Christa Gall

Christa Gall

Associate Professor


  1. Published

    Genesis and evolution of dust in galaxies in the early Universe. I. Modelling dust evolution in starburst galaxies

    Gall, Christa, Andersen, Anja C. & Hjorth, Jens, 18 Feb 2011, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 528, p. A13

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  2. Published

    The Distance to NGC 4993: The Host Galaxy of the Gravitational-wave Event GW170817

    Hjorth, Jens, Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Lyman, J. D., Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan, Schroder, S. L., Mandel, I., Gall, Christa & Bruun, S. H., 20 Oct 2017, In: Astrophysics Journal Letters. 848, 2, L31.

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  3. Published

    On inferring extinction laws in z ~ 6 quasars as signatures of supernova dust

    Hjorth, Jens, Vreeswijk, P. M., Gall, Christa & Watson, Darach Jafar, 10 May 2013, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 768, 2, 173.

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  4. Published

    Shaping the Dust Mass-Star-formation Rate Relation

    Hjorth, Jens, Gall, Christa & Michallowski, M. J., 20 Feb 2014, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 782, 2, 5 p., L23.

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  5. Published

    Strong near-infrared carbon in the Type Ia supernova iPTF13ebh

    Hsiao, E. Y., Burns, C. R., Contreras, C., Hoeflich, P., Sand, D., Marion, G. H., Phillips, M. M., Stritzinger, M., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Mason, R. E., Folatelli, G., Parent, E., Gall, C., Amanullah, R., Anupama, G. C., Arcavi, I., Banerjee, D. P. K., Beletsky, Y., Blanc, G. A., Bloom, J. S. & 34 others, Brown, P. J., Campillay, A., Cao, Y., De Cia, A., Diamond, T., Freedman, W. L., Gonzalez, C., Goobar, A., Holmbo, S., Howell, D. A., Johansson, J., Kasliwal, M. M., Kirshner, R. P., Krisciunas, K., Kulkarni, S. R., Maguire, K., Milne, P. A., Morrell, N., Nugent, P. E., Ofek, E. O., Osip, D., Palunas, P., Perley, D. A., Persson, S. E., Piro, A. L., Rabus, M., Roth, M., Schiefelbein, J. M., Srivastav, S., Sullivan, M., Suntzeff, N. B., Surace, J., Wozniak, P. R. & Yaron, O., 1 Jun 2015, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 578, A9.

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Published

    Final Moments. I. Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass Loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf

    Jacobson-galán, W. V., Dessart, L., Jones, D. O., Margutti, R., Coppejans, D. L., Dimitriadis, G., Foley, R. J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Matthews, D. J., Rest, S., Terreran, G., Aleo, P. D., Auchettl, K., Blanchard, P. K., Coulter, D. A., Davis, K. W., De Boer, T. J. L., Demarchi, L., Drout, M. R., Earl, N. & 16 others, Gagliano, A., Gall, Christa, Hjorth, Jens, Huber, M. E., Ibik, A. L., Milisavljevic, D., Pan, Y., Rest, A., Ridden-harper, R., Rojas-bravo, C., Siebert, M. R., Smith, K. W., Taggart, K., Tinyanont, S., Wang, Q. & Zenati, Y., 1 Jan 2022, In: Astrophysical Journal. 924, 1, 25 p., 15.

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  10. Published

    SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: Photo-ionization of Dense, Close-in Circumstellar Material in a Nearby Type II Supernova

    Jacobson-galán, W. V., Dessart, L., Margutti, R., Chornock, R., Foley, R. J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Jones, D. O., Taggart, K., Angus, C. R., Bhattacharjee, S., Braff, L. A., Brethauer, D., Burgasser, A. J., Cao, F., Carlile, C. M., Chambers, K. C., Coulter, D. A., Dominguez-ruiz, E., Dickinson, C. B., De Boer, T. & 48 others, Gagliano, A., Gall, Christa, Gao, H., Gates, E. L., Gomez, S., Guolo, M., Halford, M. R. J., Hjorth, Jens, Huber, M. E., Johnson, M. N., Karpoor, P. R., Laskar, T., Lebaron, N., Li, Z., Lin, Y., Loch, S. D., Lynam, P. D., Magnier, E. A., Maloney, P., Matthews, D. J., Mcdonald, M., Miao, H., Milisavljevic, D., Pan, Y., Pradyumna, S., Ransome, C. L., Rees, J. M., Rest, A., Rojas-bravo, C., Sandford, N. R., Ascencio, L. S., Sanjaripour, S., Savino, A., Sears, H., Sharei, N., Smartt, S. J., Softich, E. R., Theissen, C. A., Tinyanont, S., Tohfa, H., Villar, V. A., Wang, Q., Wainscoat, R. J., Westerling, A. L., Wiston, E., Wozniak, M. A., Yadavalli, S. K. & Zenati, Y., 8 Sep 2023, In: Astrophysics Journal Letters. 954, 2, 15 p., L42.

