
Robert David Stein
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Post-Doctoral Associate
I grew up in London, UK and did my undergraduate studies there at Imperial College. I then did my PhD at DESY Zeuthen in Germany, supervised by Anna Franckowiak. My PhD focused on multi-messenger astronomy, and I searched for sources of neutrinos using the IceCube (a neutrino observatory) and ZTF (an optical survey). I also worked on the IceCube public alert system. I then spent three years as a postdoc at Caltech working with Mansi M. Kasliwal, and searched for EM counterparts to gravitational waves as well as neutrinos. In addition to ZTF, I worked on WINTER, a new near-infrared telescope for which I jointly built the pipeline. I also developed tdescore, a powerful ML-based algorithm to discover Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) in ZTF survey data. Since Fall 2024, I've been a Neil Gehrels Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at JSI. I'm still working on MMA with ZTF and WINTER. I've also been focused on using tdescore to discover new TDEs in real-time with ZTF and LSST.
Latest Papers
tdescore
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Zenodo
Author(s): Robert Stein
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein
A fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a type Ic-BL supernova
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Nature Astronomy
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein
The case of AT2022wtn: a Tidal Disruption Event in an interacting galaxy
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arXiv
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein
Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica
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arXiv
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein
WINTER on S250206dm: A Near-infrared Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-wave Event
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein
The first systematically identified repeating partial tidal disruption event
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Astrophysical Journal
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein
Low-luminosity Type IIP Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe. I. Luminosity Function, Volumetric Rate
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein