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most citedZTF SN Ia DR2: Colour standardisation of Type Ia Supernovae and its dependence on environment

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astro-ph.SR2026

SN 2024afyu interpreted as a Pair Instability Supernova

P. J. Pessi, S. Barmentloo, Ł. Wyrzykowski +63

Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are the predicted explosions of very massive stars triggered by electron-positron pair production. Numerous transients have been proposed as PIS…

astro-ph.GA2026

Supernovae Ia ejecta velocities and host galaxy environments: the role of survey-selection effects

L. V. Barkhudaryan, A. A. Hakobyan, M. H. Gevorgyan +6

The origin of the near-maximum-light Si II 6355 velocity diversity among supernovae Ia (SNe Ia) remains uncertain. Previous studies have suggested that high-velocity (HV) and no…

astro-ph.CO2026

ZTF SN Ia DR2 follow-up: early excess in Type Ia supernova light curves

Tomás E. Müller-Bravo, Kate Maguire, Alaa Alburai +15

There is broad consensus that Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are the thermonuclear explosions of C/O white dwarfs (WDs) in binary systems, but their progenitors and explosion mechanis…

astro-ph.GA2026

An analysis of the Type Ia SN 2024gy and a comparison of different host extinction estimation techniques

Jacco H. Terwel, Kate Maguire, Cillian O'Donnell +38

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are well-known standardisable candles, and are one of the main ways to measure the distance to their host galaxies. However, extinction due to interstel…

astro-ph.CO2026

Illuminating the Local Universe: Large-Scale Structure from ZTF Type Ia Supernovae

Antoine Gilles Lordet, Ariel Goobar, Jens Jasche +12

Within the volume-limited subsample at of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) DR2 sample, we confirm a statistically significant excess of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) arou…

astro-ph.IM2026

Photometric classification of supernovae detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility using noise augmentation

A. Townsend, J. Nordin, M. Kowalski +27

Modern time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), detect far more extragalactic transients than can be spectroscopically classified. Photometric classificati…

astro-ph.CO2026

Study of the anisotropy of cosmic expansion on ZTF type Iasupernovae simulations

C. Barjou-Delayre, P. Rosnet, C. Ravoux +29

The cosmological principle assumes the isotropy of the Universe at large scales. It is a foundational assumption in the CDM model, which is the current standard model of cosmolo…

astro-ph.HE2025

ZTF SN Ia DR2 follow-up: Characterization of subluminous Type Ia supernovae in the ZTF DR2 full sample

Alaa Alburai, Lluís Galbany, Umut Burgaz +19

The Zwicky Transient Facility Data Release 2 (ZTF DR2) includes a total of 3,628 Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia), providing the largest and most complete sample of spectroscopically co…

astro-ph.CO2025

ZTF-SEDm Type Ia supernova sample for Twins Embedding spectrophotometric standardisation

C. Ganot, Y. Copin, M. Rigault +26

This paper has two aims: the first one is to build a large homogeneous spectrophotometric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample, using 3069 spectra from the second Zwicky Transient Faci…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter

A. Gkini, C. Fransson, R. Lunnan +22

We present X-shooter observations of a sample of 21 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), spanning a redshift range of z=0.13-0.95, aimed at searching for shells of cir…

astro-ph.CO2025

ZTF SNe Ia DR2: Towards cosmology-grade ZTF supernova light curves using scene modeling photometry

L. Lacroix, N. Regnault, T. de Jaeger +36

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is conducting a wide-field survey of the northern sky in three optical bands and the collaboration cosmology working group has released 3628 spe…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2 follow-up: Exploring the origin of the Type Ia supernova host galaxy step through Si II velocities

U. Burgaz, K. Maguire, L. Galbany +18

The relationship between Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and their host galaxy stellar masses is well documented. In particular, Hubble residuals display a luminosity shift based on ho…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

A real-time search for Type Ia Supernovae with late-time CSM interaction in ZTF

Jacco H. Terwel, Kate Maguire, Seán J. Brennan +20

The nature of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) progenitor systems and the mechanisms that lead up to their explosions are still widely debated. In rare cases the SN ejecta interact with c…

astro-ph.SR2025

Is the Symbiotic Recurrent Nova T CrB Late? Recent Photometric Evolution and Comparison with Past Pre-Outburst Behaviour

Jaroslav Merc, Łukasz Wyrzykowski, Paul G. Beck +46

T CrB is a symbiotic recurrent nova that last erupted in 1946. Given its recurrence timescale of approximately 80 years, the next outburst is eagerly anticipated by the astronomica…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2: Improved SN Ia colors through expanded dimensionality with SALT3+

W. D. Kenworthy, A. Goobar, D. O. Jones +24

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a key probe in modern cosmology, as they can be used to measure luminosity distances at gigaparsec scales. Models of their light-curves are used to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2: High-velocity components in the Si II 6355

L. Harvey, K. Maguire, U. Burgaz +27

The ZTF SN Ia Data Release 2 provides a perfect opportunity to perform a thorough search for, and subsequent analysis of, high-velocity components in the Si II 6355 feature in t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2: Properties of the low-mass host galaxies of Type Ia supernovae in a volume-limited sample

U. Burgaz, K. Maguire, G. Dimitriadis +25

In this study, we explore the characteristics of `low-mass' () and `intermediate-mass' () host galaxies o…

astro-ph.GA2024

ZTF SN Ia DR2: An environmental study of Type Ia supernovae using host galaxy image decomposition

R. Senzel, K. Maguire, U. Burgaz +18

The second data release of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility has provided a homogeneous sample of 3628 SNe Ia with photometric and spectral info…

astro-ph.IM2024

How accurate are transient spectral classification tools? -- A study using 4,646 SEDMachine spectra

Young-Lo Kim, Isobel Hook, Andrew Milligan +13

Accurate classification of transients obtained from spectroscopic data are important to understand their nature and discover new classes of astronomical objects. For supernovae (SN…

astro-ph.CO2024

ZTF SN Ia DR2: Simulations and volume limited sample

M. Amenouche, M. Smith, P. Rosnet +27

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) constitute an historical probe to derive cosmological parameters through the fit of the Hubble-Lemaître diagram, i.e. SN Ia distance modulus versus thei…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2: Overview

Mickael Rigault, Mathew Smith, Ariel Goobar +53

We present the first homogeneous release of several thousand Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), all having spectroscopic classification, and spectroscopic redshifts for half the sample.…

astro-ph.HE2024

ZTF SN Ia DR2: The diversity and relative rates of the thermonuclear SN population

G. Dimitriadis, U. Burgaz, M. Deckers +28

The Zwicky Transient Facility SN Ia Data Release 2 (ZTF SN Ia DR2) contains more than 3,000 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), providing the largest homogeneous low-redshift sample of SN…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 14 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2: The spectral diversity of Type Ia supernovae in a volume-limited sample

U. Burgaz, K. Maguire, G. Dimitriadis +30

More than 3000 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are presented in the Zwicky Transient Facility SN Ia Data Release 2 (ZTF DR2). In this paper, we detail the s…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

ZTF SN Ia DR2: The secondary maximum in Type Ia supernovae

M. Deckers, K. Maguire, L. Shingles +24

Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) light curves have a secondary maximum that exists in the , , and near-infrared filters. The secondary maximum is relatively weak in the band, bu…