Christian Nathaniel Setzer
About me
Since Fall of 2017 I have been a PhD student in Observational Cosmology at Stockholm University under the supervision of Hiranya Peiris and Jens Jasche. Prior to this, I completed my Master of Science degree in Astronomy also from Stockholm University in June 2017 with the thesis, "Linear Structure Formation of Ghost-Free Massive Bigravity". My undergraduate was spent in the United States where I completed three separate Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics in May 2015. This was at Iowa State University where I was a student from Fall 2009. I grew up in the historical German colony of Amana in the beautiful Iowa river valley of Eastern Iowa.
I am part of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) and the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics. I am interested in observational probes of cosmology, such as compact binary mergers which emit in both electromagnetic and gravitational waves. Additionally, I have interest in researching high performance computing, computational methods for physics, and the cosmology of modified gravity theories. I am currently researching kilonovae, the optical counterpart to a neutron star-neutron star or neutron star-blackhole merger event. I am investigating their use as standard sirens and our ability to detect them with next-generation telescopes like the LSST.
Please feel free to reach out and contact me, I am eager to discuss any of my research interests or cosmology in general!
You can reach me at:
cosmosetzer at gmail dot com
My up-to-date research publications can be found on the arXiv.
A list updated as of (Jan. 2019):
[1] Serendipitous Discoveries of Kilonovae in the LSST Main Survey: Maximising Detections of Sub-Threshold Gravitational Wave Events
Christian N. Setzer, Rahul Biswas, Hiranya V. Peiris, Stephan Rosswog, Oleg Korobkin, Ryan T. Wollaeger (The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
[2] Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey
Michelle Lochner, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan, Nicolas Regnault, Philippe Gris, Rachel Mandelbaum, Eric Gawiser, Husni Almoubayyed, Christian N. Setzer, Simon Huber, Melissa L. Graham, Renée Hložek, Rahul Biswas, Tim Eifler, Daniel Rothchild, Tarek Allam Jr, Jonathan Blazek, Chihway Chang, Thomas Collett, Ariel Goobar, Isobel M. Hook, Mike Jarvis, Saurabh W. Jha, Alex G. Kim, Phil Marshall, Jason D. McEwen, Marc Moniez, Jeffrey A. Newman, Hiranya V. Peiris, Tanja Petrushevska, Jason Rhodes, Ignacio Sevilla-Noarbe, Anže Slosar, Sherry H. Suyu, J. Anthony Tyson, Peter Yoachim (for the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration)
[3] The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC): Selection of a performance metric for classification probabilities balancing diverse science goals
Alex Malz, Renée Hložek, Tarek Allam Jr, Anita Bahmanyar, Rahul Biswas, Mi Dai, Lluís Galbany, Emille Ishida, Saurabh Jha, David Jones, Rick Kessler, Michelle Lochner, Ashish Mahabal, Kaisey Mandel, Rafael Martínez-Galarza, Jason McEwen, Daniel Muthukrishna,Gautham Narayan, Hiranya Peiris, Christina Peters, Christian Setzer, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, The LSST Transients, Variable Stars Science Collaboration
[4] The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC): Data set
The PLAsTiCC team, Tarek Allam Jr., Anita Bahmanyar, Rahul Biswas, Mi Dai, Lluís Galbany, Renée Hložek, Emille E. O. Ishida, Saurabh W. Jha, David O. Jones, Richard Kessler, Michelle Lochner, Ashish A. Mahabal, Alex I. Malz, Kaisey S. Mandel, Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza, Jason D. McEwen, Daniel Muthukrishna, Gautham Narayan, Hiranya Peiris, Christina M. Peters, Kara Ponder, Christian N. Setzer, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, The LSST Transients, Variable Stars Science Collaboration