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SCOTT M. ADAMS
CURRICULUM VITAE
California Institute of Technology
Cahill 249-17
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125-0001
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: (626) 395-8676
Web: www.astro.caltech.edu/∼sma
Education
The Ohio State University
The Ohio State University
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy
Physics
Ph.D.,
M.S.,
B.S., Magna Cum Laude,
B.S., Magna Cum Laude,
2016
2014
2011
2011
Primary Research Interests
Massive stars & transients
Awards
Allan Markowitz Award, OSU Dept of Astronomy
Presidential Fellow, OSU Graduate School
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
Galileo Circle Scholar, U. of Arizona College of Science
Vesto M. Slipher Scholarship, U. of Arizona Dept of Astronomy
Booher Endowed Scholarship, U. of Arizona Dept of Astronomy
Arizona Astronomy Board Donors Scholarship, U. of Arizona Dept of Astronomy
Kenneth & Paula Krane Scholarship, U. of Arizona Dept of Physics
Gregson Scholarship, U. of Arizona Dept of Physics
Lagandas Scholarship, U. of Arizona Dept of Astronomy
2015
2015
2012
2009, 2010
2010
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
Professional History
Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech Astronomy Dept
Graduate Student Researcher, OSU Dept of Astronomy
Advisors: Christopher Kochanek & Paul Martini
Graduate Teaching Assistant, OSU Dept of Astronomy
Undergraduate Student Researcher, U. of Arizona Dept of Astronomy
Advisor: Dennis Zaritsky
Summer Research Intern, NSF REU in Astronomy, Indiana University
Advisor: Constantine Deliyannis
Summer Research Intern, NSF REU at Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Advisor: Tom Jones
2016–Present
2011–2016
2011–2014
2009–2011
2010
2009
Relevant Technical Skills
Data Experience with photometry/spectroscopy from: Hubble, Spitzer, LBT, CFHT, Magellan
Programming Languages: Python, C, FORTRAN, IDL
Sofware Experience: IRAF, DOLPHOT, ISIS
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Successful Proposals
PI: Probing Slowly-evolving Stellar Outbursts and Variabilty
1 night - Keck, 2017A
Co-I: Radio Observations of an Obscured Supernova Candidate in M108
2.0 hours - VLA, DDT, 2016
Co-I: SPIRITS: SPitzer InfraRed Intensive Transients Survey
285.7 hours, SST, Spitzer Proposal ID #13053 (Cycle 13)
Co-I: Monitoring the M31 Stellar Merger Transient
0.4 hours - SST, Spitzer Proposal ID #12063 (Cycle 12)
Co-I: Confirming NGC 6946 BH1 - A Black Hole Formed in a Failed Supernova
2 orbits - HST, Hubble Proposal ID GO-14266 (Cycle 23)
60 ksec - Chandra, Proposal ID 14700473 (Cycle 17)
0.75 hours - SST
Co-I: A Stellar Merger in M31
1.5 hours - SST, Spitzer Proposal ID #11181 (Cycle 11 DD)
Co-I: Monitoring the Evolution of the New Class of Self-Obscured Transients
2 orbits - HST, Hubble Proposal ID GO-14844 (Cycle 24)
1.7 hours - SST, Spitzer Proposal ID #13022 (Cycle 13)
4 orbits - HST, Hubble Proposal ID GO-14049 (Cycle 22)
3.4 hours - SST, Spitzer Proposal ID #11084 (Cycle 11)
PI: A Search for Overdensities around z=4 QSOs
9 hours - LBT, MODS spectroscopy, 2013
Co-I: A Pilot Search for Overdensities around z=4 QSOs
30 hours - LBT, LBC imaging and MODS spectroscopy, 2011-2012
Observing Experience
102 nights over 26 observing runs at 11 different telescopes
Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), 43 nights
MDM 2.4m Hiltner Telescope, 18 nights
MDM 1.3m McGraw-Hill Telescope, 14 nights
SAAO 1.0m Telescope, 7 nights
Palomar Hale 200”, 6 nights
Keck Observatory, 4 nights
WIYN 0.9m Telescope, 4 nights
Palomar 48” Samuel Oschin Telescope, 3 nights
Steward Observatory 61” Mt. Bigelow Telescope, 1 night
Steward Observatory 2.1m Bok Telescope, 1 night
Gattini-IR, 1 night
Conference Talks and Poster Presentations
Eta Carinae, LBVs, and Supernova Impostors, Pittsburgh, PA
SN Impostor Impostors
Phenomena, Physics, and Puzzles of Massive Stars, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
Finding Failed Supernovae
2017
2017
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PTF-Theory Network Workshop, San Rafael, CA
Finding Failed Supernovae
GROWTH Conference, Pasadena, CA
Searching for Failed Supernovae
American Astronomical Society Meeting #227, Kissimmee, FL
Late-time Constraints on the Fates of Supernova Impostors
Fifty-One Erg: Workshop on the Physics and Observations of Supernovae, Raleigh, NC
Are SN 2008S-like Events Supernovae?
