Christa Gall

Christa Gall

Associate Professor


  1. 2020
  2. Published

    Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star-black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv

    Ackley, K., Amati, L., Barbieri, C., Bauer, F. E., Benetti, S., Bernardini, M. G., Bhirombhakdi, K., Botticella, M. T., Branchesi, M., Brocato, E., Bruun, S. H., Bulla, M., Campana, S., Cappellaro, E., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Chambers, K. C., Chaty, S., Chen, T-W., Ciolfi, R., Coleiro, A. & 134 others, Copperwheat, C. M., Covino, S., Cutter, R., D'Ammando, F., D'Avanzo, P., De Cesare, G., D'Elia, V., Della Valle, M., Denneau, L., De Pasquale, M., Dhillon, V. S., Dyer, M. J., Elias-Rosa, N., Evans, P. A., Eyles-Ferris, R. A. J., Fiore, A., Fraser, M., Fruchter, A. S., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Galbany, L., Gall, Christa, Galloway, D. K., Getman, F., Ghirlanda, G., Gillanders, J. H., Gomboc, A., Gompertz, B. P., Gonzalez-Fernandez, C., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Grado, A., Greco, G., Gromadzki, M., Groot, P. J., Gutierrez, C. P., Heikkila, T., Heintz, K. E., Hjorth, Jens, Hu, Y., Huber, M. E., Inserra, C., Izzo, Luca, Japelj, J., Jerkstrand, A., Jin, Z. P., Jonker, P. G., Kankare, E., Kann, D. A., Kennedy, M., Kim, S., Klose, S., Kool, E. C., Kotak, R., Kuncarayakti, H., Lamb, G. P., Leloudas, G., Levan, A. J., Longo, F., Lowe, T. B., Lyman, J. D., Magnier, E., Maguire, K., Maiorano, E., Mandel, I., Mapelli, M., Mattila, S., McBrien, O. R., Melandri, A., Michalowski, M. J., Milvang-Jensen, B., Moran, S., Nicastro, L., Nicholl, M., Guelbenzu, A. N., Nuttal, L., Oates, S. R., O'Brien, P. T., Onori, F., Palazzi, E., Patricelli, B., Perego, A., Torres, M. A. P., Perley, D. A., Pian, E., Pignata, G., Piranomonte, S., Poshyachinda, S., Possenti, A., Pumo, M. L., Quirola-Vasquez, J., Ragosta, F., Ramsay, G., Rau, A., Rest, A., Reynolds, T. M., Rosetti, S. S., Rossi, A., Rosswog, S., Sabha, N. B., Carracedo, A. S., Salafia, O. S., Salmon, L., Salvaterra, R., Savaglio, S., Sbordone, L., Schady, P., Schipani, P., Schultz, A. S. B., Schweyer, T., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Smith, M., Sollerman, J., Srivastav, S., Stanway, E. R., Starling, R. L. C., Steeghs, D., Stratta, G., Stubbs, C. W., Tanvir, N. R., Testa, G., Thrane, E., Tonry, J. L., Turatto, M., Ulaczyk, K., van der Horst, A. J., Vergani, S. D., Walton, N. A., Watson, Darach Jafar, Wiersema, K., Wiik, K., Wyrzykowski, L., Yang, S., Yi, S. & Young, D. R., 10 Nov 2020, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 643, 48 p., A113.

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  3. Published

    Carnegie Supernova Project II: The Slowest Rising Type Ia Supernova LSQ14fmg and Clues to the Origin of Super-Chandrasekhar/03fg-like Events

    Hsiao, E. Y., Hoeflich, P., Ashall, C., Lu, J., Contreras, C., Burns, C. R., Phillips, M. M., Galbany, L., Anderson, J. P., Baltay, C., Baron, E., Castellón, S., Davis, S., Freedman, W. L., Gall, C., Gonzalez, C., Graham, M. L., Hamuy, M., Holoien, T. W. S., Karamehmetoglu, E. & 17 others, Krisciunas, K., Kumar, S., Kuncarayakti, H., Morrell, N., Moriya, T. J., Nugent, P. E., Perlmutter, S., Persson, S. E., Piro, A. L., Rabinowitz, D., Roth, M., Shahbandeh, M., Shappee, B. J., Stritzinger, M. D., Suntzeff, N. B., Taddia, F. & Uddin, S. A., 2020, In: Astrophysical Journal. 900, 2, 17 p., 140.

