activity
20182020
most citedDiscovery of Highly Blueshifted Broad Balmer and Metastable Helium Absorption Lines in a Tidal Disruption Event

67 citations · 67 across the 1 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

10 papers

astro-ph.HE2020

Bright, months-long stellar outbursts announce the explosion of interaction-powered supernovae

Nora L. Strotjohann, Eran O. Ofek, Avishay Gal-Yam +53

Interaction-powered supernovae (SNe) explode within an optically-thick circumstellar medium (CSM) that could be ejected during eruptive events. To identify and characterize such pr…

astro-ph.HE2020

Early Ultra-Violet observations of type IIn supernovae constrain the asphericity of their circumstellar material

Maayane T. Soumagnac, Eran O. Ofek, Jingyi Liang +41

We present a survey of the early evolution of 12 Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn) in the Ultra-Violet (UV) and visible light. We use this survey to constrain the geometry of the circu…

astro-ph.HE2019

SN 2018fif: The Explosion of a Large Red Supergiant Discovered in Its Infancy by the Zwicky Transient Facility

Maayane T. Soumagnac, Noam Ganot, Ido Irani +32

High cadence transient surveys are able to capture supernovae closer to their first light than before. Applying analytical models to such early emission, we can constrain the proge…

astro-ph.SR2019

Observations of Type Ia Supernova 2014J for Nearly 900 Days and Constraints on Its Progenitor System

Wenxiong Li, Xiaofeng Wang, Maokai Hu +18

We present extensive ground-based and () photometry of the highly reddened, very nearby type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2014J in M82, covering the phases fr…

astro-ph.HE2019

SN 2016hil-- a Type II supernova in the remote outskirts of an elliptical host and its origin

Ido Irani, Steve Schulze, Avishay Gal-Yam +14

Type II supernovae (SNe) stem from the core collapse of massive () stars. Owing to their short lifespan, we expect a very low rate of such events in elliptical host…

astro-ph.HE2019

The Young and Nearby Normal Type Ia Supernova 2018gv: UV-Optical Observations and the Earliest Spectropolarimetry

Yi Yang, Peter A. Hoeflich, Dietrich Baade +25

The non-detection of companion stars in Type Ia supernova (SN) progenitor systems lends support to the notion of double-degenerate (DD) systems and explosions triggered by the merg…