Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Robert A. Schommer Prize
The Robert A. Schommer Prize honors former Rutgers astronomer
Prof. Robert A. Schommer, who was committed to excellence in
astronomical research, including in his studies of stellar
populations and his co-discovery of the accelerating expansion
of the Universe through observations of supernovae, as well as
to the development of research and graduate study in
astrophysics at Rutgers.
The Prize shall be awarded to the one student who, in the
collective judgment of the astrophysics faculty in the
Department, has published the best first-author, refereed journal article
in the field of astrophysics (broadly construed).
Winners of the Robert A. Schommer Prize
- 2024: Conor Larison
Adviser: Saurabh Jha
Article: ``Environmental Dependence of Type Ia Supernovae
in Low-redshift Galaxy Clusters''
Authors: Conor Larison, Saurabh W. Jha, Lindsey A. Kwok, and Yssavo Camacho-Neves
Journal: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 961, Issue 2, id.185,
DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0e0f (December 13, 2023)
- 2023: Lindsey Kwok
Advisor: Prof. Saurabh Jha
Article: ``Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and TARDIS Models of the Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova 2014ad''
Authors: Lindsey Kwok, Marc Williamson, Saurabh W. Jha, Maryam Modjaz, Yssavo Camacho-Neves, Ryan J. Foley, Peter Garnavich, Keiichi Maeda, Dan Milisavljevic, Viraj Pandya, Mi Dai, Curtis McCully, Tyler Pritchard, and Jaladh Singhal
Journal: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 937, Article 40, 19 pp. (September 20, 2022)
- 2022: Charlotte Olsen
Advisor: Prof. Eric Gawiser
Article: ``Star Formation Histories from Spectral Energy Distributions and Color–magnitude Diagrams Agree: Evidence for Synchronized Star Formation in Local Volume Dwarf Galaxies over the Past 3 Gyr''
Authors: Charlotte Olsen, Eric Gawiser, Kartheik Iyer, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Benjamin D. Johnson, Grace Telford, Anna C. Wright, Adam Broussard, and Peter Kurczynski
Journal: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 913, Article 45, 19 pp. (May 20, 2021)
- 2021: Ray Sharma
Advisor: Prof. Alyson Brooks
Article: ``Black Hole Growth and Feedback in Isolated ROMULUS25 Dwarf Galaxies''
Authors: Ray S. Sharma, Alyson M. Brooks, Rachel S. Somerville, Michael Tremmel, Jillian Bellovary, Anna C. Wright, and Thomas R. Quinn
Journal: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 897, Article 103, 16 pp. (July 1, 2020)
- 2020: Elaad Applebaum
Advisor: Prof. Alyson Brooks
Article: ``A stochastically sampled IMF alters the stellar content of simulated dwarf galaxies''
Authors: Elaad Applebaum, Alyson M Brooks, Thomas R Quinn, Charlotte R Christensen
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 492, 8 - 21 (February 2020)
- 2019: Anna Wright
Advisor: Prof. Alyson Brooks
Article: ``Reignition of star formation in dwarf galaxies''
Authors: Anna C. Wright, Alyson M. Brooks, Daniel R. Weisz, Charlotte R. Christensen
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 482, 1176 - 1189 (January 2019)
- 2018: John Wu
Advisor: Prof. Andrew Baker
Article: ``Herschel and ALMA Observations of Massive SZE-selected Clusters''
Authors: John F. Wu, Paula Aguirre, Andrew J. Baker, Mark J. Devlin,
Matt Hilton, John P. Hughes, Leopoldo Infante, Robert R. Lindner, and Cristóbal Sifón
Journal: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 853, Article 195, 25 pp. (February 1, 2018)
- 2017: Kartheik Iyer
Advisor: Prof. Eric Gawiser
Article: ``Reconstruction of Galaxy Star Formation Histories through
SED Fitting:The Dense Basis Approach''
Authors: Iyer, Kartheik; Gawiser, Eric
Journal: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 838, Article 127, 24 pp. (April 3, 2017)
- 2016: Ryan Brennan
Advisor: Prof. Rachel Somerville
Article: ``Quenching and morphological transformation in
semi-analytic models and CANDELS''
Authors: Brennan, Ryan; Pandya, Viraj; Somerville, Rachel S.; Barro,
Guillermo; Taylor, Edward N.; Wuyts, Stijn; Bell, Eric F.; Dekel,
Avishai; Ferguson, Henry C.; McIntosh, Daniel H.; Papovich, Casey;
Primack, Joel
Journal: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
Vol. 451, 2933-2956 (August 11, 2015)
- 2015: Carl Mitchell
Advisor: Prof. Jerry Sellwood
Article: ``The RINGS Survey: Halpha and HI Velocity Maps of Galaxy
NGC 2280''
Authors: Mitchell, C. J.; Williams, T. B.; Spekkens, K.;
Lee-Waddell, K.; Kuzio de Naray, R. & Sellwood, J. A.
Journal: The Astronomical Journal, v149, p116, 2015. Also posted as arXiv:1412.5444
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