2nd Annual GMT Community Science Meeting: Transient Phenomena, Washington D.C.
SN 1997bs: Another SN Impostor Impostor?
American Astronomical Society Meeting #217, Seattle, WA
WIYN Open Cluster Study: Spectroscopic Abundances of M34
2016
2016
2016
2015
2014
2011
Press Releases
Could a Milky Way Supernova Be Visible from Earth in the Next 50 Years?
(http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/supernova50.htm)
Outreach & Service
Planetarium Presenter, OSU
Star Party Volunteer, OSU
Science Olympiad Mentor
2011–2014
2011–2014
2012–2013
Refereed Journal Publications
7 first-author, 3 with major contributions, and 5 with minor contributions
15. Mathur, S. and 149 others including Adams, S.M., Understanding the UV Anomaly in NGC
5548 with X-Ray Spectroscopy, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
14. Adams, S.M, Kochanek, C.S., Gerke, J.R., & Stanek, K.Z., The Search for Failed Supernovae
with the Large Binocular Telescope: Constraints from 7 Years of Data, arXiv:1610.02402,
accepted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
13. Fausnaugh, M. M. and 70 others including Adams, S. M., Reverberation Mapping of Optical
Emission Lines in Five Active Galaxies, arXiv:1610.00008, accepted to The Astrophysical
Journal
12. Adams, S.M., Kochanek, C.S., Gerke, J.R., Stanek, K.Z., The Search for Failed Supernovae
with the Large Binocular Telescope: Confirmation of a Disappearing Star, arXiv:1609:01283,
accepted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
11. Pei, L. and 155 others including Adams, S.M., Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation
Mapping Project V: Optical Spectroscopic Campaign and Emission-line Analysis for NGC
5548, 2017, The Astrophysical Journal, 837, 131
10. Kochanek, C.S., Fraser, M., Adams, S.M. et al. Supernova Progenitors, Their Variability,
and the Type IIP Supernova ASASSN-16fq in M66, 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, 467, 3347
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9. Adams, S.M., Kochanek, C.S., Prieto, J.L., Dai, X., Shappee, B.J., & Stanek, K.Z., Almost
Gone: SN 2008S and NGC 300 2008OT-1 are Fainter than their Progenitors, 2016, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460, 1645
8. Khan, R., Adams, S.M., Stanek, K.Z., Kochanek, C.S., & Sonneborn, G., Discovery of Five
Candidate Analogs for η Carinae in Nearby Galaxies, 2015, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 815, L18
7. Adams, S.M. & Kochanek, C.S., LOSS’s First Supernova? New Limits on the Supernova
“Impostor” SN 1997bs, 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452, 2195
6. Adams, S.M., Martini, P., Croxall, K.V., Overzier, R.A., & Silverman, J.D., Discovery of
an Overdensity of Lyman-alpha Emitters Around a z ∼ 4 QSO with the Large Binocular
Telescope, 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448, 1335
5. Kochanek, C.S., Adams, S.M., & Belczynski, K., Stellar mergers are Common, 2014, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 443, 1319
4. Shappee, B.J. and 46 others including Adams, S.M., The Man behind the Curtain: X-Rays
Drive the UV through NIR Variability in the 2013 Active Galactic Nucleus Outburst in NGC
2617, 2014, The Astrophysical Journal, 788, 48
3. Adams, S.M., Kochanek, C.S., Beacom, J.F., Vagins, M.R., Stanek, K.Z., Observing the Next
Galactic Supernova, 2013, The Astrophysical Journal, 778, 164
2. Adams, S.M., Zaritsky, D., Sand, D.J., Graham, M.L., Bildfell, C., Hoekstra, H., & Pritchet,