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  4. Published

    Broad-line type Ic SN 2020bvc: Signatures of an off-axis gamma-ray burst afterglow

    Izzo, Luca, Auchettl, K., Hjorth, Jens, De Colle, F., Gall, Christa, Angus, Charlotte, Raimundo, Sandra & Ramirez-Ruiz, E., 21 Jul 2020, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 639, 8 p., L11.

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  5. Published

    Pan-STARRS1 Transient Discovery Report for 2020-01-08

    Jones, D. O., French, K. D., Agnello, A., Angus, C. R., Ansari, Z., Arendse, N., Gall, C., Grillo, C., Bruun, S. H., Hede, C., Hjorth, J., Izzo, L., Korhonen, H., Raimundo, S., Ramanah, D. K., Sarangi, A., Wojtak, R., Chambers, K. C., Huber, M. E., Magnier, E. A. & 31 others, Boer, T. J. L. D., Fairlamb, J. R., Lin, C. C., Wainscoat, R. J., Lowe, T., Willman, M., Bulger, J., Schultz, A. S. B., Engel, A., Gagliano, A., Narayan, G., Soraisam, M., Wang, Q., Rest, A., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Alexander, K., Baldeschi, A., Blanchard, P., Coppejans, D., DeMarchi, L., Hajela, A., Jacobson-Galan, W., Margutti, R., Matthews, D., Stauffer, C., Stroh, M., Terreran, G., Drout, M., Auchettl, K. & Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), Y. S. E. (., 1 Jan 2020, In: Transient Name Server Discovery Report, No. 2020-76. 76

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  6. Published

    YSE/Pan-STARRS1 Transient Discovery Report for 2020-01-31

    Jones, D. O., French, K. D., Agnello, A., Angus, C. R., Ansari, Z., Arendse, N., Gall, C., Grillo, C., Bruun, S. H., Hede, C., Hjorth, J., Izzo, L., Korhonen, H., Raimundo, S., Ramanah, D. K., Sarangi, A., Wojtak, R., Chambers, K. C., Huber, M. E., Magnier, E. A. & 31 others, Boer, T. J. L. D., Fairlamb, J. R., Lin, C. C., Wainscoat, R. J., Lowe, T., Willman, M., Bulger, J., Schultz, A. S. B., Engel, A., Gagliano, A., Narayan, G., Soraisam, M., Wang, Q., Rest, A., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Alexander, K., Baldeschi, A., Blanchard, P., Coppejans, D., DeMarchi, L., Hajela, A., Jacobson-Galan, W., Margutti, R., Matthews, D., Stauffer, C., Stroh, M., Terreran, G., Drout, M., Auchettl, K. & Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), Y. S. E. (., 1 Jan 2020, In: Transient Name Server Discovery Report, No. 2020-76. 341

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  7. Published
  8. Published

    The Carnegie Supernova Project II Observations of SN 2014ab possibly revealing a 2010jl-like SN IIn with pre-existing dust

    Moriya, T. J., Stritzinger, M. D., Taddia, F., Morrell, N., Suntzeff, N. B., Contreras, C., Gall, C., Hjorth, J., Ashall, C., Burns, C. R., Busta, L., Campillay, A., Castellon, S., Corco, C., Davis, S., Galbany, L., Gonzalez, C., Holmbo, S., Hsiao, E. Y., Maund, J. R. & 1 others, Phillips, M. M., 23 Sep 2020, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 641, 17 p., A148.

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  9. Published

    Dynamical mass inference of galaxy clusters with neural flows

    Ramanah, D. K., Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan, Ansari, Z., Gall, Christa & Hjorth, Jens, 21 Sep 2020, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499, 2, p. 1985-1997 13 p.

