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Peter studies the optical counterparts of Gamma Ray Bursts. He is a co-investigator on the Super-LOTIS (Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System), a robotic telescope that searches for these objects. He also works in the emerging field of positron astrophysics.VOSviewer
Courses
- IOAIntroduction to Observational Astronomy
- EOUExploring Our Universe
- CCosmology
- CPComputational Physics
- BESTBeyond the Earth in Space and Time
- TPUThe Physical Universe
Grants
- Investigating the Cosmological and Theoretical Implications of the Swift Discovery of Bi-modality in the UV-OPT Colors of Fast-declining Type Ia Supernova
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$185.6K
Active - Does the Bi-modality of UV-Optical Colors of Normal Type Ia Supernovae Change the Accelerating Universe?
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$361.6K
- Investigating the Cosmological and Theoretical Implications of the Swift Discovery of Bi-modality in the UV-Optical Colors of Normal Type Ia Supernovae
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$283.0K
- In Support of UKIRT Operations-OSU
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$163.0K
- A Second Ladder: Testing for Bias in the Type Ia Distance Scale with SBF
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$62.4K
- UKIRT Operation in Support of Hawaii Center for Astrodynamics Research
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$232.0K
- Understanding the Progenitor Systems, Explosion Mechanisms, and Cosmological Utility of Type la Supernovae
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$8.8K
- Collaborative Research: The Aspherical Nature and Evolution of Supernovae
Co-Investigator (COI)
2012
$400.3K
- Spitzer GO8 PID 80126
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$6.0K
- Studying Type Ia Supernovae with Swift UVOT
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$455.0K
News
- Accelerating Universe: Not As Fast?
2015
- 'Super-LOTIS' Telescope on Kitt Peak Helps Catch Exploding Stars
2006
Publications (31)
Recent
- Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies
2021
- SN 2014ab: An Aspherical Type IIn Supernova with Low Polarization
2020
- Multiepoch Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011fe
2017
- The Persistent Eruption of UGC 2773-OT: finally, a decade-long extragalactic Eta Carinae analogue
2016
- Detection of a Light Echo from the Otherwise Normal SN 2007af
2015
- Early Observations and Analysis of the Type Ia SN 2014J in M82
2015
- The Changing Fractions of Type Ia Supernova NUV-Optical Subclasses with Redshift
2015
- Strong near-infrared carbon in the Type Ia supernova iPTF13ebh
2015
- Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011dh in M51: geometric insights on a Type IIb supernova progenitor and explosion
2015
- Spectropolarimetry of SN 2011fe
2014
- The Supernova Spectropolarimetry Project: Evolution of Asymmetries in the Very Luminous Type Ib SN 2012au
2014
- SMASH: The Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History
2014
- Establishing a Network of Next Generation SED Standards with DA White Dwarfs
2014
- The Supernova Spectropolarimetry Project: Photometric Followup in the Optical and Near- Infrared by the Mount Laguna Supernova Survey
2014
- The Supernova Spectropolarimetry Project: Results from Multi-Epoch Observations of the Type IIb SN 2011dh
2014
- Late Light Curves of the Subluminous SN 2005mz
2013
- SN 2011ht: confirming a class of interacting supernovae with plateau light curves (Type IIn-P)
2013
- A Light Echo Candidate from Supernova 2009ig
2013
- The BVRIJH Power of 3 Thermonuclear Supernovae Out to 500 Days
2013
- Grouping Normal Type Ia Supernovae by UV to Optical Color Differences
2013
- The Mid-Infrared and Optical Decay of SN 2011fe
2013
- Late Light Curves of SN 2002cx-like Type Ia Supernovae
2013
- GRB 091024A and the Nature of Ultra-long Gamma-Ray Bursts
2013
- The Detection of a Light Echo from Type Ia SN 2007af in NGC 5584
2013
- A Swift Look at SN 2011fe: The Earliest Ultraviolet Observations of a Type Ia Supernova
2012
- Early Ultraviolet Observations of a Type IIn Supernova (2007pk)
2012
- Constraints on Type Ia Supernova Progenitor Companions from Early Ultraviolet Observations with Swift
2012
- The Low-velocity, Rapidly Fading Type Ia Supernova 2002es
2012
- The cold veil of the Milky Way stellar halo
2012
- The Supernova Spectropolarimetry Project; A Study of the Evolution of Aspherical Stellar Explosions
2012
- Evidence for Type Ia Supernova Diversity from Ultraviolet Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope
2012