provides deep insight into stellar thermonuclear explosions and how light emerges from these cosmic cauldrons. In Germany, he contributes to a project to measure the cosmic expansion rate with supernovae |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Blondin, S.: Type Ia supernovae. In: Ilya Mandel, Jeffrey Andrews, Encyclopedia of Astrophysics. Elsevier, 2025. |
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| 2024 | Kwok, L. et al.: Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: II. Evidence from Nebular Spectroscopy for a Violent Merger in a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 966, 2024, 135 |
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| 2024 | Siebert, M. et al.: Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: I. Unusual Signatures of Carbon, Oxygen, and Circumstellar Interaction in a Peculiar Type Ia Supernova. In: The Astrophysical Journal, 960, 2024, 88 |
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| 2023 | Blondin, S., Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J., Ramsbottom, C. A., Storey, P. J.: Nebular spectra from Type Ia supernova explosion models compared to JWST observations of SN 2021aefx. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, 2023, A170 |
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| 2023 | Csörnyei, G. et al.: Reeling in the Whirlpool: the distance to M 51 clarified by Cepheids and the Type IIP SN 2005cs. In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, 678, 2023, A44 |
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