Doug Rich (original) (raw)
Doug Rich (born 1948, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American amateur astronomer, supernova discoverer, and team leader for the Eagle Hill Supernova Search Project. He is also a former ZYGO optician and telescope maker and now lives in Hampden, Maine, USA. In 1999 he established Rich Observatory and has since discovered 26 extragalactic supernovae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Doug Rich (born 1948, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American amateur astronomer, supernova discoverer, and team leader for the Eagle Hill Supernova Search Project. He is also a former ZYGO optician and telescope maker and now lives in Hampden, Maine, USA. In 1999 he established Rich Observatory and has since discovered 26 extragalactic supernovae. Rich has received attention for his work with discovering supernovae. He wrote an article in Astronomy Magazine on the topic and was later featured in Sky and Telescope magazine, which identified him as one of four leading amateurs in the field of discovering supernovae. Rich has had three notable supernova discoveries. SN 2005ay, was a relatively nearby type II-P (plateau) supernova caught soon after explosion. Extensive observations of SN 2005ay in galaxy NGC 3938, with the GALEX Space Telescope and numerous land-based telescopes, helped astronomers confirm the theory that type II-P supernovae can be used as "standard candles" - a way to measure distances to distant galaxies. SN2010X was an uncommon merger of two white dwarf stars in galaxy NGC 1573A. This rare type of supernova which has spectral characteristics similar to a type Ia, is dubbed a .Ia (point one a) because it is one-tenth as luminous as a normal type Ia supernova and also fades in about one-tenth the time. Another unique discovery, SN2010al, was a rare explosion of a Wolf-Rayet Star in galaxy UGC 4286. This find, also discovered at an early stage, was influential in establishing a new supernova sub-classification - the type Ibn. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://www.galex.caltech.edu/about/overview.html http://www.richobservatory.com/ https://scirate.com/arxiv/0806.3276 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AIPC..924..271B http://authors.library.caltech.edu/21374/1/Kasliwal2010p12074Astrophys_J_Lett.pdf http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/%3Fread=2491 http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/%3Fread=448 http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/11/05_rapid_supernova.shtml http://www.eaglehill.us/programs/astronomy/supernova-search.shtml https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04946 |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 38360930 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 3027 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1091694333 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbc:Living_people dbr:Connecticut dbr:NGC_3938 dbr:Cosmic_distance_ladder dbr:Maine dbr:Sky_&_Telescope dbc:1948_births dbr:Hampden,_Maine dbr:Hartford,_Connecticut dbr:Astronomy_(magazine) dbc:Amateur_astronomers dbc:People_from_Hartford,_Connecticut dbr:Supernova dbr:Supernovae dbr:Type_Ia_supernova dbr:Zygo_Corporation dbr:Wolf-Rayet_Star dbr:Ia_supernova |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Citation_needed dbt:Reflist |
| dcterms:subject | dbc:Living_people dbc:1948_births dbc:Amateur_astronomers dbc:People_from_Hartford,_Connecticut |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Astronomer |
| rdf:type | dbo:Person yago:WikicatLivingPeople yago:WikicatPeopleFromHartford,Connecticut yago:Astronomer109818343 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Physicist110428004 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:Scientist110560637 yago:Whole100003553 yago:WikicatAmateurAstronomers |
| rdfs:comment | Doug Rich (born 1948, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American amateur astronomer, supernova discoverer, and team leader for the Eagle Hill Supernova Search Project. He is also a former ZYGO optician and telescope maker and now lives in Hampden, Maine, USA. In 1999 he established Rich Observatory and has since discovered 26 extragalactic supernovae. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Doug Rich (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Doug Rich yago-res:Doug Rich wikidata:Doug Rich https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4jBYL |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Doug_Rich?oldid=1091694333&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Doug_Rich |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:UGC_8335 |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Doug_Rich |