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Francisco Forster Burón

Profesor

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

astronomy; astroinformatics; supernova; stellar evolution; robotic astronomy; education

Astrophysics, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Reino Unido, 2009
Astronomy, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2004
Engineering Sciences, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2004

Postdoctoral fellow Full Time

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2009 - 2010
Fondecyt postdoctoral fellow Full Time

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2010 - 2013
Scientist Full Time

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

2013 - A la fecha
Associate Researcher Other

Instituto Milenio de Astrofísica

Santiago, Chile

2017 - A la fecha

I have supervised or I am supervising the following students:

Astronomy:
Francisca Chabour, 2021 (B.Sc.)
Jorge Araya, 2021 (B.Sc.)
Simón Sanfeliú, 2021 (B.Sc.)
Juanita Antilén, 2020 (M.Sc.)
Javier Silva, 2020 (B.Sc.)
Melissa Fuentealba, 2020 (B.Sc.)
Alex Barrera, 2020 (B.Sc.)
Jorge Martínez, 2015-2018 (Ph.D.) postdoc at U. Berkeley since 2018
Arturo Lira, 2018 (M.Sc)
Daniela Barrientos, 2017 (M.Sc)
José Peña, 2014-2020 (Ph.D., co-supervisor)
Gustavo Medina, 2014-2016 (M.Sc., co-supervisor)
Sebastián Marino, 2013 (B.Sc.)
Thomas de Jaeger, 2012 (Ph.D., co-supervisor)
Sebastián Marchii, 2012 (B.Sc.)
Paloma Pérez, 2011 (B.Sc.)
Fernando Rivas, 2010 (B.Sc.)
César Parra, 2010 (B.Sc.)
Vachail Salinas, 2010 (B.Sc.)
Nicolás López, 2009 (B.Sc.)

Mathematical Engineering:
Emir Chacra, 2019 (B.Sc.)
Andrés Riveros, 2018 (B.Sc.)
Paul Silva, 2016 (B.Sc.)
Daniela Vega, 2016 (M.Sc.)
David Hasson, 2015 (B.Sc.)
Andrés Cristi, 2015 (B.Sc.)

Computer Science:
Francisco Muñoz, 2020 (M.Sc.)
Javier Morales, 2020 (M.Sc.)
Eduardo Araos, 2020 (M.Sc.)
Francisco Muñoz, 2018 (B.Sc.)
Paloma Pérez, 2018 (B.Sc.)
Ariel Barraza, 2016 (B.Sc.)
Alonso González, 2009 (B.Sc.)

Electrical Engineering:
Oscar Pimentel, 2020-present (M.Sc. co-supervisor)
Pablo Montero, 2020-present (M.Sc. co-supervisor)
Esteban Reyes, 2018-present (M.Sc. co-supervisor)
Rodrigo Carrasco, 2017-2019 (M.Sc. co-supervisor)
Ignacio Reyes, 2015-2017 (M.Sc., co-supervisor)
Pablo Huentelemu, 2014-2016, (M.Sc., co-supervisor)

Visiting students:
Amandine Gerstenberg, 2019 (Université de Lille, France)
Adrien Baudier, 2017, (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)

Given several talks at schools and public seminars.


