Avishay Gal-Yam
Weizmann Institute of Science
846 Papers
15.4K Citations
Avishay Gal-Yam is an academic researcher from Weizmann Institute of Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supernova & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 129, co-authored 795 publications. Previous affiliations of Avishay Gal-Yam include Max Planck Society & University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Papers
Design and development of the SOXS calibration unit
Hanindyo Kuncarayakti,J. Achrén,Sergio Campana,Riccardo Claudi,P. Schipani,Matteo Aliverti,Andrea Baruffolo,Sagi Ben-Ami,Federico Biondi,Giulio Capasso,Rosario Cosentino,Francesco D'Alessio,P. D'Avanzo,O. Hershko,Marco Landoni,Matteo Munari,Giuliano Pignata,Adam Rubin,Adam Rubin,Salvatore Scuderi,Fabrizio Vitali,D. R. Young,José Antonio Araiza-Duran,Iair Arcavi,Anna Brucalassi,Rachel Bruch,Enrico Cappellaro,Mirko Colapietro,Massimo Della Valle,Marco De Pascale,Rosario Di Benedetto,Sergio D'Orsi,Avishay Gal-Yam,Matteo Genoni,Marcos Hernandez,Jari Kotilainen,Gianluca Li Causi,Seppo Mattila,Kalyan Radhakrishnan,Michael Rappaport,Davide Ricci,Marco Riva,Bernardo Salasnich,Stephen Smartt,Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez,Maximilian Stritzinger,Hector Ventura +46 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: The SOXS spectrograph for the New Technology Telescope (NTT) as mentioned in this paper is equipped with a calibration unit that will be used to remove the instrument signatures and to provide wavelength calibration to the data.
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MITS: the Multi-Imaging Transient Spectrograph for SOXS
Adam Rubin,Sagi Ben-Ami,O. Hershko,Michael Rappaport,O. Diner,Avishay Gal-Yam,Sergio Campana,Riccardo Claudi,Pietro Schipani,Matteo Aliverti,Andrea Baruffolo,Federico Biondi,A. Brucalassi,G. Capasso,Rosario Cosentino,Francesco D'Alessio,P. D'Avanzo,Hanindyo Kuncarayakti,Matteo Munari,Salvatore Scuderi,Fabrizio Vitali,J. Achrén,José Antonio Araiza-Duran,Iair Arcavi,Andrea Bianco,Enrico Cappellaro,M. Colapietro,Massimo Della Valle,Sergio D'Orsi,Daniela Fantinel,Johan P. U. Fynbo,Matteo Genoni,M. Hirvonen,Jari Kotilainen,T. Kumar,Marco Landoni,J. Lehti,Gianluca Li Causi,Luca Marafatto,Seppo Mattila,Giorgio Pariani,Giuliano Pignata,D. Ricci,Marco Riva,Bernardo Salasnich,Ricardo Zenmar-Sanchez,Stephen J. Smartt,Massimo Turatto +47 more
TL;DR: The Son Of X-Shooter (SOXS) is a medium resolution spectrograph R~4500 proposed for the ESO 3.6 m NTT as mentioned in this paper, which employs high efficiency ion-etched gratings used in first order (m=1) as the main dispersers.
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A Sensitive Search for Supernova Emission Associated with the Extremely Energetic and Nearby GRB 221009A
Gokul P. Srinivasaragavan,B. O'Connor,S. Bradley Cenko,Alexander J. Dittmann,Sheng Yang,Jesper Sollerman,G. C. Anupama,Sudhanshu Barway,Varun Bhalerao,Harsha S. Kumar,V. M. Swain,Erica Hammerstein,Isiah Holt,Shreya Anand,Igor Andreoni,Michael W. Coughlin,Simone Dichiara,Avishay Gal-Yam,M. Coleman Miller,Jaime Soon,Roberto Soria,J. M. Durbak,J. Gillanders,Sibasish Laha,Anna Moore,F. Ragosta,Eleonora Troja +26 more
TL;DR: In this paper , a phenomenological power-law model for the afterglow and host galaxy estimates from high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging was used to determine the likelihood of an associated supernova contributing excess flux to the optical light curve.
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Oxygen and helium in stripped-envelope supernovae
Christoffer Fremling,Christoffer Fremling,Jesper Sollerman,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Cristina Barbarino,Mattias Ergon,Emir Karamehmetoglu,Francesco Taddia,Iair Arcavi,Iair Arcavi,S. B. Cenko,S. B. Cenko,Kelsey I. Clubb,A. De Cia,G. Duggan,Alexei V. Filippenko,Avishay Gal-Yam,Melissa L. Graham,Assaf Horesh,Griffin Hosseinzadeh,Griffin Hosseinzadeh,Dale Andrew Howell,Dale Andrew Howell,D. Kuesters,Ragnhild Lunnan,Ragnhild Lunnan,Thomas Matheson,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Daniel A. Perley,Robert M. Quimby,Robert M. Quimby,Clare Saunders +33 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of 507 spectra of 173 stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe) discovered by the untargeted Palomar Transient Factory and intermediate PTF (iPTF) surveys was presented.
Final design and development status of the acquisition and guiding system for SOXS.
A. Brucalassi,Giuliano Pignata,Giuliano Pignata,J. A. Araiza-Duran,J. A. Araiza-Duran,Sergio Campana,Riccardo Claudi,P. Schipani,Matteo Aliverti,Andrea Baruffolo,Sagi Ben-Ami,Federico Biondi,Giulio Capasso,Mirko Colapietro,Rosario Cosentino,Francesco D'Alessio,P. D'Avanzo,Matteo Genoni,O. Hershko,Hanindyo Kuncarayakti,Marco Landoni,Matteo Munari,Kalian Radhakrishnan,Michael Rappaport,Davide Ricci,Adam Rubin,Salvatore Scuderi,Fabrizio Vitali,Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez,D. R. Young,J. Achrén,Iair Arcavi,Rachel Bruch,Enrico Cappellaro,Massimo Della Valle,Marco De Pascale,Rosario Di Benedetto,Sergio D'Orsi,Avishay Gal-Yam,Marcos Hernandez,Jari Kotilainen,Gianluca Li Causi,Seppo Mattila,Marco Riva,Bernardo Salasnich,Stephen Smartt,Maximilian Stritzinger,Hector Ventura +47 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: The final opto-mechanical design for the AC System is presented and its development status is described and it is described that the project is currently in manufacturing and integration phases.
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