José María Maza Sancho, Chilean astrophysicist (Valparaíso 18 January 1948 –

Authored over 120 scientific works (with 9,200 citations by Publons)

Discovered a new component of dark energy and a technique for measuring the distances using type I supernovae

With M. Hamuy, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzoff & P. Avilés. SN1992bc and SN1992bo: Evidence for intrinsic differences in type1A supernova luminosities. Astrophys. J. 424 (1994)

His work in astronomy / astrophysics enabled the discoveries that lead to 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

Papers in Nature

With P.G. Martin & J.R.P. Angel. The polarisation of nova Valpeculae. Nature 265(5592):314-5, 1977

With M. Hamuy, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzeff, L.E. Gonzalez, M. Roth et al. An asymptotic giant branch star in the progenitor system of a type Ia supernova. Nature 424 (6949):651-4, 2003

DISCOVERED / OBSERVED

More than 120 supernovae,

More than 900 quasars

More than 150 Seyfert galaxies

More than 500 galaxies with intensive stellar formation

A great number of carbon stars

With M. Hamuy, J.S. Deng, P.A. Mazzali, N.I. Morrell, M.M. Phillips et al. Supernova 2003bg: the first type IIb Hypernova. Astrophys. J. 703(2):1612-23, 2009

With N.D.Morgan, M.D. Gregg, L. Wisotzki, R. Becker, P.L. Schechter & R.L. White. CTQ327: a new gravitational lens. Astrophys. J. 126(2):696-705, 2003

With J.N. Winn, J.N. Hewitt, A.R. Patnaik, P.L. Schechter, R.A, Schommer, S. Lopez & S. Wachter. A nearly symmetric double-image gravitational lens. Astron. J. 121(3):1223-31, 2001

With M.T. Ruiz, P.M. Rojo & G. Garay. CE315: a new interacting double-degenerate binary star. Astrophys. J. 552(2):679-84, 2001

With N.D. Morgan, P.L. Schechter, J.N. Winn & A. Dressler. CTQ144: a new gravitational lens. Astron. J. 118(4):1444-9, 1999

With J. Rossa, C. Tappert & Th. Augusteijn. Two new quasars at Z=1,90 and Z=0,15 from the Calán-Tololo survey. Astron. Astrophys. 350:379-80, 1999

With L. Wisotzki, N. Christlieb, M.C. Liu, N.D. Morgan & P.L. Schechter. The new complex gravitational lens system HE0230-2130. Astron. Astrophys. 348:41-4, 1999

With M. Wischnjewsky & R. Antezana. Calan-Tololo survey. VIII. One hundred southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 32:35-45, 1996

With P.F. Ortiz, M. Wischnjewsky, R. Antezana & L.E. Gonzalez. Calan-Tololo survey. VII. One hundred new southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 31(2):159-69, 1995

With M. Wischnjewsky, R. Antezana & L.E. Gonzalez. Calan-Tololo survey. VI. One hundred new southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 31(2):119-29, 1995

With M.T. Ruiz, L.E. Gonzalez, M. Wischnjewsky & R. Antezana. Calan-Tololo survey. V. Two hundred new southern quasars. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 25(1):51-7, 1993

With L.E. Gonzalez, M. Wischnjewsky & F. Barrientos. A new cataclysmic variable star. Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 104:1060, 1992

With M. Peña, S. Torres Peimbert & M.T. Ruiz. A newly discovered carbon-poor planetary nebula PN242-371. Astron. Astrophys. 237(2):454-60, 1990

With M. Peña, M.T. Ruiz & L.E. Gonzalez. A new halo planetary nebula. Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofís. 17(1):25-30, 1989

HONOURS

108113 Maza (asteroid)