C., The Environmental Dependence of the Incidence of Galactic Tidal Features, 2012, The
Astronomical Journal, 144, 128
1. For, B.-Q. et al. and 19 others including Adams, S.M., Modeling the System Parameters
of 2M 1533+3759: A New Longer Period Low-Mass Eclipsing sdB+dM Binary, 2010, The
Astrophysical Journal, 708, 253
Non-refereed Articles
17. Blagorodnova, N., Kupfer, T., Burdge, K., Kasliwal, M., & Adams, S., Spectroscopic classification of PS17chm with Double Spectrograph on Palomar 200-inch telescope, 2017, The
Astronomer’s Telegram, 10311
16. Jencson, J. E., Lau, R. M., Kasliwal, M. M., Bond, H. E., Adams, S. et al., Spitzer prediscovery limits on PS17cke (=AT2017des), 2017, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 10299
15. Blagorodnova, N. & Adams, S., Spectroscopic classification of Gaia17apq and Gaia17apv with
Double Spectrograph on Palomar 200-inch telescope, 2017, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 10192
14. Jencson, J. E., Kasliwal, M. M., Adams, S. et al., Additional SPIRITS Discoveries of Infrared
Transients and Variables without Counterparts in Reference Imaging, 2017, The Astronomer’s
Telegram, 10172
13. Jencson, J. E., Kasliwal, M. M., Adams, S. et al., Additional SPIRITS Discoveries of Infrared
Transients and Variables with Counterparts in Reference Imaging, 2017, The Astronomer’s
Telegram, 10171
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12. Adams, S et al., iPTF Discovery and Identification of Bright Transients, 2017, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 10060
11. Kupfer, T. and 10 others including Adams, S., iPTF Discovery and Identification of Bright
Transients, 2017, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 10038
10. Blagorodnova, N. and 11 others including Adams, S., iPTF Discovery and Identification of
Bright Transients, 2017, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9978
9. Blagorodnova, N., Neill, J., Kasliwal, M., Walters, R., & Adams, S., Follow-up observations
of DLT16am/AT2016ija with SEDM, 2016, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9787
8. Adams, S. M., Jencson, & J. E. Kasliwal, M. M., Swift follow-up of SPIRITS16tn, 2016,
Astronomical Telegram, 9441
7. Jencson, J. E., Adams, S. et al., SPIRITS16tn: Spitzer Discovery of a Possible Supernova in
Messier 108 at 8.8 Mpc, 2016, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 9434
6. Bersier, D., Kochanek, C. S., Wagner, R. M., Adams, S., Dong, Subo, Optical “Vanishing” of
the 2015 M31 Stellar Merger, 2015, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 7537
5. Adams, S., Kochanek, C. S., Dong, Subo, & Wagner, R. M., Further Spitzer Observations of
the 2015 M31 Stellar Merger, 2015, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 7485
4. Wagner, R.M., Starrfield, S.G., Wilber, A., Kochanek, C.S., Dong, S., Prieto, J.-L., & Adams,
S., The Probable M31 Stellar Merger Now Has a Late K or Early M Spectrum, 2015, The
Astronomer’s Telegram, 7208
3. Dong, Subo, Kochanek, C. S., Adams, S., & Prieto, J.-L., The Probable M31 Stellar Merger:
Identification and Variability of the Likely Progenitor System, 2015, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 7173
2. Gerke, J., Adams, S. M., Kochanek, C. S., & Stanek, K. Z., Recent Evolution of PSN
J14021678+5426205 in M101 Using LBT, 2015, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 7069
1. Garnavich, P., Littlefield, C., Terndrup, D., & Adams, S., V418 Ser: A Sub-Period Minimum
CV With Hydrogen, 2014, The Astronomer’s Telegram, 6287