h-index = 43
Selected publications:
H. Kuncarayakti et al. 2013a/b, Astronomical Journal, 146, 30/31, Integral field spectroscopy of supernova explosion sites: constraining mass and metallicity of the progenitors. Updated in H. Kuncarayakti et al. 2018, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 613, 35, Constraints on core-collapse supernova progenitors from explosion site integral field spectroscopy.
The first two papers were the first publications concerning the utilization of integral field spectroscopy in statistical studies of stellar populations associated with supernovae; the subsequent update in 2018 reinforced the conclusions with a sample four times larger and including more supernova subclasses.
H. Kuncarayakti et al. 2015, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 579, 95, Nebular phase observations of the Type-Ib supernova iPTF13bvn favour a binary progenitor.
Constraining the origin and core properties of the first helium-rich (type-Ib) supernova with progenitor detection, by using late-time spectroscopy that enables probing the inner core of the exploding star.
H. Kuncarayakti et al. 2018, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 854, 14, SN 2017dio: A Type-Ic Supernova Exploding in a Hydrogen-rich Circumstellar Medium.
Discovery of an one-of-a-kind stripped supernova devoid of hydrogen and helium surrounded by a hydrogen-rich circumstellar medium, challenging stellar evolution theory that the progenitor system had to have the time of mass loss and explosion synchronized.
H. Kuncarayakti et al. 2016. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 593, A78. Unresolved versus resolved: testing the validity of young simple stellar population models with VLT/MUSE observations of NGC 3603.
The paper presents a test of comparing resolved and unresolved stellar population, which is critical to the validity of simple stellar population (SSP) models that are widely used as bilding blocks in galaxy study.