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The ePESSTO+ census of ZTF nuclear transients. I. What flares in galactic nuclei?
E. Concepción, T. Petrushevska, G. Leloudas +21
Transients in galactic nuclei arise from distinct processes, only some of which trace the supermassive black hole (SMBH). These include tidal disruption events (TDEs), changing-loo…
Supernovae Unite: Host-Galaxy Mass Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae and Their Impact on Cosmology
J. Lee, R. Camilleri, T. M. Davis +22
Current consensus suggests that Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) brightnesses post light-curve standardization correlate with their host-galaxy stellar masses, which must be accounted for…
ZTF SN Ia DR2 follow-up: early excess in Type Ia supernova light curves
Tomás E. Müller-Bravo, Kate Maguire, Alaa Alburai +15
There is broad consensus that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are the thermonuclear explosions of C/O white dwarfs (WDs) in binary systems, but their progenitors and explosion mechanis…
Dust Without Na I D Trace: The Case of Highly Attenuated Type Ib SN 2024vjc
Javier Silva-Farfán, Keiichi Maeda, Andrea Pastorello +19
Understanding dust attenuation toward extragalactic transients is critical for recovering their intrinsic properties and probing the local environments of distant galaxies. A popul…
Early Near-Infrared Excess and Rapid Disk-Corona Evolution in the Tidal Disruption Event 2024aepd
Yongxin Wu, Yanan Wang, Thomas M. Reynolds +38
We present multi-wavelength observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) 2024aepd, spanning primarily the first 300 days after discovery. A prominent near-infrared (NIR)…
Detection of persistent helium absorption in the 91bg-like type Ia Supernova 2022an
Ping Chen, Avishay Gal-Yam, Subo Dong +14
We present optical and near-infrared observations of the fast-declining Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2022an. The photometric and spectroscopic properties identify it as a standard 91b…
The transitional Type Ibn/IIn SN 2022pda, with pre-explosion outbursts and a double-peaked light curve
Y. -Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, R. Chiba +65
We report the results of a photometric and spectroscopic follow-up campaign of the unusual interacting supernova (SN) 2022pda. Precursor variability lasting days is obse…
Early interaction signatures and an extended plateau phase in Type II SN 2020aze
B. Ailawadhi, R. Dastidar, K. Misra +27
We present a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the fast-declining Type II SN 2020aze, observed in optical bands from 2.2 to 137.4 days after explosion. The V-band light cur…
AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole
Daniel A. Perley, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Zoë McGrath +69
We present the discovery of AT 2024wpp ("Whippet"), a fast and luminous 18cow-like transient. At a redshift of z=0.0868, revealed by Keck Cosmic Web Imager spectroscopy of its fain…
Detection of disk-jet co-precession in a tidal disruption event
Yanan Wang, Zikun Lin, Linhui Wu +46
Theories and simulations predict that intense spacetime curvature near black holes bends the trajectories of light and matter, driving disk and jet precession under relativistic to…
ZTF-SEDm Type Ia supernova sample for Twins Embedding spectrophotometric standardisation
C. Ganot, Y. Copin, M. Rigault +26
This paper has two aims: the first one is to build a large homogeneous spectrophotometric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample, using 3069 spectra from the second Zwicky Transient Faci…
Revisiting the unification of tidal disruption events with polarimetry
H. C. I. Wichern, G. Leloudas, M. Pursiainen +10
Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes produce multi-wavelength emission, of which the optical emission is of ambiguous origin. A unification scenario of tidal disr…
SN 2021aaev: a Hydrogen-Rich Superluminous Supernova with Early Flash and Long-Lived Circumstellar Interaction in an Unusual Host Environment
Yang Hu, Ragnhild Lunnan, Priscila J. Pessi +25
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN\,2021aaev, a hydrogen-rich, superluminous supernova with persistent (at least days) narrow Balmer lines (SLSN-…
The case of AT2022wtn: a Tidal Disruption Event in an interacting galaxy
F. Onori, M. Nicholl, P. Ramsden +35
We present the results from our multi-wavelength monitoring campaign of the transient AT2022wtn, discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility in the nucleus of SDSSJ232323.79+104107…
Rapid follow-up observations of infant supernovae with the Gran Telescopio Canarias
Lluís Galbany, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Lara Piscarreta +21
The first few hours of a supernova (SN) contain significant information about the progenitor system. The most modern wide-field surveys that scan the sky repeatedly every few days…
How accurate are transient spectral classification tools? -- A study using 4,646 SEDMachine spectra
Young-Lo Kim, Isobel Hook, Andrew Milligan +13
Accurate classification of transients obtained from spectroscopic data are important to understand their nature and discover new classes of astronomical objects. For supernovae (SN…
On the diversity of strongly-interacting Type IIn supernovae
I. Salmaso, E. Cappellaro, L. Tartaglia +29
Massive stars experience strong mass-loss, producing a dense, H-rich circumstellar medium (CSM). After the explosion, the collision and continued interaction of the supernova (SN)…
The Einstein Probe transient EP240414a: Linking Fast X-ray Transients, Gamma-ray Bursts and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients
Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Andrew J. Levan, Peter G. Jonker +30
Detections of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) have been accrued over the last few decades. However, their origin has remained mysterious. There is now rapid progress thanks to timely…
SN 2023tsz: A helium-interaction driven supernova in a very low-mass galaxy
B. Warwick, J. Lyman, M. Pursiainen +49
SN 2023tsz is a Type Ibn supernova (SNe Ibn) discovered in an extremely low-mass host. SNe Ibn are an uncommon subtype of stripped-envelope core-collapse SNe. They are characterise…
A study in scarlet -- I. Photometric properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients
G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti +57
We investigate the photometric characteristics of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classi…
ZTF SN Ia DR2: The secondary maximum in Type Ia supernovae
M. Deckers, K. Maguire, L. Shingles +24
Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) light curves have a secondary maximum that exists in the , , and near-infrared filters. The secondary maximum is relatively weak in the band, bu…
ZTF SN Ia DR2: Exploring SN Ia properties in the vicinity of under-dense environments
M. Aubert, P. Rosnet, B. Popovic +29
The unprecedented statistics of detected Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) brought by the Zwicky Transient Facility enables us to probe the impact of the Large-Scale Structure on the pro…
ZTF SN Ia DR2: Colour standardisation of Type Ia Supernovae and its dependence on environment
M. Ginolin, M. Rigault, Y. Copin +37
As type Ia supernova (SN Ia) cosmology transitions from a statistics-dominated to a systematics-dominated era, it is crucial to understand the remaining unexplained uncertainties t…
ZTF SN Ia DR2: Environmental dependencies of stretch and luminosity of a volume limited sample of 1,000 Type Ia Supernovae
M. Ginolin, M. Rigault, M. Smith +43
To get distances, Type Ia Supernovae magnitudes are corrected for their correlation with lightcurve width and colour. Here we investigate how this standardisation is affected by th…