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PESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects
S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, M. Fraser +99
The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. We describe the data reduction str…
The hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova iPTF13ajg and its host galaxy in absorption and emission
Paul M. Vreeswijk, Sandra Savaglio, Avishay Gal-Yam +24
We present imaging and spectroscopy of a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory: iPTF13ajg. At a redshift of z=0.7403…
The warm, the excited, and the molecular gas: GRB 121024A shining through its star-forming galaxy
M. Friis, A. De Cia, T. Krühler +28
We present the first reported case of the simultaneous metallicity determination of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxy, from both afterglow absorption lines as well as strong emis…
VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of the afterglow of the Swift GRB 130606A: Chemical abundances and reionisation at
O. E. Hartoog, D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo +28
The reionisation of the Universe is thought to have ended around z~6, as inferred from spectroscopy of distant bright background sources, such as quasars (QSO) and gamma-ray burst…
A Wolf-Rayet-like progenitor of supernova SN 2013cu from spectral observations of a wind
Avishay Gal-Yam, I. Arcavi, E. O. Ofek +17
The explosive fate of massive stripped Wolf-Rayet (W-R) stars is a key open question in stellar physics. An appealing option is that hydrogen-deficient W-R stars are the progenitor…
A Continuum of H- to He-Rich Tidal Disruption Candidates With a Preference for E+A Galaxies
Iair Arcavi, Avishay Gal-Yam, Mark Sullivan +23
We present the results of a Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) archival search for blue transients which lie in the magnitude range between "normal" core-collapse and superluminous su…
Interaction-powered supernovae: Rise-time vs. peak-luminosity correlation and the shock-breakout velocity
E. O. Ofek, I. Arcavi, D. Tal +16
Interaction of supernova (SN) ejecta with the optically thick circumstellar medium (CSM) of a progenitor star can result in a bright, long-lived shock breakout event. Candidates fo…
On the (in)variance of the dust-to-metals ratio in galaxies
Lars Mattsson, Annalisa De Cia, Anja C. Andersen +1
Recent works have demonstrated a surprisingly small variation of the dust-to-metals ratio in different environments and a correlation between dust extinction and the density of sta…
GRB 120422A/SN 2012bz: Bridging the Gap between Low- And High-Luminosity GRBs
S. Schulze, D. Malesani, A. Cucchiara +62
At low redshift, a handful of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been discovered with peak luminosities () substantially lower than the average…
An Accreting White Dwarf near the Chandrasekhar Limit in the Andromeda Galaxy
Sumin Tang, Lars Bildsten, William M. Wolf +13
The iPTF detection of the most recent outburst of the recurrent nova system RX J0045.4+4154 in the Andromeda Galaxy has enabled the unprecedented study of a massive ($M>1.3\ M_\odo…