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  11. Published

    The Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations

    Jones, D. O., Foley, R. J., Narayan, G., Hjorth, J., Huber, M. E., Aleo, P. D., Alexander, K. D., Angus, C. R., Auchettl, K., Baldassare, V. F., Bruun, S. H., Chambers, K. C., Chatterjee, D., Coppejans, D. L., Coulter, D. A., DeMarchi, L., Dimitriadis, G., Drout, M. R., Engel, A., French, K. D. & 51 others, Gagliano, A., Gall, Christa, Hung, T., Izzo, Luca, Jacobson-Galan, W. V., Kilpatrick, C. D., Korhonen, H., Margutti, R., Raimundo, Sandra, Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C., Siebert, M. R., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Terreran, G., Wang, Q., Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan, Agnello, Adriano, Ansari, Z., Arendse, N., Baldeschi, A., Blanchard, P. K., Brethauer, D., Bright, J. S., Brown, J. S., Boer, T. J. L. D., Dodd, S. A., Fairlamb, J. R., Grillo, C., Hajela, A., Hede, C., Kolborg, Anne Noer, Law-Smith, J. A. P., Lin, C. -., Magnier, E. A., Malanchev, K., Matthews, D., Mockler, B., Muthukrishna, D., Pan, Y. -., Pfister, H., Ramanah, D. K., Rest, S., Sarangi, Arka, Schroder, S. L., Stauffer, C., Stroh, M. C., Taggart, K. L., Tinyanont, S. & Wainscoat, R. J., Feb 2021, In: Astrophysical Journal. 908, 2, 24 p., 143.

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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Published

    A new measurement of the Hubble constant using Type la supernovae calibrated with surface brightness fluctuations

    Khetan, N., Izzo, Luca, Branchesi, M., Wojtak, Radoslaw Jan, Cantiello, M., Murugeshan, C., Agnello, Adriano, Cappellaro, E., Della Valle, M., Gall, Christa, Hjorth, Jens, Benetti, S., Brocato, E., Burke, J., Hiramatsu, D., Howell, D. A., Tomasella, L. & Valenti, S., 12 Mar 2021, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 647, 20 p., A72.

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  15. Published

    Type II-P supernova progenitor star initial masses and SN 2020jfo: direct detection, light-curve properties, nebular spectroscopy, and local environment

    Kilpatrick, C. D., Izzo, L., Bentley, R. O., Chambers, K. C., Coulter, D. A., Drout, M. R., De boer, T., Foley, R. J., Gall, C., Halford, M. R., Jones, D. O., Langeroodi, D., Lin, C., Magnier, E. A., Mcgill, P., O’grady, A. J. G., Pan, Y., Ramirez-ruiz, E., Rest, A., Swift, J. J. & 6 others, Tinyanont, S., Villar, V. A., Wainscoat, R. J., Wasserman, A. R., Yadavalli, S. K. & Yang, G., 29 Jul 2023, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524, 2, p. 2161-2185

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  16. Published

    A cool and inflated progenitor candidate for the Type Ib supernova 2019yvr at 2.6 yr before explosion

    Kilpatrick, C. D., Drout, M. R., Auchettl, K., Dimitriadis, G., Foley, R. J., Jones, D. O., DeMarchi, L., French, K. D., Gall, Christa, Hjorth, Jens, Jacobson-Galan, W., Margutti, R., Piro, A. L., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Rest, A. & Rojas-Bravo, C., 2 Jun 2021, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504, 2, p. 2073-2093 21 p.

