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Ken J. Shen, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2010 Physics University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States 
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Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Year Citation  Score
2020 Hoadley K, Martin DC, Metzger BD, Seibert M, McWilliam A, Shen KJ, Neill JD, Stefansson G, Monson A, Schaefer BE. A blue ring nebula from a stellar merger several thousand years ago. Nature. 587: 387-391. PMID 33208957 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2893-5  0.466
2020 Jacobson-Galán WV, Margutti R, Kilpatrick CD, Hiramatsu D, Perets H, Khatami D, Foley RJ, Raymond J, Yoon S, Bobrick A, Zenati Y, Galbany L, Andrews J, Brown PJ, Cartier R, ... ... Shen KJ, et al. SN 2019ehk: A Double-peaked Ca-rich Transient with Luminous X-Ray Emission and Shock-ionized Spectral Features The Astrophysical Journal. 898: 166. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab9E66  0.637
2020 Reyes MACdl, Kirby EN, Seitenzahl IR, Shen KJ. Manganese Indicates a Transition from Sub- to Near-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae in Dwarf Galaxies The Astrophysical Journal. 891: 85. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab736F  0.515
2020 Aydi E, Sokolovsky KV., Chomiuk L, Steinberg E, Li KL, Vurm I, Metzger BD, Strader J, Mukai K, Pejcha O, Shen KJ, Wade GA, Kuschnig R, Moffat AFJ, Pablo H, et al. Direct evidence for shock-powered optical emission in a nova Nature Astronomy. 4: 776-780. DOI: 10.1038/S41550-020-1070-Y  0.4
2019 Townsley DM, Miles BJ, Shen KJ, Kasen D. Double Detonations with Thin, Modestly Enriched Helium Layers can Make Normal Type Ia Supernovae The Astrophysical Journal. 878: L38. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/Ab27Cd  0.65
2019 Shen KJ, Quataert E, Pakmor R. The Progenitors of Calcium-strong Transients The Astrophysical Journal. 887: 180. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab5370  0.456
2019 Kirby EN, Xie JL, Guo R, de los Reyes MAC, Bergemann M, Kovalev M, Shen KJ, Piro AL, McWilliam A. Evidence for Sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia Supernovae from Stellar Abundances in Dwarf Galaxies The Astrophysical Journal. 881: 45. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Ab2C02  0.659
2019 Miles BJ, Townsley DM, Shen KJ, Timmes FX, Moore K. Quantifying How Density Gradients and Front Curvature Affect Carbon Detonation Strength during SNe Ia The Astrophysical Journal. 871: 154. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aaf8A5  0.643
2019 Graham ML, Harris CE, Nugent PE, Maguire K, Sullivan M, Smith M, Valenti S, Goobar A, Fox OD, Shen KJ, Kelly PL, McCully C, Brink TG, Filippenko AV. Delayed Circumstellar Interaction for Type Ia SN 2015cp Revealed by an HST Ultraviolet Imaging Survey The Astrophysical Journal. 871: 62. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aaf41E  0.439
2019 Timmes F, Fryer C, Hungerford AL, Couture A, Adams F, Aoki W, Arcones A, Arnett D, Auchettl K, Avila M, Badenes C, Baron E, Bauswein A, Beacom J, Blackmon J, ... ... Shen K, et al. Catching Element Formation In The Act ; The Case for a New MeV Gamma-Ray Mission: Radionuclide Astronomy in the 2020s Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51: 2. DOI: 10.2172/1498895  0.664
2019 Raddi R, Hollands MA, Koester D, Hermes JJ, Gänsicke BT, Heber U, Shen KJ, Townsley DM, Pala AF, Reding JS, Toloza OF, Pelisoli I, Geier S, Gentile Fusillo NP, Munari U, et al. Partly burnt runaway stellar remnants from peculiar thermonuclear supernovae Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489: 1489-1508. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stz1618  0.714
2018 Rosenthal LJ, Shen K, Hallinan G, Singh N, Chomiuk L, Margutti R, Metzger B. A Search For Pulsations in the Optical Light Curve of the Nova ASASSN-17hx The Astrophysical Journal. 869: 7. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aae925  0.35