Alert Classification for the ALeRCE Broker System: The Light Curve Classifier Article The Astronomical Journal (2021)
The Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) Alert Broker Article The Astronomical Journal (2021)
The Early Discovery of SN 2017ahn: Signatures of Persistent Interaction in a Fast-declining Type II Supernova Article The Astrophysical Journal (2021)
Asteroids' Size Distribution and Colors from HITS Show affiliations Article The Astronomical Journal (2020)
Design and Operation of the ATLAS Transient Science Server Article PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (2020)
Luminous Type II supernovae for their low expansion velocities Article MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2020)
Optical and Near-infrared Observations of the Nearby SN Ia 2017cbv Article The Astrophysical Journal (2020)
Progenitor properties of type II supernovae: fitting to hydrodynamical models using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods Article ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS (2020)
Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey Article MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2020)
Carnegie Supernova Project-II=> The Near-infrared Spectroscopy Program Hsiao, EY; Phiilips, MM; Marion, GH; Kirshner, RP; Morrell, N; Sand, DJ; Burns, CR; Contreras, C; Hoeflich, P; Stritzinger, MD; Valenti, S; Anderson, JP; Ashall, C; Baltay, C; Baron, E; Banerjee, DPK; Davis, S; Diamond, TR; Folatelli, G; Freedman, WL; Forster, F; Galbany, L; Gall, C; Gonzalez-Gaitan, S; Goobar, A; Hamuy, M; Holmbo, S; Kasliwal, MM; Krisciunas, K; Kumar, S; Lidman, C; Lu, J; Nugent, PE; Perlmutter, S; Persson, SE; Piro, AL; Rabinowitz, D; Roth, M; Ryder, SD; Schmidt, BP; Shahbandeh, M; Suntzeff, NB; Taddia, F; Uddin, S; Wang, L Article Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2019)
Deep Learning for Image Sequence Classification of Astronomical Events Carrasco-Davis, Rodrigo; Estevez, Pablo A.; Donoso, Cristobal Article ISI SCOPUS PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC (2019)
Enabling real-time multi-messenger astrophysics discoveries with deep learning Huerta, E. A.; Allen, Gabrielle; Andreoni, Igor; Antelis, Javier M.; Bachelet, Etienne; Berriman, G. Bruce; Bianco, Federica B.; Biswas, Rahul; Carrasco Kind, Matias; Chard, Kyle; Cho, Minsik; Cowperthwaite, Philip S.; Etienne, Zachariah B.; Fishbach, May Article Nature Reviews Physics (2019)
Fast Algorithms for Slow Moving Asteroids=> Constraints on the Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects Whidden, PJ; Kalmbach, JB; Connolly, AJ; Jones, RL; Smotherman, H; Bektesevic, D; Slater, C; Becker, AC; Ivezic, Z; Juric, M; Bolin, B; Moeyens, J; Forster, F; Golkhou, VZ Article Astronomical Journal (2019)
Introducing the Search for Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies (SIBLING) Survey Article The Astrophysical Journal (2019)
Seeing Double: ASASSN-18bt Exhibits a Two-component Rise in the Early-time K2 Light Shappee, BJ; Holoien, TWS; Drout, MR; Stritzinger, MD; Kochanek, CS; Stanek, KZ; Narayan, G.; Brown, JS; Bose S.; Bersier D.; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2019)
A fast-evolving luminous transient discovered by K2/Kepler Garnavich, PM; Khatami, D; Kasen, D; Tucker, BE; Olling, RP; Margheim S.; James, D; Smith, RC Article ISI SCOPUS NATURE ASTRONOMY (2018)
Asteroids in the High Cadence Transient Survey Peña, J.; Fuentes, C.; Förster, F.; Maureira, J. C.; San Martín, J.; Littín, J.; Huijse, P.; Cabrera-Vives, G.; Estévez, P. A.; Galbany, L.; González-Gaitán, S.; Martínez, J.; de Jaeger, Th.; Hamuy, M. Article ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL (2018)
Discovery of Distant RR Lyrae Stars in the Milky Way Using DECam Medina, Gustavo E.; Muñoz, Ricardo R.; Vivas, A. Katherina; Carlin, Jeffrey L.; Förster, Francisco; Martínez, Jorge; Galbany, Lluís; González-Gaitán, Santiago; Hamuy, Mario; de Jaeger, Thomas; Maureira, Juan Carlos; San Martín, Jaime Article ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2018)
Robust Period Estimation Using Mutual Information for Multiband Light Curves in the Synoptic Survey Era Huijse, Pablo; Estévez, Pablo A.; Förster, Francisco; Daniel, Scott F.; Connolly, Andrew J.; Protopapas, Pavlos; Carrasco, Rodrigo; Príncipe, José C. Article ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES (2018)
