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most citedVolumetric rates of Luminous Red Novae and Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility

31 citations · 133 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day: [Ce/Mg] Is Not a Universal Chemical Clock

Liam O. Dubay, Jennifer A. Johnson, James W. Johnson +14

The ratio of -process to -element enrichment () has been proposed as a ``chemical clock,'' or a means to estimate stellar ages. However, the age-- relation vari…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

astro-ph.SR2025

Untangling the Sources of Abundance Dispersion in Low-metallicity Stars II: Neutron Capture Elements

Emily J. Griffith, Marissa Blum, David H. Weinberg +4

We present the abundances of 23 elements, including 11 heavy elements (Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu) for up to 86 metal-poor (-2 < [Fe/H] < -1) subgiants. We use KORG,…

astro-ph.HE2025

Twin peaks: SN 2021uvy and SN 2022hgk in the landscape of double-peaked stripped envelope supernovae

Yashvi Sharma, Jesper Sollerman, William Meynardie +25

In recent years, a class of stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) showing two distinct light-curve peaks has emerged, where the first peak cannot be attributed to shock cooling emis…

astro-ph.GA2025

On the Origin of Abundance Variations in the Milky Way's High- Plateau

Tawny Sit, David H. Weinberg, Emily J. Griffith

Using multi-element abundances from the SDSS APOGEE survey, we investigate the origin of abundance variations in Milky Way (MW) disk stars on the "high- plateau," with $-0.5\leq…

astro-ph.HE2025

Low-Luminosity Type IIP Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe. I: Luminosity Function, Volumetric Rate

Kaustav K. Das, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Christoffer Fremling +51

We present the luminosity function and volumetric rate of a sample of Type IIP supernovae (SNe) from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe survey (CLU). This i…

astro-ph.GA2024

Many elements matter: Detailed abundance patterns reveal star-formation and enrichment differences among Milky Way structural components

Emily J. Griffith, David W. Hogg, Sten Hasselquist +5

Many nucleosynthetic channels create the elements, but two-parameter models characterized by and Fe nonetheless predict stellar abundances in the Galactic disk to accuracies of…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars are Metal-Rich

James W. Johnson, David H. Weinberg, Guillermo A. Blanc +12

Metallicities of both gas and stars decline toward large radii in spiral galaxies, a trend known as the radial metallicity gradient. We quantify the evolution of the metallicity gr…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 17 cited

A cosmic formation site of silicon and sulphur revealed by a new type of supernova explosion

Steve Schulze, Avishay Gal-Yam, Luc Dessart +47

The cores of stars are the cosmic furnaces where light elements are fused into heavier nuclei. The fusion of hydrogen to helium initially powers all stars. The ashes of the fusion…

astro-ph.GA2024

2-process Model and Residual Abundance Analysis of the Milky Way Massive Satellites

Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Emily J. Griffith +4

The ``2-process Model'' is a promising technique for interpreting stellar chemical abundance data from large-scale surveys (e.g., SDSS-IV/V, GALAH), enabling more quantitative empi…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 12 cited

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Two-process Parameters and Residual Abundances for 288,789 Stars from Data Release 17

Tawny Sit, David H. Weinberg, Adam Wheeler +4

Stellar abundance measurements are subject to systematic errors that induce extra scatter and artificial correlations in elemental abundance patterns. We derive empirical calibrati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Probing pre-supernova mass loss in double-peaked Type Ibc supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility

Kaustav K. Das, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Jesper Sollerman +34

Eruptive mass loss of massive stars prior to supernova (SN) explosion is key to understanding their evolution and end fate. An observational signature of pre-SN mass loss is the de…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Long-rising Type II Supernovae in the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe

Tawny Sit, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Anastasios Tzanidakis +25

SN 1987A was an unusual hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernova originating from a blue supergiant star. Similar blue supergiant explosions remain a small family of events, and are b…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 27 cited

Collapsars as Sites of r-process Nucleosynthesis: Systematic Near-Infrared Follow-up of Type Ic-BL Supernovae

Shreya Anand, Jennifer Barnes, Sheng Yang +41

One of the open questions following the discovery of GW170817 is whether neutron star mergers are the only astrophysical sites capable of producing -process elements. Simulation…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Volumetric rates of Luminous Red Novae and Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Viraj R. Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nadejda Blagorodnova +27

Luminous red novae (LRNe) are transients characterized by low luminosities and expansion velocities, and are associated with mergers or common envelope ejections in stellar binarie…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Probing the low-mass end of core-collapse supernovae using a sample of strongly-stripped Calcium-rich Type IIb Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility

Kaustav K. Das, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Christoffer Fremling +23

The fate of stars in the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) range Msun is unclear. They could evolve to form white dwarfs or explode as electron-capture supernovae (SNe)…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 23 cited

The age distribution of stars in the Milky Way bulge

Tawny Sit, Melissa Ness

The age and chemical characteristics of the Galactic bulge link to the formation and evolutionary history of the Galaxy. Data-driven methods and large surveys enable stellar ages a…