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The Search for Stable Nickel: Investigating the Origins of Type Ia Supernovae with Late-time NIR Spectroscopy from the Carnegie Supernova Project-II
Sahana Kumar, Eric Y. Hsiao, Christopher Ashall +20
Producing stable Ni in Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) requires sufficiently high density conditions that are not predicted for all origin scenarios, so examining the distributi…
Type II supernovae in low luminosity host galaxies
C. P. Gutiérrez, J. P. Anderson, M. Sullivan +29
We present an analysis of a new sample of type II core-collapse supernovae (SNe II) occurring within low-luminosity galaxies, comparing these with a sample of events in brighter ho…
The early detection and follow-up of the highly obscured Type II supernova 2016ija/DLT16am
L. Tartaglia, D. J. Sand, S. Valenti +45
We present our analysis of the Type II supernova DLT16am (SN~2016ija). The object was discovered during the ongoing (DLT40) one day cadence supernova search a…
Early Spectra of the Gravitational Wave Source GW170817: Evolution of a Neutron Star Merger
B. J. Shappee, J. D. Simon, M. R. Drout +33
On 2017 August 17, Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a) was discovered as the optical counterpart of the binary neutron star gravitational wave event GW170817. We report time-seri…
The Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Evolution of the Low-Luminosity Tidal Disruption Event iPTF16fnl
J. S. Brown, C. S. Kochanek, T. W. -S. Holoien +14
We present the ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopic evolution of a tidal disruption event (TDE) for the first time. After the discovery of the nearby TDE iPTF16fnl, we obtained a series…
SN 2015bh: NGC 2770's 4th supernova or a luminous blue variable on its way to a Wolf-Rayet star?
C. C. Thöne, A. de Ugarte Postigo, G. Leloudas +13
Very massive stars in the final phases of their lives often show unpredictable outbursts that can mimic supernovae, so-called, "SN impostors", but the distinction is not always str…
PS1-14bj: A Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova With a Long Rise and Slow Decay
R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +27
We present photometry and spectroscopy of PS1-14bj, a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift discovered in the last months of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium De…
A Hubble diagram from Type II Supernovae based solely on photometry: the Photometric-Colour Method
T. de Jaeger, S. González-Gaitán, J. P. Anderson +20
We present a Hubble diagram of type II supernovae using corrected magnitudes derived only from photometry, with no input of spectral information. We use a data set from the Carnegi…
ASASSN-15lh: A Highly Super-Luminous Supernova
Subo Dong, B. J. Shappee, J. L. Prieto +27
We report the discovery of ASASSN-15lh (SN 2015L), which we interpret as the most luminous supernova yet found. At redshift z = 0.2326, ASASSN-15lh reached an absolute magnitude of…
Comprehensive Observations of the Bright and Energetic Type Iax SN 2012Z: Interpretation as a Chandrasekhar Mass White Dwarf Explosion
M. D. Stritzinger, S. Valenti, P. Hoeflich +19
We present UV through NIR broad-band photometry, and optical and NIR spectroscopy of Type Iax supernova 2012Z. The data set consists of both early and late-time observations, inclu…