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  10. Published

    The Lowest of the Low: Discovery of SN 2019gsc and the Nature of Faint Iax Supernovae

    Srivastav, S., Smartt, S. J., Leloudas, G., Huber, M. E., Chambers, K., Malesani, D. B., Hjorth, Jens, Gillanders, J. H., Schultz, A., Sim, S. A., Auchettl, K., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Gall, Christa, McBrien, O. R., Rest, A., Smith, K. W., Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan & Young, D. R., 1 Apr 2020, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 892, 2, 8 p., L24.

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  11. Published

    The Carnegie Supernova Project II: The shock wave revealed through the fog: The strongly interacting Type IIn SN 2013L

    Taddia, F., Stritzinger, M. D., Fransson, C., Brown, P. J., Contreras, C., Holmbo, S., Moriya, T. J., Phillips, M. M., Sollerman, J., Suntzeff, N. B., Ashall, C., Burns, C. R., Busta, L., Campillay, A., Castellón, S., Corco, C., DI Mille, F., Gall, C., González, C., Hsiao, E. Y. & 4 others, Morrell, N., Nyholm, A., Simon, J. D. & Serón, J., 2020, In: Astronomy and Astrophysics. 638, A92.

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  12. 2019
  13. Published

    SN 2017gmr: An Energetic Type II-P Supernova with Asymmetries

    Andrews, J. E., Sand, D. J., Valenti, S., Smith, N., Dastidar, R., Sahu, D. K., Misra, K., Singh, A., Hiramatsu, D., Brown, P. J., Hosseinzadeh, G., Chen, S., Chomiuk, L., Cikota, A., Congiu, E., Cseh, B., Davis, S., Elias-Rosa, N., Faran, T., Fraser, M. & 21 others, Galbany, L., Gall, Christa, Gal-Yam, A., Gangopadhyay, A., Gromadzki, M., Inserra, C., Kankare, E., Kuncarayakti, H., Kouprianov, V., Sanwal, P., Sarneczky, K., Shahbandeh, M., Singh, M., Smartt, S., Strader, J., Stritzinger, M. D., Wheeler, J. C., Xiang, D., Yaron, O., Young, D. R. & Zhang, J., 1 Nov 2019, In: Astrophysical Journal. 885, 1, 23 p., 43.

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  14. Published

    Strongly Bipolar Inner Ejecta of the Normal Type IIP Supernova ASASSN-16at

    Bose, S., Dong, S., Elias-Rosa, N., Shappee, B. J., Bersier, D., Benetti, S., Stritzinger, M. D., Grupe, D., Kochanek, C. S., Prieto, J. L., Chen, P., Kuncarayakti, H., Mattila, S., Morales-Garoffolo, A., Morrell, N., Onori, F., Reynolds, T. M., Siviero, A., Somero, A., Stanek, K. Z. & 7 others, Terreran, G., Thompson, T. A., Tomasella, L., Ashall, C., Gall, Christa, Gromadzki, M. & Holoien, T. W., 1 Mar 2019, In: Astrophysical Journal Letters. 873, 1, L3.

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  15. Published

    The transitional gap transient AT 2018hso: new insights into the luminous red nova phenomenon

    Cai, Y. -Z., Pastorello, A., Fraser, M., Prentice, S. J., Reynolds, T. M., Cappellaro, E., Benetti, S., Morales-Garoffolo, A., Reguitti, A., Elias-Rosa, N., Brennan, S., Callis, E., Cannizzaro, G., Fiore, A., Gromadzki, M., Galindo-Guil, F. J., Gall, C., Heikkila, T., Mason, E., Moran, S. & 3 others, Onori, F., Carracedo, A. S. & Valerin, G., 3 Dec 2019, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 632, 9 p., A16.

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  16. Published

    Carnegie Supernova Project-II: The Near-infrared Spectroscopy Program

    Hsiao, E. Y., Phillips, M. M., Marion, G. H., Kirshner, R. P., Morrell, N., Sand, D. J., Burns, C. R., Contreras, C., Hoeflich, P., Stritzinger, M. D., Valenti, S., Anderson, J. P., Ashall, C., Baltay, C., Baron, E., Banetjee, D. P. K., Davis, S., Diamond, T. R., Folatelli, G., Freedman, W. L. & 25 others, Forster, F., Galbany, L., Gall, Christa, Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Goobar, A., Hamuy, M., Holmbo, S., Kasliwal, M. M., Krisciunas, K., Kumar, S., Lidman, C., Lu, J., Nugent, P. E., Perlmutter, S., Persson, S. E., Piro, A. L., Rabinowitz, D., Roth, M., Ryder, S. D., Schmidt, B. P., Shahbandeh, M., Suntzeff, N. B., Taddia, F., Uddin, S. & Wang, L., 2 Jan 2019, In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 131, 995, 014002.