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  17. Published

    SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: A Variable Red Supergiant as the Progenitor Candidate to a Type II Supernova

    Kilpatrick, C. D., Foley, R. J., Jacobson-galán, W. V., Piro, A. L., Smartt, S. J., Drout, M. R., Gagliano, A., Gall, Christa, Hjorth, Jens, Jones, D. O., Mandel, K. S., Margutti, R., Ramirez-ruiz, E., Ransome, C. L., Villar, V. A., Coulter, D. A., Gao, H., Matthews, D. J., Taggart, K. & Zenati, Y., 25 Jun 2023, In: Astrophysics Journal Letters. 952, 1, 11 p., L23.

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  18. 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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  20. Published

    The Fate of the Interstellar Medium in Early-type Galaxies. II. Observational Evidence for Morphological Quenching*

    Leśniewska, A., Michałowski, M. J., Gall, Christa, Hjorth, Jens, Nadolny, J., Ryzhov, O. & Solar, M., 31 Jul 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal. 953, 1, 8 p., 27.

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  21. Published

    Carnegie Supernova Project. II. Near-infrared Spectral Diversity and Template of Type Ia Supernovae

    Lu, J., Hsiao, E. Y., Phillips, M. M., Burns, C. R., Ashall, C., Morrell, N., Ng, L., Kumar, S., Shahbandeh, M., Hoeflich, P., Baron, E., Uddin, S., Stritzinger, M. D., Suntzeff, N. B., Baltay, C., Davis, S., Diamond, T. R., Folatelli, G., Forster, F., Gagne, J. & 13 others, Galbany, L., Gall, Christa, Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Holmbo, S., Kirshner, R. P., Krisciunas, K., Marion, G. H., Perlmutter, S., Pessi, P. J., Piro, A. L., Rabinowitz, D., Ryder, S. D. & Sand, D. J., 1 May 2023, In: Astrophysical Journal. 948, 1, 24 p., 27.

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  22. Published

    The optical afterglow of the short gamma-ray burst associated with GW170817

    Lyman, J. D., Lamb, G. P., Levan, A. J., Mandel, I., Tanvir, N. R., Kobayashi, S., Gompertz, B., Hjorth, J., Fruchter, A. S., Kangas, T., Steeghs, D., Steele, I. A., Cano, Z., Copperwheat, C., Evans, P. A., Fynbo, J. P. U., Gall, C., Im, M., Izzo, L., Jakobsson, P. & 16 others, Milvang-Jensen, B., O'Brien, P., Osborne, J. P., Palazzi, E., Perley, D. A., Pian, E., Rosswog, S., Rowlinson, A., Schulze, S., Stanway, E. R., Sutton, P., Thone, C. C., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Watson, Darach Jafar, Wiersema, K. & Wijers, R. A. M. J., 1 Sep 2018, In: Nature Astronomy. 2, 9, p. 751-754 5 p.

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  23. Published

    A Panchromatic View of the Restless SN 2009ip Reveals the Explosive Ejection of a Massive Star Envelope

    Margutti, R., Milisavljevic, D., Soderberg, A. M., Chornock, R., Zauderer, B. A., Murase, K., Guidorzi, C., Sanders, N. E., Kuin, P., Fransson, C., Levesque, E. M., Chandra, P., Berger, E., Bianco, F. B., Brown, P. J., Challis, P., Chatzopoulos, E., Cheung, C. C., Choi, C., Chomiuk, L. & 37 others, Chugai, N., Contreras, C., Drout, M. R., Fesen, R., Foley, R. J., Fong, W., Friedman, A. S., Gall, Christa, Gehrels, N., Hjorth, Jens, Hsiao, E., Kirshner, R., Im, M., Leloudas, G., Lunnan, R., Marion, G. H., Martin, J., Morrell, N., Neugent, K. F., Omodei, N., Phillips, M. M., Rest, A., Silverman, J. M., Strader, J., Stritzinger, M. D., Szalai, T., Utterback, N. B., Vinko, J., Wheeler, J. C., Arnett, D., Campana, S., Chevalier, R., Ginsburg, A., Kamble, A., Roming, P. W. A., Pritchard, T. & Stringfellow, G., 1 Jan 2014, In: Astrophysical Journal. 780, 1, 38 p., 21.

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  24. Published

    The nebular spectra of the transitional Type Ia Supernovae 2007on and 2011iv: broad, multiple components indicate aspherical explosion cores

    Mazzali, P. A., Ashall, C., Pian, E., Stritzinger, M. D., Gall, Christa, Phillips, M. M., Hoflich, P. & Hsiao, E., 20 Feb 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476, 3, p. 2905-2917

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  25. 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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