Hanindyo Kuncarayakti
Docent (Adjunct Professor), D.Sc.
Areas of expertise
astronomy; observational astrophysics; supernovae; transients; stellar populations; instrumentation
Biography
I completed my PhD at the University of Tokyo in 2013. Afterwards, I briefly worked at Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo, before moving to Universidad de Chile as a FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellow. I moved to Finland in late 2016 for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA), and from 2019 continued as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Turku. I am now a senior research fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and FINCA.
Publications
- Giant outbursts of clumpy material preceding Type II supernova 2024qiw (2026)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nagao, T.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Maeda, K.; Mattila, S.; Kotak, R.; Killestein, T.; Humina, C.; Steeghs, D.; Jarvis, D.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- HOLISMOKES XIX: SN 2025wny at z = 2, the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova (2026)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Taubenberger, Stefan; Acebron, Ana; Cañameras, Raoul; Chen, Ting-Wan; Galan, Aymeric; Grillo, Claudio; Melo, Alejandra; Schuldt, Stefan; Schweinfurth, Allan G.; Suyu, Sherry H.; Aldering, Greg; Aryan, Amar; Lee, Yu-Hsing; Mamuzic, Elias; Millon, Martin; Reynolds, Thomas M.; Sergeyev, Alexey V.; Asfandiyarov, Ildar M.; Basa, Stéphane; Blondin, Stéphane; Burkhonov, Otabek A.; Christensen, Lise; Courbin, Frederic; Ehgamberdiev, Shuhrat A.; Killestein, Tom L.; Mattila, Seppo; Shaymanov, Asadulla M.; Shu, Yiping; Xu, Dong; Yang, Sheng; Gruen, Daniel; Pierel, Justin D. R.; Storfer, Christopher J.; Tran, Kim-Vy; Wong, Kenneth C.; Becerra, Rosa L.; Dornic, Damien; Ducoin, Jean-Grégoire; Globus, Noémie; Gutiérrez, Claudia P.; Jiang, Ji-an; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; López-Cámara, Diego; Lundqvist, Peter; Magnani, Francesco; Méndez Moreno, Enrique; Schneider, Benjamin; Vogl, Christian
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Infrared observations reveal the reprocessing envelope in the tidal disruption event AT 2019azh (2026)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Reynolds, Thomas M.; Thomsen, Lars; Mattila, Seppo; Nagao, Takashi; Anderson, Joseph P.; Bauer, Franz E.; Charalampopoulos, Panos; Dai, Lixin; Faris, Sara; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Gutiérrez, Claudia P.; Kuncarayakti, Hanin; Inserra, Cosimo; Kankare, Erkki; Kravtsov, Timo; Moldon, Javier; Moran, Shane; Pérez Torres, Miguel; Wiseman, Phil; van Velzen, Sjoert
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium XII. SN 2024acyl: A fast, linearly declining Type Ibn supernova with early flash-ionisation features (2026)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Cai, Y. -Z.; Pastorello, A.; Maeda, K.; Zhao, J. -W.; Wang, Z. -Y.; Peng, Z. -H.; Reguitti, A.; Tartaglia, L.; Filippenko, A. V.; Pan, Y.; Valerin, G.; Kumar, B.; Wang, Z.; Fraser, M.; Anderson, J. P.; Benetti, S.; Bose, S.; Brink, T. G.; Cappellaro, E.; Chen, T. -W.; Chen, X. -L.; Elias-rosa, N.; Esamdin, A.; Gal-yam, A.; Gonzalez-banuelos, M.; Gromadzki, M.; Gutierrez, C. P.; Inserra, C.; Iskandar, A.; Kangas, T.; Kankare, E.; Kravtsov, T.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Li, L. -P.; Liu, C. -X.; Liu, X. -K.; Lundqvist, P.; Matilainen, K.; Mattila, S.; Moran, S.; Muller-bravo, T. E.; Nagao, T.; Petrushevska, T.; Pignata, G.; Salmaso, I.; Smartt, S. J.; Sollerman, J.; Srivastav, S.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Wang, L. -T.; Yan, S. -Y.; Yang, Y.; Yang, Y. -P.; Zheng, W.; Zou, X. -Z.; Chen, L. -Y.; Du, X. -L.; Fang, Q. -L.; Fiore, A.; Ragosta, F.; Zha, S.; Zhang, J. -J.; Liu, X. W.; Bai, J. M.; Wang, B.; Wang, X. F.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Peculiar SN Ic 2022esa: An explosion of a massive Wolf–Rayet star in a binary as a precursor to a BH–BH binary? (2026)
- Publications- Astronomical Society of Japan
Maeda, Keiichi; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Nagao, Takashi; Kawabata, Miho; Taguchi, Kenta; Uno, Kohki; De, Kishalay
