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Kilpatrick
[kil-pa-trik]
noun
Hugh Judson 1836–81, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
Example Sentences
Kilpatrick, a research assistant professor at Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, is an expert on the life cycles of massive stars.
"I've been arguing in favor of that interpretation, but even I didn't expect to see such an extreme example as SN2025pht," Kilpatrick said.
"The infrared wavelengths of our observations overlap with an important silicate dust feature that's characteristic of some red supergiant spectra," Kilpatrick said.
"For multiple decades, we have been trying to determine exactly what the explosions of red supergiant stars look like," said Northwestern's Charlie Kilpatrick, who led the study.
"SN2025pht is surprising because it appeared much redder than almost any other red supergiant we've seen explode as a supernova," Kilpatrick added.
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