The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most type II supernovae Förster, F.; Moriya, T. J.; Maureira, J. C.; Anderson, J. P.; Blinnikov, S.; Bufano, F.; Cabrera-Vives, G.; Clocchiatti, A.; de Jaeger, T.; Estévez, P. A.; Galbany, L.; González-Gaitán, S.; Gräfener, G.; Hamuy, M.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Huentelemu P., Huijse; P., Kuncarayakti; H., Martínez; J., Medina; G., Olivares E.; F., Pignata; G., Razza; A., Reyes; I., San Martín; J., Smith; R. C., Vera; E., Vivas; A. K., de Ugarte Postigo; A., Yoon; S.-C., Ashall; C., Fraser; M., Gal-Yam; A., Kankare; E., Le Guillou; L., Mazzali P.A.; Walton, N. A.; Young, D. R. Article NATURE ASTRONOMY (2018)
The High Cadence Transit Survey (HiTS)=> Compilation and Characterization of Light-curve Catalogs Martínez-Palomera, Jorge; Förster, Francisco; Protopapas, Pavlos; Maureira, Juan Carlos; Lira, Paulina; Cabrera-Vives, Guillermo; Huijse, Pablo; Galbany, Lluis; de Jaeger, Thomas; González-Gaitán, Santiago; Medina, Gustavo; Pignata, Giuliano; San Martín, Jaime; Hamuy, Mario; Muñoz, Ricardo R. Article The Astronomical Journal (2018)
Type IIP supernova light curves affected by the acceleration of red supergiant winds Moriya, TJ; Forster, F; Yoon, SC; Grafener, G; Blinnikov, SI Article MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2018)
A new, faint population of X-ray transients Bauer, Franz E.; Treister, Ezequiel; Schawinski, Kevin; Schulze, Steve; Luo, Bin; Alexander, David M.; Brandt, William N.; Comastri, Andrea; Maeda, Keiichi; Nomoto, Ken'ichi; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2017)
Continuum Foreground Polarization and Na i Absorption in Type Ia SNe Zelaya, P.; Clocchiatti, A.; Baade, D.; Höflich, P.; Maund, J.; Patat, F.; Quinn, J. R.; Reilly, E.; Wang, L.; Wheeler, J. C.; Förster, F.; González-Gaitán, S. Article Astrophysical Journal (2017)
Deep-HiTS=> Rotation Invariant Convolutional Neural Network for Transient Detection Cabrera-Vives, Guillermo; Reyes, Ignacio; Förster, Francisco; Estévez, Pablo A.; Maureira, Juan-Carlos Article Astrophysical Journal (2017)
Serendipitous Discovery of RR Lyrae Stars in the Leo V Ultra-faint Galaxy Medina G.E., Muñoz R.R.; Vivas A.K., Förster F.; Carlin J.L., Martinez J.; Galbany L., González-Gaitán S.; Hamuy M., Jaeger T.D.; Maureira J.C., Martín J.S. Article ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2017)
The Emergence of the Infrared Transient VVV-WIT-06 Minniti, D; Saito, RK; Forster, F; Pignata, G; Ivanov, VD; Lucas, PW; Beamin, JC; Borissova, J; Catelan, M; Gonzalez, OA; Hempel, M; Hsiao, E; Kurtev, R; Majaess, D; Masetti, N; Morrell, NI; Phillips, MM; Pullen, JB; Rejkuba, M; Smith, L; Surot, F; Valenti, E; Zoccali, M Article Astrophysical Journal Letters (2017)
Characterizing the environments of supernovae with MUSE Galbany, L.; Anderson, JP; Rosales-Ortega, FF; Kuncarayakti, H.; Kruhler, T; Sanchez, SF; Falcon Barroso J.; Perez. E; Maureira, JC; Hamuy, M.; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2016)
MUSE REVEALS A RECENT MERGER IN THE POST-STARBURST HOST GALAXY OF THE TDE ASASSN-14li Prieto, J. L.; Krühler, T.; Anderson, J. P.; Galbany, L.; Kochanek, C. S.; Aquino, E.; Brown, J. S.; Dong, Subo; Förster, F.; Holoien, T. W.-S.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Maureira, J. C.; Rosales-Ortega, F. F.; Sánchez, S. F.; Shappee, B. J.; Stanek, K. Z. Article ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS (2016)
THE HIGH CADENCE TRANSIENT SURVEY (HITS). I. SURVEY DESIGN AND SUPERNOVA SHOCK BREAKOUT CONSTRAINTS Förster, F.; Maureira, J. C.; Martín, J. San; Hamuy, M.; Martínez, J.; Huijse, P.; Cabrera, G.; Galbany, L.; Jaeger, Th. de; González?Gaitán, S.; Anderson, J. P.; Kunkarayakti, H.; Pignata, G.; Bufano, F.; Littín, J.; Olivares, F.; Medina, G.; Smith, R. C.; Vivas, A. K.; Estévez, P. A.; Muñoz, R.; Vera, E. Article ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2016)
Comprehensive observations of the bright and energetic Type lax SN 2012Z: Interpretation as a Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf explosion Stritzinger, M. D.; Valenti, S; Hoeflich P.; Baron, E; Phillips, M. M.; Taddia, F; Foley, R. J.; Hsiao, E. Y.; McCully, C; Pandya V.; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS (2015)
On the environments of Type Ia supernovae within host galaxies Anderson, JP; James, PA; González Gaitán S.; Habergham, SM; Hamuy, M.; Lyman, JD Article ISI MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2015)
SEARCHING FOR LIGHT ECHOES DUE TO CIRCUMSTELLAR MATTER IN SNe Ia SPECTRA Marino, S; González Gaitán S.; Folatelli, G; Hamuy, M.; Hsiao, E Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal (2015)
SN 2011A: A LOW-LUMINOSITY INTERACTING TRANSIENT WITH A DOUBLE PLATEAU AND STRONG SODIUM ABSORPTION de Jaeger, T.; Anderson, JP; Pignata, G.; Hamuy, M.; Kankare, E.; Stritzinger, MD; Benetti, S; Bufano, F.; Elias-Rosa, N; Folatelli, G; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal (2015)
