Homepage of Stéphane Blondin

Download the Supernova Identification (SNID) code here

I am an astrophysicist at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM). My research mainly revolves around the analysis of radiation from exploding stars known as supernovae. At LAM I lead the Transients discussion group.

I defended my PhD thesis, entitled "Optical Spectra of Thermonuclear Supernovae in the Local and Distant Universe", at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Munich, Germany) in November 2005.

During my postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) I founded the CfA Supernova Archive, where you can freely download light curves and spectra of many supernovae.

You can view my CV here [pdf]

Supernova model results

Repository of the results from our numerical simulations on supernovae: https://www-n.oca.eu/supernova/home.html.

This research has benefited from funding by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche from 2011 to 2016, under grant number ANR-2011-Blanc-SIMI-5-6-007-01. See the project description here: RTCCSN.

Recent Publications

[more under Publications]

Evidence for sub-Chandrasekhar-mass progenitors of Type Ia supernovae at the faint end of the width-luminosity relation [ADS, astro-ph]

Blondin, S., Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J., Khokhlov, A. M. 2017. MNRAS, 470, 157

A one-dimensional Chandrasekhar-mass delayed-detonation model for the broad-lined Type Ia supernova 2002bo [ADS, astro-ph]

Blondin, S., Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J. 2015. MNRAS, 448, 2766 The hydrodynamical input and synthetic spectra are available here.

One-dimensional delayed-detonation models of Type Ia supernovae: Confrontation to observations at bolometric maximum [ADS, astro-ph]

Blondin, S., Dessart, L., Hillier, D. J., Khokhlov, A. M. 2013. MNRAS, 429, 2127. The maximum-light spectra of the DDC model series can be downloaded here. Also included are the hydro grid (velocity, density) and abundance profiles for ⁵⁶Ni, Ni, Si, and O within 20-60 s from explosion.

Last updated on: 5 Sep 2017