DR. COSIMO INSERRA
I am an observational astrophysics working on cosmic explosions, called supernovae, that characterise the death of a star. My current research interests are the brightest supernovae explosions, usually referred to as "superluminous supernovae", and their use as high-redshift probes. I am also interested in fast transients and extreme supernovae, as well as in machine learning applied to astronomy and in future instrumentations such as Euclid and LSST.
H-index
37
Papers & Citations
94 - 4400+ (ADS)
14 - 670 (1st author, ADS)
Invited presentations,
seminars and colloquia
22
Projects/Proposals as
Principal Investigator
42
PROFESSIONAL ESTEEM INDICATORS
Royal Astronomical Society, 2017 winners of its awards: C. Inserra wins the Winton Capital Award as the most promising astronomy postdoc in UK
A new frontier of transient
astronomy: A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source. A Nature paper I have actively worked on that made the news (ESO, Guardian, BBC, El Pais)
The research highlights of the American Astronomical Society (AAS NOVA) report one of my recent studies, which unveils the shape of the brightest supernova.
RECENTLY IN THE NEWS
MY LATEST RESEARCH
The Four Observables Parameter Space (4OPS) plot.
The four plots allow the definition of a main population of SLSN I regardless of the peak luminosity. A SLSN I will belong to the main population if it falls in the confidence interval for the blue areas in the A and D panels or, alternatively, in the orange areas of the B and C panels.
Comparison of the spectra of SLSNe II SN2103hx and PS15br at ∼40 d from maximum together with that of SN2008es at a similar epoch and that of the SN II, SN1980K, at ∼20 d after maximum light. The
spectra of the three SLSNe II are similar to those of SNe II in a similar fashion to SLSNe I at ∼30 d resembling SN Ic at maximum.
(2018MNRAS.475.1046I).