The rise-time of Type II supernovae González Gaitán S.; Tominaga, N; Molina, J.; Galbany, L.; Bufano, F.; Anderson, JP; Gutierrez C.; Pignata, G.; Bersten, M; Howell, DA; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)
The state of Pluto's atmosphere in 2012-2013 Bosh, AS; Person, MJ; Levine, SE; Zuluaga, CA; Zangari, AM; Gulbis, AAS; Schaefer, GH; Dunham, EW; Babcock, BA; Davis, AB; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Icarus (2015)
CHARACTERIZING THE V-BAND LIGHT-CURVES OF HYDROGEN-RICH TYPE II SUPERNOVAE Anderson, JP; González Gaitán S.; Hamuy, M.; Stritzinger, MD; Olivares, EF; PHILLIPS, MM; Schulze, S; Antezana, R.; Bolt, L.; Campillay, A; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2014)
DEFINING PHOTOMETRIC PECULIAR TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE González Gaitán S.; Hsiao, EY; Pignata, G.; Bufano, F.; Galbany, L.; Folatelli, G; PHILLIPS, MM; Hamuy, M.; Anderson, JP; de Jaeger, T. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2014)
PERSISTENT C II ABSORPTION IN THE NORMAL TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA 2002fk Cartier, R; Hamuy, M.; Pignata, G.; Zelaya, P; Folatelli, G; PHILLIPS, MM; Morrell, N; Krisciunas K.; SUNTZEFF, NB; Clocchiatti, A.; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2014)
SN 2009N: linking normal and subluminous Type II-P SNe Takáts K.; Elias-Rosa, N; Pastorello, A; Pignata, G.; Paillas, E; Zampieri, L; Anderson, JP; Vinkó J.; Benetti, S; Botticella, MT; et al. Article ISI MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2014)
SN 2011hs: a fast and faint Type IIb supernova from a supergiant progenitor Bufano, F.; Pignata, G.; Bersten, M; Mazzali, PA; Ryder, SD; Margutti, R; Milisavljevic, D; Morelli L.; Benetti, S; Cappellaro, E; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (2014)
SUPERNOVA 2010as: THE LOWEST-VELOCITY MEMBER OF A FAMILY OF FLAT-VELOCITY TYPE IIb SUPERNOVAE Folatelli, G; Bersten, MC; Kuncarayakti, H.; Estay, FO; Anderson, JP; Holmbo S.; Maeda, K; Morrell, N; Nomoto, K; Pignata, G.; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2014)
A statistical analysis of circumstellar material in Type Ia supernovae Maguire, K; Sullivan M.; Patat, F; Gal-Yam, A; Hook, IM; Dhawan S.; Howell, DA; Mazzali, P; Nugent, PE; Podsiadlowski P.; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2013)
ON THE LIRA LAW AND THE NATURE OF EXTINCTION TOWARD TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE González Gaitán S.; Folatelli, G; Morrell, N Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal (2013)
SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS OF SN 2012fr: A LUMINOUS, NORMAL TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA WITH EARLY HIGH-VELOCITY FEATURES AND A LATE VELOCITY PLATEAU Childress, MJ; Scalzo, RA; Sim, SA; Tucker, BE; Yuan F.; Schmidt, BP; Cenko, SB; Silverman, JM; Contreras C.; Hsiao, EY; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal (2013)
SPECTROSCOPY OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE BY THE CARNEGIE SUPERNOVA PROJECT Folatelli, G; Morrell, N; PHILLIPS, MM; Hsiao, E; Campillay, A; Contreras C.; Castellon, S; Hamuy, M.; Krzeminski W.; Roth, M; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2013)
EVIDENCE FOR ASYMMETRIC DISTRIBUTION OF CIRCUMSTELLAR MATERIAL AROUND TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE González Gaitán S.; Anderson, J; Marchi S.; Gutierrez C.; Hamuy, M.; Pignata, G.; Cartier, R Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal Letters (2012)
A study of the color diversity around maximum light in Type Ia supernovae Cartier, R; Coppi, P.; Hamuy, M.; Maeda, K; Pignata, G.; Folatelli, G Article ISI SCOPUS Astronomy and Astrophysics (2011)
SN 2009bb: A PECULIAR BROAD-LINED TYPE Ic SUPERNOVA Pignata, G.; Anderson, J. P.; Folatelli, G; Hamuy, M.; Maza, J; Stritzinger, M; Phillips, M. M.; Morrell, N; Boldt L.; Campillay, A; et al. Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal (2011)
Scheduling in Targeted Transient Surveys and a New Telescope for CHASE Kubánek, Petr Article SCOPUS Advances in Astronomy (2010)
SIMPLIFIED HYDROSTATIC CARBON BURNING IN WHITE DWARF INTERIORS Lesaffre P.; Podsiadlowski P. Article ISI SCOPUS Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series (2010)
Morphological analysis of the centimeter-wave continuum in the dark cloud LDN 1622 Casassus, S.; Cabrera, GF; Pearson, TJ; Readhead, ACS; Dickinson, C. Article ISI SCOPUS ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (2006)


