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The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star
Charles D. Kilpatrick, Aswin Suresh, Kyle W. Davis +7
We present follow-up imaging and spectroscopy and pre-explosion imaging of supernova (SN) 2025pht located in NGC 1637 at 12 Mpc. Our spectroscopy shows that SN 2025pht is a Type II…
An Updated Detection Pipeline for Precursor Emission in Type II Supernova 2020tlf
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Sebastian Gonzalez, Shreyas Patel +34
We present a new photometric pipeline for the detection of pre-supernova (pre-SN) emission in the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) sky survey. The method described is applied to SN…
SN 2024ggi in NGC 3621: Rising Ionization in a Nearby, CSM-Interacting Type II Supernova
W. V. Jacobson-Galán, K. W. Davis, C. D. Kilpatrick +28
We present UV/optical/NIR observations and modeling of supernova (SN) 2024ggi, a type II supernova (SN II) located in NGC 3621 at 7.2 Mpc. Early-time ("flash") spectroscopy of SN 2…
Keck Infrared Transient Survey I: Survey Description and Data Release 1
S. Tinyanont, R. J. Foley, K. Taggart +35
We present the Keck Infrared Transient Survey (KITS), a NASA Key Strategic Mission Support program to obtain near-infrared (NIR) spectra of astrophysical transients of all types, a…
SN2023ixf in Messier 101: A Variable Red Supergiant as the Progenitor Candidate to a Type II Supernova
Charles D. Kilpatrick, Ryan J. Foley, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galán +15
We present pre-explosion optical and infrared (IR) imaging at the site of the type II supernova (SN II) 2023ixf in Messier 101 at 6.9 Mpc. We astrometrically registered a ground-ba…
SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: Photo-ionization of Dense, Close-in Circumstellar Material in a Nearby Type II Supernova
W. V. Jacobson-Galan, L. Dessart, R. Margutti +65
We present UV/optical observations and models of supernova (SN) 2023ixf, a type II SN located in Messier 101 at 6.9 Mpc. Early-time ("flash") spectroscopy of SN 2023ixf, obtained p…
First Impressions: Early-Time Classification of Supernovae using Host Galaxy Information and Shallow Learning
Alexander Gagliano, Gabriella Contardo, Daniel Foreman-Mackey +2
Substantial effort has been devoted to the characterization of transient phenomena from photometric information. Automated approaches to this problem have taken advantage of comple…
YSE-PZ: A Transient Survey Management Platform that Empowers the Human-in-the-Loop
D. A. Coulter, D. O. Jones, P. McGill +19
The modern study of astrophysical transients has been transformed by an exponentially growing volume of data. Within the last decade, the transient discovery rate has increased by…
Supernova 2020wnt: An Atypical Superluminous Supernova with a Hidden Central Engine
Samaporn Tinyanont, Stan E. Woosley, Kirsty Taggart +34
We present observations of a peculiar hydrogen- and helium-poor stripped-envelope (SE) supernova (SN) 2020wnt, primarily in the optical and near-infrared (near-IR). Its peak absolu…
The Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1): Light Curves and Photometric Classification of 1975 Supernovae
P. D. Aleo, K. Malanchev, S. Sharief +80
We present the Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1), comprised of processed multi-color Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) griz and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) gr photometry of 1…
A fast rising tidal disruption event from a candidate intermediate mass black hole
C. R. Angus, V. F. Baldassare, B. Mockler +36
Massive black holes (BHs) at the centres of massive galaxies are ubiquitous. The population of BHs within dwarf galaxies, on the other hand, is evasive. Dwarf galaxies are thought…
Relative intrinsic scatter in hierarchical Type Ia supernova siblings analyses: Application to SNe 2021hpr, 1997bq & 2008fv in NGC 3147
Sam M. Ward, Stephen Thorp, Kaisey S. Mandel +22
We present Young Supernova Experiment photometry of SN 2021hpr, the third Type Ia supernova sibling to explode in the Cepheid calibrator galaxy, NGC 3147. Siblings are usef…
DELIGHT: Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients using Multi-resolution Images
Francisco Förster, Alejandra M. Muñoz Arancibia, Ignacio Reyes +25
We present DELIGHT, or Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients, a new algorithm designed to automatically and in real-time identify the host galaxies of extragal…
From Data to Software to Science with the Rubin Observatory LSST
Katelyn Breivik, Andrew J. Connolly, K. E. Saavik Ford +97
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) dataset will dramatically alter our understanding of the Universe, from the origins of the Solar System to the…
Evidence for Extended Hydrogen-Poor CSM in the Three-Peaked Light Curve of Stripped Envelope Ib Supernova
Yossef Zenati, Qinan Wang, Alexey Bobrick +40
We present multi-band ATLAS photometry for SN 2019tsf, a stripped-envelope Type Ib supernova (SESN). The SN shows a triple-peaked light curve and a late (re-)brightening, making it…
The Simulated Catalogue of Optical Transients and Correlated Hosts (SCOTCH)
Martine Lokken, Alexander Gagliano, Gautham Narayan +9
As we observe a rapidly growing number of astrophysical transients, we learn more about the diverse host galaxy environments in which they occur. Host galaxy information can be use…
Progenitor and Close-In Circumstellar Medium of Type II Supernova 2020fqv from High-Cadence Photometry and Ultra-Rapid UV Spectroscopy
Samaporn Tinyanont, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Ryan Foley +35
We present observations of SN 2020fqv, a Virgo-cluster Type II core-collapse supernova (CCSN) with a high temporal resolution light curve from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satel…
Final Moments I: Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Luc Dessart, David Jones +33
We present panchromatic observations and modeling of supernova (SN) 2020tlf, the first normal type II-P/L SN with confirmed precursor emission, as detected by the Young Supernova E…
An Early-Time Optical and Ultraviolet Excess in the type-Ic SN 2020oi
Alexander Gagliano, Luca Izzo, Charles D. Kilpatrick +30
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of Supernova 2020oi (SN 2020oi), a nearby (17 Mpc) type-Ic supernova (SN Ic) within the grand-design spiral M100. We und…
The Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations
D. O. Jones, R. J. Foley, G. Narayan +68
Time domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational domains, in…
GHOST: Using Only Host Galaxy Information to Accurately Associate and Distinguish Supernovae
Alex Gagliano, Gautham Narayan, Andrew Engel +1
We present GHOST, a database of 16,175 spectroscopically classified supernovae and the properties of their host galaxies. We have developed a host galaxy association method using i…
A wide field map of intracluster globular clusters in Coma
Juan P. Madrid, Conor R. O'Neill, Alexander T. Gagliano +1
The large-scale distribution of globular clusters in the central region of the Coma cluster of galaxies is derived through the analysis of Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera fo…