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Daniel Kasen is an American astrophysicist affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He develops computational models of supernovae, kilonovae, and the electromagnetic radiation produced by neutron star mergers and other explosive transients....
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Influential supernova and kilonova theorist whose predictive models were strongly validated by gravitational-wave counterpart observations.
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Mansi Kasliwal is an Indian-American astronomer and a professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Her research focuses on the study of transient astronomical events, such as supernovae and kilonovae, which are bright flashes of light caused by stellar explosions or me...
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Leading observational transient astronomer whose work on kilonovae and infrared discovery networks has earned major awards and strong acclaim.
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