2018 Harris CE, Nugent PE, Horesh A, Bright JS, Fender RP, Graham ML, Maguire K, Smith M, Butler N, Valenti S, Filippenko AV, Fox O, Goobar A, Kelly PL, Shen KJ. Don’t Blink: Constraining the Circumstellar Environment of the Interacting Type Ia Supernova 2015cp The Astrophysical Journal. 868: 21. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aae521  0.487
2018 Shen KJ, Boubert D, Gänsicke BT, Jha SW, Andrews JE, Chomiuk L, Foley RJ, Fraser M, Gromadzki M, Guillochon J, Kotze MM, Maguire K, Siebert MR, Smith N, Strader J, et al. Three Hypervelocity White Dwarfs in Gaia DR2: Evidence for Dynamically Driven Double-degenerate Double-detonation Type Ia Supernovae The Astrophysical Journal. 865: 15. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aad55B  0.705
2018 Shen KJ, Kasen D, Miles BJ, Townsley DM. Sub-Chandrasekhar-mass White Dwarf Detonations Revisited The Astrophysical Journal. 854: 52. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/Aaa8De  0.699
2018 Kerzendorf WE, Strampelli G, Shen KJ, Schwab J, Pakmor R, Do T, Buchner J, Rest A. A search for a surviving companion in SN 1006 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479: 192-199. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Sty1357  0.464
2017 Arcavi I, Howell DA, Kasen D, Bildsten L, Hosseinzadeh G, McCully C, Wong ZC, Katz SR, Gal-Yam A, Sollerman J, Taddia F, Leloudas G, Fremling C, Nugent PE, Horesh A, ... ... Shen KJ, et al. Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star. Nature. 551: 210-213. PMID 29120417 DOI: 10.1038/Nature24030  0.655
2017 Shen KJ, Toonen S, Graur O. The Evolution of the Type Ia Supernova Luminosity Function The Astrophysical Journal. 851: L50. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/Aaa015  0.467
2017 Shen KJ, Schwab J. WAIT FOR IT: POST-SUPERNOVA WINDS DRIVEN BY DELAYED RADIOACTIVE DECAYS The Astrophysical Journal. 834: 180. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/180  0.373
2017 Metzger BD, Shen KJ, Stone N. Secular dimming of KIC 8462852 following its consumption of a planet Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 468: 4399-4407. DOI: 10.1093/Mnras/Stx823  0.48
2015 Shen K, Zhang Q, Meng X. Influence from cosmological uncertainties on galaxy number count at faint limit Modern Physics Letters A. 30: 1550139. DOI: 10.1142/S0217732315501394  0.395
2015 Shen KJ. Every interacting double white dwarf binary may merge Astrophysical Journal Letters. 805. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/805/1/L6  0.495
2015 Graham ML, Valenti S, Fulton BJ, Weiss LM, Shen KJ, Kelly PL, Zheng W, Filippenko AV, Marcy GW, Howell DA, Burt J, Rivera EJ. Time-varying potassium in high-resolution spectra of the type Ia supernova 2014J Astrophysical Journal. 801. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/801/2/136  0.36
2014 Shen KJ, Moore K. The initiation and propagation of helium detonations in white dwarf envelopes Astrophysical Journal. 797. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/46  0.481
2014 Kelly PL, Fox OD, Filippenko AV, Cenko SB, Prato L, Schaefer G, Shen KJ, Zheng W, Graham ML, Tucker BE. Constraints on the progenitor system of the type Ia supernova 2014J from pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope imaging Astrophysical Journal. 790. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/790/1/3  0.468
2014 Shen KJ, Bildsten L. The ignition of carbon detonations via converging shock waves in white dwarfs Astrophysical Journal. 785. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/785/1/61  0.578
2013 Shen KJ, Guillochon J, Foley RJ. Circumstellar absorption in double detonation type Ia supernovae Astrophysical Journal Letters. 770. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/770/2/L35  0.455
2013 Cenko SB, Kulkarni SR, Horesh A, Corsi A, Fox DB, Carpenter J, Frail DA, Nugent PE, Perley DA, Gruber D, Gal-Yam A, Groot PJ, Hallinan G, Ofek EO, Rau A, ... ... Shen KJ, et al. Discovery of a cosmological, relativistic outburst via its rapidly fading optical emission Astrophysical Journal. 769. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/769/2/130  0.404
