I am an Ohio State University undergraduate alum now in the astronomy and astrophysics graduate program at Penn State University.
I started work with Dr. Christopher Kochanek and the ASAS-SN group in the fall of my junior year of college where I began work on my first project, "The ASAS-SN Bright Supernova Catalog -- V. 2018-2020", in the following spring.
Following this, I worked as a full time ASAS-SN Data Analyst with Dr. Kochanek and Dr. Krzysztof Stanek.
As an ASAS-SN Data Analyst, I perform daily quality control analyses on images taken by ASAS-SN's twenty 14cm telescopes located around the world, and I manage follow ups of possible transient sources.
In addition to these responsibilities, I conduct personal research with Dr. Kochanek and Dr. Michael Tucker on supernovae light echoes.
Research Interests: Supernovae and transients, high energy astrophysics, extragalactic astrophysics
Fun Fact: I'm a triplet with two brothers. No, we are not identical.
SS Cyg Observation Poster
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RS Ophiuchi Spectral Analysis Presentation
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Research
Current Research Light echo distance calculations of galactic supernovae
I'm working with Dr. Chris Kochanek and Dr. Michael Tucker on calculating the distances to Cassiopeia A and Tycho's Supernova using their light echos and 3D dustmaps.
Past Research Position ASAS-SN Data Analyst
Data analyst of ASAS-SN photometric data.
I work on daily quality control of images taken by ASAS-SN and help name and release transient source candidates including Supernovae (SNe), Cataclysmic Variables (CVs), Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) and more to the ASAS-SN Transients Webpage.
The candidates include both sources discovered by ASAS-SN and sources discovered by another group but independently detected by ASAS-SN.
Publications: The ASAS-SN Bright Supernova Catalog -- V. 2018-2020
This catalog contains data on almost 1500 supernovae and their host galaxies.
Due to the nature of the ASAS-SN telescopes, this catalog focuses on spectroscopically confirmed supernova with brightnesses above 18th magnitude in the g-band.
Supernovae discovered by ASAS-SN and supernova discovered by other groups are included, and we label whether we independently recovered externally discovered supenovae from ASAS-SN photometry.
This catalog is meant to allow for large statistical analyses utilizing both these supernova and those from the previous four catalogs for a total sample of 2427 bright supernovae.
Neumann, K. D., et al. "The ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue -- V. 2018-2020", 2023, MNRAS, 520, 4356
Condor Array Telescope The Condor Array Telescope is an astronomical research telescope built, concieved, and managed by a small project team at Stony Brook University.
The Project is funded by the Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation Program of the National Science Foundation. This is disuccsed in my research section of the website but I will link the poster for this project here also.
Photometric Observations of the Dwarf Nova SS Cyg Immediately Following an Outburst In the Fall of 2020 I took V-band observations of the Dwarf Nova SS Cygni immediately following an outburst and measured the magnitude decremenet over the span of three weeks. The observation and data analsyis was carried out entirely by myself and two other
senior astrophysics students. The poster I presented on this project is linked below.
Evolution of Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi via Optical Spectroscopy In the Fall of 2020 I utilized archived data from the SMARTS/Stony Brook Atlas of Southern Novae
to perform a spectral analysis of RS Oph's 2006 outburst. I then gave a presentation on the spectral evolution using optical
spectroscopy data. This presentation is linked below.
Education
The Ohio State University -- Columbus, OH May 2022 Bachelor of Science in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 2nd Major in Physics
Magna Cum Laude
with honor in Arts and Sciences
Teaching Experience
Astronomy 1102 & 1144: Introductory Level Astronomy Courses where I helped prepare homework, wrote daily quizzes, managed attendance, and graded assignments.
Physics 2300 & 2301: Intermediate Classical Mechanics Courses where I tutored students on past and current material and worked with groups of students on weekly assignments.
Contact
Email: kdn5172@psu.edu
neumann.kyle15@gmail.com
Address: 537 Davey Laboratory
State College, PA 16801
