Rob Knop
Curriculum Vitae
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Robert A. Knop Jr.
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Education
- Ph.D., Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1997
Thesis title: Spatially Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies
- M.S., Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1992
- B.S., Physics, Harvey Mudd College, 1990
Current Appointments
- Production Operations Engineer, Linden Lab (2007-present)
- Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University (2007-present)
Previous Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University (2001-2007)
- Postdoctoral Fellow Physicist with the Supernova Cosmology Project, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1996-2001)
Research Interests
- Cosmology
- Galaxy interactions and mergers
- Starburst galaxies
- Active galactic nuclei
Professional Societies
- Americal Physical Society
- American Astronomical Society
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- American Association of Physics Teachers
Honors and Awards
- 2007: Gruber Prize in Cosmology (together with the rest of the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Team)
- 2004: Chancellor's Award for Research, Vanderbilt University
Selected Recent Publications
Conley et al., "Measurement of ΩM, ΩΛ from a Blind Analysis of Type Ia Supernovae with CMAGIC: Using Color Information to Verify the Acceleration of the Universe", 2006, The Astrophysical Journal, 644, 1 (astro-ph/0602411)
Sullivan et al., "Photometric selection of high-redshift type Ia supernovae", 2006, The Astronomical Journal, 131, 960 (astro-ph/0510857)
Howell et al., "Gemini Spectroscopy of Supernovae from the Supernova Legacy Survey: Improving High-Redshift Supernova Selection and Classification", 2005, The Astrophysical Journal, 634, 1190 (astro-ph/0509195)
Hook et al., "Spectra of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae and a Comparison with Their Low-Redshift Counterparts", 2005, The Astronomical Journal, 120, 2788 (astro-ph/0509041)
Nobili et al., "Restframe I-band Hubble diagram for type Ia supernovae up to redshift z~0.5", 2005, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 437, 789 (astro-ph/0504139)
Lidman et al., "Spectroscopic confirmation of high-redshift supernovae with the ESO VLT", 2005 Astronomy and Astrophysics, 430, 843 (astro-ph/0410506)
Knop et al., "New Constraints on ΩM, ΩΛ, and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST", 2003, The Astrophysical Journal, 598, 102 (astro-ph/0309368) (Preprint, Figures, and Data)
Nobili, Goobar, Knop, and Nugent, "The intrinsic colour dispersion in Type Ia supernovae", 2003, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 404, 901 (astro-ph/0304240)
Sullivan et al., "The Hubble Diagram of Type Ia Supernovae as a Function of Host Galaxy Morphology", 2003, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 340, 1057 (astro-ph/0211444)
Strolger et al., "The Type Ia Supernova 1999aw: a Probable 1999aa-like Event In a Low-Luminosity Host Galaxy", 2002, Astronomical Journal, 124, 2905 (astro-ph/0207409)
Pain et al., "The Distant Type Ia Supernova Rate", 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 577, 120 (astro-ph/0205476)
Goldhaber et al., "Timescale Stretch Parameterization of Type Ia Supernova B-Band Light Curves", 2001, Astrophysical Journal, 558, 359 (astro-ph/0104382)
Knop et al., "Spatially Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Seyfert 2 Galaxies Mk 1066, NGC 2110, NGC 4388, and Mk 3", 2001, Astronomical Journal, 122, 764 (astro-ph/0105455)
Aldering, Knop, & Nugent, "The Rise Times of High- and Low-Redshift Type IA Supernovae Are Consistent", 2000, Astronomical Journal, 119, 2110 (astro-ph/0001049)
Perlmutter et al., "Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae", 1999, Astrophysical Journal, 517, 565 (astro-ph/9812133)
Perlmutter et al., "Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the universe", 1998, Nature, 391, 51 (astro-ph/9712212)