Name Robert Quimby Role Astronomer | Albums Everything Sucks | |
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Education University of Texas at Austin Music group Reel Big Fish (1994 – 1995) Similar People Tavis Werts, Grant Barry, Dan Regan, Scott Klopfenstein, Aaron Barrett | ||
Sackler Conference 2016 -- Robert Quimby: Type I and II SLSNe
Robert Quimby (born 1976) is an American astronomer who received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. As a lead member of the Texas Supernova Survey, Quimby and his team used the relatively small 18-inch ROTSE-IIIb robotic telescope on McDonald Observatory’s Mount Fowlkes, along with a program he designed to track supernovae. In 2005, Quimby discovered SN2005ap, at this writing the brightest explosion ever recorded. Quimby measured the burst at 100 billion times the luminosity of our sun, at a distance of 4.7 billion light years. As a comparison, this supernova occurred 160 million years before the formation of the Earth. Quimby continues his research at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.
From 1994-1995, Quimby played trombone with the ska band Reel Big Fish.