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  17. Published

    The fate of the interstellar medium in early-type galaxies I. First direct measurement of the timescale of dust removal

    Michalowski, M. J., Hjorth, Jens, Gall, Christa, Frayer, D. T., Tsai, A., Hirashita, H., Rowlands, K., Takeuchi, T. T., Lesniewska, A., Behrendt, D., Bourne, N., Hughes, D. H., Spring, E., Zavala, J. & Bartczak, P., 17 Oct 2019, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 632, 11 p., A43.

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  18. Published

    Carnegie Supernova Project-II: Extending the Near-infrared Hubble Diagram for Type Ia Supernovae to z similar to 0.1

    Phillips, M. M., Contreras, C., Hsiao, E. Y., Morrell, N., Burns, C. R., Stritzinger, M., Ashall, C., Freedman, W. L., Hoeflich, P., Persson, S. E., Piro, A. L., Suntzeff, N. B., Uddin, S. A., Anais, J., Baron, E., Busta, L., Campillay, A., Castellon, S., Corco, C., Diamond, T. & 24 others, Gall, Christa, Gonzalez, C., Holmbo, S., Krisciunas, K., Roth, M., Seron, J., Taddia, F., Torres, S., Anderson, J. P., Baltay, C., Folatelli, G., Galbany, L., Goobar, A., Hadjiyska, E., Hamuy, M., Kasliwal, M., Lidman, C., Nugent, P. E., Perlmutter, S., Rabinowitz, D., Ryder, S. D., Schmidt, B. P., Shappee, B. J. & Walker, E. S., 2 Jan 2019, In: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 131, 995, 23 p., 014001.

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  19. Published

    SN2016coi (ASASSN-16fp): An Energetic H-stripped Core-collapse Supernova from a Massive Stellar Progenitor with Large Mass Loss

    Terreran, G., Margutti, R., Bersier, D., Brimacombe, J., Caprioli, D., Challis, P., Chornock, R., Coppejans, D. L., Dong, S., Guidorzi, C., Hurley, K., Kirshner, R., Migliori, G., Milisavljevic, D., Palmer, D. M., Prieto, J. L., Tomasella, L., Marchant, P., Pastorello, A., Shappee, B. J. & 9 others, Stanek, K. Z., Stritzinger, M. D., Benetti, S., Chen, P., Demarchi, L., Elias-Rosa, N., Gall, Christa, Harmanen, J. & Mattila, S., 1 Oct 2019, In: Astrophysical Journal. 883, 2, 29 p., 147.

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  20. Published

    Magnified or multiply imaged? - Search strategies for gravitationally lensed supernovae in wide-field surveys

    Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan, Hjorth, Jens & Gall, Christa, 1 Aug 2019, In: Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487, 3, p. 3342-3355 13 p.

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  21. 2018
  22. Published

    On the type Ia supernovae 2007on and 2011iv: evidence for Chandrasekhar-mass explosions at the faint end of the luminosity-width relationship

    Ashall, C., Mazzali, P. A., Stritzinger, M. D., Hoeflich, P., Burns, C. R., Gall, Christa, Hsiao, E. Y., Phillips, M. M., Morrell, N. & Foley, R. J., 11 Jun 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477, 1, p. 153-174

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  23. Published

    Gaia17biu/SN 2017egm in NGC 3191: The Closest Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova to Date Is in a "Normal," Massive, Metal-rich Spiral Galaxy