2012 Schwab J, Shen KJ, Quataert E, Dan M, Rosswog S. The viscous evolution of white dwarf merger remnants Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 427: 190-203. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2966.2012.21993.X  0.525
2012 Bloom JS, Kasen D, Shen KJ, Nugent PE, Butler NR, Graham ML, Andrew Howell D, Kolb U, Holmes S, Haswell CA, Burwitz V, Rodriguez J, Sullivan M. A compact degenerate primary-star progenitor of SN 2011fe Astrophysical Journal Letters. 744. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/744/2/L17  0.495
2012 Ganeshalingam M, Li W, Filippenko AV, Silverman JM, Chornock R, Foley RJ, Matheson T, Kirshner RP, Milne P, Calkins M, Shen KJ. The low-velocity, rapidly fading type Ia supernova 2002es Astrophysical Journal. 751. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/751/2/142  0.452
2012 Shen KJ, Bildsten L, Kasen D, Quataert E. The long-term evolution of double white dwarf mergers Astrophysical Journal. 748. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/748/1/35  0.661
2011 Li W, Bloom JS, Podsiadlowski P, Miller AA, Cenko SB, Jha SW, Sullivan M, Howell DA, Nugent PE, Butler NR, Ofek EO, Kasliwal MM, Richards JW, Stockton A, Shih HY, ... ... Shen KJ, et al. Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe. Nature. 480: 348-50. PMID 22170681 DOI: 10.1038/Nature10646  0.69
2010 Perets HB, Gal-Yam A, Mazzali PA, Arnett D, Kagan D, Filippenko AV, Li W, Arcavi I, Cenko SB, Fox DB, Leonard DC, Moon DS, Sand DJ, Soderberg AM, Anderson JP, ... ... Shen KJ, et al. A faint type of supernova from a white dwarf with a helium-rich companion. Nature. 465: 322-5. PMID 20485429 DOI: 10.1038/Nature09056  0.75
2010 Kasliwal MM, Kulkarni SR, Gal-Yam A, Yaron O, Quimby RM, Ofek EO, Nugent P, Poznanski D, Jacobsen J, Sternberg A, Arcavi I, Andrew Howell D, Sullivan M, Rich DJ, Burke PF, ... ... Shen K, et al. Rapidly decaying supernova 2010X: A candidate ".Ia" explosion Astrophysical Journal Letters. 723: L98-L102. DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/723/1/L98  0.63
2010 Ofek EO, Rabinak I, Neill JD, Arcavi I, Cenko SB, Waxman E, Kulkarni SR, Gal-Yam A, Nugent PE, Bildsten L, Bloom JS, Filippenko AV, Forster K, Howell DA, Jacobsen J, ... ... Shen KJ, et al. Supernova PTF 09uj: A possible shock breakout from a dense circumstellar wind Astrophysical Journal. 724: 1396-1401. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/724/2/1396  0.667
2010 Shen KJ, Kasen D, Weinberg NN, Bildsten L, Scannapieco E. Thermonuclear .Ia Supernovae from helium shell detonations: Explosion models and observables Astrophysical Journal. 715: 767-774. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/767  0.627
2009 Shen KJ, Idan I, Bildsten L. Helium core white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables Astrophysical Journal. 705: 693-703. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/705/1/693  0.583
2009 Shen KJ, Bildsten L. Unstable helium shell burning on accreting white dwarfs Astrophysical Journal. 699: 1365-1373. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1365  0.524
2009 Shen KJ, Bildsten L. The effect of composition on nova ignitions Astrophysical Journal. 692: 324-334. DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/324  0.654
2008 Shen K, Bildsten L. Erratum: “Thermally Stable Nuclear Burning on Accreting White Dwarfs” ( ApJ, 660, 1444 [2007] ) The Astrophysical Journal. 678: 1530-1530. DOI: 10.1086/586689  0.57
2007 Bildsten L, Shen KJ, Weinberg NN, Nelemans G. Faint thermonuclear supernovae from AM Canum Venaticorum binaries Astrophysical Journal. 662: L95-L98. DOI: 10.1086/519489  0.672
2007 Shen KJ, Bildsten L. Thermally stable nuclear burning on accreting white dwarfs Astrophysical Journal. 660: 1444-1450. DOI: 10.1086/513457  0.646
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