Dr Blanchard was a CIERA Postdoc from 2019 – 2024.
Following his time at CIERA, Dr. Blanchard became a Research Scientist at Harvard University.
Peter Blanchard studies superluminous supernovae, tidal disruption events, gamma-ray bursts, and electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave events.
In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, GRB 221009A. In a paper published in April 2024, a team led by CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Peter Blanchard has confirmed that the phenomenon responsible for the historic burst — dubbed the B.O.A.T. (“brightest of all time”)
Aaron M. Geller / Northwestern / CIERA / IT Research Computing and Data Services
A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified by an international team of astronomers. Continue to the full article at University of Birmingham News. View the Nature Astronomy article, “An extremely energetic supernova from a very massive star in a dense medium”
Aaron M. Geller – Northwestern IT
