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About Robert Quimby
- 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 SN 2005ap, 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.
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