Publications

Author of over 389 refereed articles (1993–2026), h-index of 114.

The non-refereed entries are mostly IAU Circulars, Astronomer's Telegrams and BAAS abstracts.

Selected Publications

• Anya Nugent & Peter Nugent, “Dying star reveals its inner structure,” Nature 644 (2025).
• Fitz Axen, M. & P. Nugent, “The Progenitors of Superluminous Type Ia Supernovae,” The Astrophysical Journal 953 (2023).
• Oyama, Y., P. Nugent et al., “The Case for Strong Scaling in Deep Learning: Training Large 3D CNNs with Hybrid Parallelism,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2021).
• Polin, A., P. Nugent & D. Kasen, “Observational Predictions for Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Explosions: Further Evidence for Multiple Progenitor Systems for Type Ia Supernovae,” ApJ 873 (2019).
• Goldstein, D. A. & P. E. Nugent, “How to Find Gravitationally Lensed Type Ia Supernovae,” ApJ 834 (2017).
• Nugent, P. E. et al., “Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon-oxygen white dwarf star,” Nature 480 (2011).
• Law, N. M., S. R. Kulkarni, P. E. Nugent et al., “The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance, and First Results,” PASP 121 (2009).
• Nugent et al., “Toward a Cosmological Hubble Diagram for Type II-P Supernovae,” ApJ 645, 841 (2006).
• Nugent, P., A. Kim & S. Perlmutter, “K-Corrections and Extinction Corrections for Type Ia Supernovae,” PASP 114, 803 (2002).
• Perlmutter, S., G. Aldering, P. Nugent et al., “Measurements of Ω_M and Ω_Λ from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae,” ApJ 517 (1999).
• Nugent et al., “Evidence for a Spectroscopic Sequence among Type Ia Supernovae,” ApJL 455, L147 (1995).

Older Papers with Data on This Site

A few older papers are hosted here in PostScript, along with the data files that go with them. They are kept because other pages and papers link to them.

• Towards a Cosmological Hubble Diagram for Type II-P Supernovae Nugent et al., ApJ 645, 841 (2006) The first high-redshift Hubble diagram for SNe II-P, built from CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey photometry and Keck spectroscopy, with three refinements to the Hamuy & Pinto method that make it practical at cosmologically interesting redshifts. The resulting Hubble diagram scatters by only 0.26 mag. Data: filters · griz photometry — time (JD), flux (erg/s/cm²/Å), sigma-flux, plus the zero points. Note these zero points and filters are not an exact match to the SNLS first-year data release; the ~2% difference is carried as a calibration uncertainty in the paper.
• Type IIP Supernovae as Cosmological Probes: A Spectral-fitting Expanding Atmosphere Model Distance to SN 1999em Baron, Nugent, Branch & Hauschildt, ApJ 616, 91 (2004) Introduces the spectral-fitting expanding atmosphere method (SEAM) and shows it agrees with the Cepheid distance to SN 1999em, where the expanding photosphere method falls 50% short.
• Could There Be a Hole in Type Ia Supernovae? Kasen, Nugent, Thomas & Wang, ApJ 610, 876 (2004) Multidimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer through the conical hole a non-degenerate companion carves in the ejecta. The supernova looks normal from almost every viewing angle except straight down the hole, where it resembles the SN 1991T class.
• K-corrections and Extinction Corrections for Type Ia Supernovae Nugent, Kim & Perlmutter, PASP 114, 803 (2002) Generalized K-corrections for SNe Ia from the UV to the near-IR over 0 < z < 2. This is the paper to read before using the spectral templates.
• High-Redshift Supernovae in the Hubble Deep Field Gilliland, Phillips & Nugent, ApJ 521, 30 (1999)
• GRB 020410: A Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Discovered by its Supernova Light Levan et al., ApJ (2005)
• Discovery of a Transient U-Band Dropout in a Lyman Break Survey: A Tidally Disrupted Star at z=3.3? Stern et al., ApJ 612, 690 (2004)

Thesis

Non-LTE Spectrum Synthesis of Type Ia Supernovae, University of Oklahoma, 1997. Advisor: Edward Baron. Rebuilt in 2026 from the original LaTeX source as a searchable PDF with a navigable table of contents — 106 pages, unchanged from the 1997 layout.

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