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- Photometry and Spectroscopy of SN 2024pxl: A Luminosity Link among Type Iax Supernovae (2026) Singh, Mridweeka; Kwok, Lindsey A.; Jha, Saurabh W.; Dastidar, R.; Larison, Conor; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Andrews, Jennifer E.; Andrews, Moira; Anupama, G. C.; Arunachalam, Prasiddha; Auchettl, Katie; Banhidi, Dominik; Barna, Barnabas; Bostroem, K. Azalee; Brink, Thomas G.; Cartier, Regis; Chen, Ping; Christy, Collin T.; Coulter, David A.; Covarrubias, Sofia; Davis, Kyle W.; Dickinson, Connor B.; Dong, Yize; Farah, Joseph; Flors, Andreas; Foley, Ryan J.; Franz, Noah; Fremling, Christoffer; Galbany, Lluis; Gangopadhyay, Anjasha; Garg, Aarna; Gates, Elinor L.; Graur, Or; Gordon, Alexa C.; Hiramatsu, Daichi; Hoang, Emily; Howell, D. Andrew; Hsu, Brian; Johansson, Joel; Joshi, Arti; Kahinga, Lordrick A.; Kaur, Ravjit; Kumar, Sahana; Kumnurdmanee, Piramon; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; LeBaron, Natalie; Lidman, C.; Liu, Chang; Maeda, Keiichi; Maguire, Kate; Martin, Bailey; McCully, Curtis; Mehta, Darshana; Menotti, Luca M.; Metevier, Anne J.; Miller, A. A.; Misra, Kuntal; Murphey, C. Tanner; Newsome, Megan; Padilla Gonzalez, Estefania; Patra, Kishore C.; Pearson, Jeniveve; Piro, Anthony L.; Polin, Abigail; Ravi, Aravind P.; Rest, Armin; Rehemtulla, Nabeel; Meza Retamal, Nicolas; Robinson, O. M.; Rojas-Bravo, Cesar; Sahu, Devendra K.; Sand, David J.; Schmidt, Brian P.; Schulze, Steve; Schwab, Michaela; Shrestha, Manisha; Siebert, Matthew R.; Simha, Sunil; Smith, Nathan; Sollerman, Jesper; Srivastav, Shubham; Subrayan, Bhagya M.; Szalai, Tamas; Taggart, Kirsty; Teja, Rishabh Singh; Terwel, Jacco H.; Tinyanont, Samaporn; Valenti, Stefano; Vinko, Jozsef; Westerling, Aya L.; Wheeler, J. Craig; Yang, Yi; Zheng, Weikang
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- SOXS spectrograph instrument control software (2026)
- Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
Ricci, Davide; Salasnich, Bernardo; Baruffolo, Andrea; Achrén, Jani; Aliverti, Matteo; Araiza-Durán, José A.; Arcavi, Iair; Asquini, Laura; Battaini, Federico; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Bichkovsky, Alex; Brucalassi, Anna; Bruch, Rachel; Cabona, Lorenzo; Campana, Sergio; Capasso, Giulio; Cappellaro, Enrico; Claudi, Riccardo; Colapietro, Mirko; Cosentino, Rosario; D’Alessio, Francesco; D’Avanzo, Paolo; D’Orsi, Sergio; Valle, Massimo Della; Di Benedetto, Rosario; Di Filippo, Simone; Gal‑Yam, Avishay; Genoni, Matteo; Díaz, Marcos Hernandez; Hershko, Ofir; Kotilainen, Jari; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Landoni, Marco; Li Causi, Gianluca; Marty, Laurent; Mattila, Seppo; Munari, Matteo; Oggioni, Luca; Ventura, Hector Pérez; Pariani, Giorgio; Pignata, Giuliano; Santhakumari, Kalyan Kumar Radhakrishnan; Smartt, Stephen; Rappaport, Michael; Riva, Marco; Rubin, Adam; Savarese, Salvatore; Schipani, Pietro; Scuderi, Salvatore; Stritzinger, Maximilian; Vitali, Fabrizio; Young, David; Zanmar Sanchez, Ricardo; Zins, Gerard
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- The hydrogen-free circumstellar interaction in the Type Ib supernova 2021efd: A clue to the mechanism of the helium-layer stripping (2026)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
Pyykkinen, N.; Nagao, T.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Kangas, T.; Maeda, K.; Chen, P.; Sollerman, J.; Burns, C.; Bose, S.; Folatelli, G.; Ferrari, L.; Morrell, N.; Reguitti, A.; Salmaso, I.; Mattila, S.; Gal-Yam, A.; Fremling, C.; Anand, S.; Kasliwal, M. M.; Gutierrez, C. P.; Galbany, L.; Hoogendam, W.; Schulze, S.; Ashall, C.; Medler, K.; Pfeffer, C. M.; Lundqvist, P.; Rusholme, B.; Adler, J.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- WFST Supernovae in the First Year. II. SN 2024aedt: Systematical Study of a Transitional Type Ia Supernova (2026) Meng, Dezheng; Jiang, Ji-an; Kong, Xu; Xu, Zelin; Maeda, Keiichi; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Galbany, Lluis; Jha, Saurabh W.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Yoachim, Peter; Wu, Weiyu; Liu, Zhengyan; Zhao, Junhan; Connolly, Andrew J.; Jia, Ziqing; Hu, Lei; Ding, Weiyu; Fan, Lulu; Li, Feng; Liang, Ming; Tang, Jinlong; Wan, Zhen; Wang, Hairen; Wang, Jian; Xue, Yongquan; Zhang, Hongfei; Zhao, Wen; Zheng, Xianzhong; Zhu, Qingfeng
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
- WFST Supernovae in the First Year. I. Statistical Study of 16 Early-phase Type Ia Supernovae from the Pilot Survey (2026)
- Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Wu, Weiyu; Jiang, Ji-an; Xu, Zelin; Meng, Dezheng; Maeda, Keiichi; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Galbany, Lluís; Jha, Saurabh W.; Ivezić, Željko; Yoachim, Peter; Liu, Zhengyan; Zhao, Junhan; Wang, Tinggui; Kong, Xu; Connolly, Andrew J.; Jia, Ziqing; Hu, Lei; Fan, Lulu; Jiang, Ning; Li, Feng; Liang, Ming; Tang, Jinlong; Wan, Zhen; Wang, Hairen; Wang, Jian; Xue, Yongquan; Zhang, Hongfei; Zhao, Wen; Zheng, Xianzhong; Zhu, Qingfeng
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