Clustering of Astronomical Transient Candidates Using Deep Variational Embedding Huijsey P. ConferencePaper SCOPUS Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2018)
Enhanced Rotational Invariant Convolutional Neural Network for Supernovae Detection ConferencePaper SCOPUS Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2018)
Correntropy based filtering for supernova detection ConferencePaper SCOPUS Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2016)
Supernovae detection by using convolutional neural networks ConferencePaper SCOPUS Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (2016)
Discriminating Variable Star Candidates in Large Image Databases from the HiTS Survey Using NMF Huijse, P.; Berrocal, E ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS Procedia Computer Science (2015)
The CHilean automatic supernova search Hamuy, M.; Pignata, G.; Maza, J; Clocchiatti, A.; Anderson, J; Bersten, M; Folatelli, G; Gutierrez C.; Quinn, J.; Stritzinger, M; et al. ConferencePaper SCOPUS Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, Supplementi - Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society, Supplement (2012)
Hydrostatic 12C burning in CO WDs: The simmering phase of SNe Ia progenitors FÃ¶rster F.; Lesaffre P.; Podsiadlowski P. ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union (2011)
The CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE) Pignata, G.; Maza, J; Antezana, R.; Cartier, R; Folatelli, G; González L.; Gonzalez P.; Hamuy, M.; Iturra, D; Lopez, P; et al. ConferencePaper SOLARPACES 2020 - 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER AND CHEMICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS (2009)


UNDERSTANDING SUPERNOVA PROGENITORS USING NEXT GENERATION SYNOPTIC SURVEYS FONDECYT (11130228) Proyecto 2013-2017 Inv. Responsable
UNDERSTANDING SUPERNOVA PROGENITORS=> CONNECTING THEORY AND OBSERVATIONS WITH A ROBOTIC TELESCOPE FONDECYT (3110042) Proyecto 2010-2013 Inv. Responsable
Instalación de telescopio robótico para búsqueda de supernovas Núcleo Milenio de Estudios de Supernova (P10-064-F) Proyecto 2009-2011 Personal técnico y/o de apoyo
A STUDY OF CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE. FONDECYT (1060808) Proyecto 2006-2010 Personal técnico y/o de apoyo
RADIO EMISSION MECHANISMS IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM. FONDECYT (1030805) Proyecto 2003-2006 Personal técnico y/o de apoyo