SN2018kzr: a rapidly declining transient from the destruction of a white dwarf

Owen R. McBrien, Stephen J. Smartt, Ting-Wan Chen +31

We present SN2018kzr, the fastest declining supernova-like transient, second only to the kilonova, AT2017gfo. SN2018kzr is characterized by a peak magnitude of $M_r=-17.98$, peak…