    Bose, S., Dong, S., Pastorello, A., Filippenko, A. V., Kochanek, C. S., Mauerhan, J., Romero-Canizales, C., Brink, T. G., Chen, P., Prieto, J. L., Post, R., Ashall, C., Grupe, D., Tomasella, L., Benetti, S., Shappee, B. J., Stanek, K. Z., Cai, Z., Falco, E., Lundqvist, P. & 38 others, Mattila, S., Mutel, R., Ochner, P., Pooley, D., Stritzinger, M. D., Villanueva, S. ,. J., Zheng, W., Beswick, R. J., Brown, P. J., Cappellaro, E., Davis, S., Fraser, M., de Jaeger, T., Elias-Rosa, N., Gall, Christa, Gaudi, B. S., Herczeg, G. J., Hestenes, J., Holoien, T. W. -., Hosseinzadeh, G., Hsiao, E. Y., Hu, S., Jaejin, S., Jeffers, B., Koff, R. A., Kumar, S., Kurtenkov, A., Lau, M. W., Prentice, S., Reynolds, T., Rudy, R. J., Shahbandeh, M., Somero, A., Stassun, K. G., Thompson, T. A., Valenti, S., Woo, J. & Yunus, S., 20 Jan 2018, In: Astrophysical Journal. 853, 1, 20 p., 57.

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  24. Published

    AT 2017be - a new member of the class of intermediate-luminosity red transients

    Cai, Y-Z., Pastorello, A., Fraser, M., Botticella, M. T., Gall, C., Arcavi, I., Benetti, S., Cappellaro, E., Elias-Rosa, N., Harmanen, J., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Isern, J., Kangas, T., Kankare, E., Kuncarayakti, H., Lundqvist, P., Mattila, S., McCully, C., Reynolds, T. M. & 3 others, Somero, A., Stritzinger, M. D. & Terreran, G., 1 Nov 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480, 3, p. 3424-3445

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  25. Published

    A spectroscopic look at the gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernova 2016geu at z = 0.409

    Cano, Z., Selsing, J., Hjorth, Jens, Ugarte Postigo, A. D., Gall, Christa, Christensen, Lise Bech & Kann, D. ~., 1 Jan 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 473, p. 4257-4267 11 p.

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  26. Published

    Maximally Dusty Star-forming Galaxies: Supernova Dust Production and Recycling in Local Group and High-redshift Galaxies

    Gall, Christa & Hjorth, Jens, 20 Nov 2018, In: Astrophysical Journal. 868, 1, 10 p., 62.

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  27. Published

    Two transitional type Ia supernovae located in the Fornax cluster member NGC 1404: SN 2007on and SN 2011iv

    Gall, C., Stritzinger, M. D., Ashall, C., Baron, E., Burns, C. R., Hoeflich, P., Hsiao, E. Y., Mazzali, P. A., Phillips, M. M., Filippenko, A. V., Anderson, J. P., Benetti, S., Brown, P. J., Campillay, A., Challis, P., Contreras, C., Elias de la Rosa, N., Folatelli, G., Foley, R. J., Fraser, M. & 9 others, Holmbo, S., Marion, G. H., Morrell, N., Pan, Y. -., Pignata, G., Suntzeff, N. B., Taddia, F., Torres Robledo, S. & Valenti, S., 27 Mar 2018, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 611, 33 p., A58.

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  28. Published

    SN 2017dio: A Type-Ic Supernova Exploding in a Hydrogen-rich Circumstellar Medium

    Kuncarayakti, H., Maeda, K., Ashall, C. J., Prentice, S. J., Mattila, S., Kankare, E., Fransson, C., Lundqvist, P., Pastorello, A., Leloudas, G., Anderson, J. P., Benetti, S., Bersten, M. C., Cappellaro, E., Cartier, R., Denneau, L., Della Valle, M., Elias-Rosa, N., Folatelli, G., Fraser, M. & 25 others, Galbany, L., Gall, Christa, Gal-Yam, A., Gutierrez, C. P., Hamanowicz, A., Heinze, A., Inserra, C., Kangas, T., Mazzali, P., Melandri, A., Pignata, G., Rest, A., Reynolds, T., Roy, R., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Sollerman, J., Somero, A., Stalder, B., Stritzinger, M., Taddia, F., Tomasella, L., Tonry, J., Weiland, H. & Young, D. R., 10 Feb 2018, In: Astrophysics Journal Letters. 854, 1, 8 p., L14.

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