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most citedFinal Moments I: Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf

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36 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

AT 2020afjz (TSS2020a): The First Fast Extragalactic Transient Discovered by TESS

Ryan Ridden-Harper, Hugh Roxburgh, Clarinda Montilla +13

We report the discovery of AT 2020afjz (TSS2020a): the first hour-scale extragalactic transient discovered in optical wavelengths whose complete evolution -- from explosion onset t…

astro-ph.HE2026

Ultraviolet to Infrared Spectroscopy of the Type Ibn SN 2023tsz Suggests a Lower-mass Progenitor

Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Luc Dessart +42

Type Ibn supernovae are stripped-envelope explosions whose spectra indicate interaction with dense, helium-rich and hydrogen-poor circumstellar material (CSM), making them importan…

astro-ph.HE2026

JWST Reveals Large Reservoirs of Dust and Ongoing Circumstellar Interaction in SN Ibn/Icn 2023xgo over a Year Post-Explosion

Kyle W. Davis, Kirsty Taggart, Samaporn Tinyanont +23

We present infrared (IR) photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2023xgo, a recent and nearby Type Ibn/Icn supernova (SN Ibn/Icn) which shows shock interaction with a He/C…

astro-ph.HE2026

SN 2024iss: A Multi-Wavelength Exposé of a Type IIb Supernova with an Early-Time Ultraviolet Spectrum and Shock Breakout Constraints

Rujula Yete, Wynn Jacobson-Galan, Ferdinand Ferdinand +49

We present multi-wavelength observations and a comprehensive analysis of the nearby (D14 Mpc) Type IIb supernova (SN IIb) 2024iss. Observations of SN2024iss include an early…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

An Archival Optical Counterpart Search for Extragalactic Fast X-Ray Transients Discovered by Einstein Probe

Run-Duo Liang, Wen-Xiong Li, Liang-Duan Liu +50

Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (eFXTs) represent a rapidly growing class of high-energy phenomena, whose physical origins remain poorly understood. With its wide-field, sensit…

astro-ph.HE2026

A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13

David A. Coulter, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +88

Observing supernovae (SNe) in the early Universe (z > 3) provides a window into how both galaxies and individual stars have evolved over cosmic time, yet a detailed study of high-r…

astro-ph.CO2026

Feeling Blue: Constructing a Robust SALT3 UV Template and Constraining its Redshift Dependency

Qinan Wang, David O. Jones, Justin D. R. Pierel +13

Upcoming cosmological surveys will obtain numerous rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), yet there is concern about how standardizable SNe Ia are…

astro-ph.HE2026

Expanding the High-z Supernova Frontier: "Wide-Area" JWST Discoveries from the First Two Years of COSMOS-Web

Ori D. Fox, Armin Rest, Justin D. R. Pierel +48

Transient astronomy in the early Universe (z > 2) remains largely unexplored, lying beyond the rest-frame optical spectroscopic reach of most current observatories. Yet this regime…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectral Diversity in Type Ibn Supernovae and the Large Host Offset of SN2024acyl

Yize Dong, V. Ashley Villar, Anya Nugent +35

In this paper, we first present observations of SN~2024acyl, a normal Type Ibn supernova with a large projected offset (35~kpc) from its host galaxy. The low star-formation r…

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2019vxm: A Shocking Coincidence between Fermi and TESS

Zachary G. Lane, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Sofia Rest +37

Shock breakout and, in some cases, jet-driven high-energy emission are increasingly recognized as key signatures of the earliest phases of core-collapse supernovae, especially in T…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Optimizing Convolution Direction and Template Selection for Difference Image Analysis

Rodrigo Angulo, Armin Rest, William P. Blair +8

Difference image analysis (DIA) is a powerful tool for studying time-variable phenomena, and has been used by many time-domain surveys. Most DIA algorithms involve matching the spa…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Characterising the Standardisation Properties of Type Ia Supernovae in the z band with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

Erin E. Hayes, Suhail Dhawan, Kaisey S. Mandel +21

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are standardisable candles: their peak magnitudes can be corrected for correlations between light curve properties and their luminosities to precisely e…

astro-ph.SR2025

Very Late-Time JWST and Keck Spectra of the Oxygen-Rich Supernova 1995N

Geoffrey C. Clayton, R. Wesson, Ori D. Fox +43

We present new {\it JWST}/MIRI MRS and Keck spectra of SN 1995N obtained in 2022--2023, more than 10,000 days after the supernova (SN) explosion. These spectra are among the latest…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Large Cold Dust Reservoir Revealed in Transitional SN Ib 2014C by James Webb Space Telescope Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

Samaporn Tinyanont, Ori D. Fox, Melissa Shahbandeh +32

Supernova (SN) 2014C is a rare transitional event that exploded as a hydrogen-poor, helium-rich Type Ib SN and subsequently interacted with a hydrogen-rich circumstellar medium (CS…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 5 cited

JWST/MIRI detects the dusty SN1993J about 30 years after explosion

Tamás Szalai, Szanna Zsíros, Jacob Jencson +37

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) have long been considered to contribute significantly to the cosmic dust budget. New dust cools quickly and is therefore detectable at mid-infrared…

astro-ph.IM2025

TESSELLATE: Piecing Together the Variable Sky With TESS

Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Andrew Moore +13

We present TESSELLATE, a dedicated pipeline for performing an untargeted search documenting all variable phenomena captured by the TESS space telescope. Building on the TESSreduce…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Properties of high-redshift Type II supernovae discovered by the JADES transient survey

Takashi J. Moriya, David A. Coulter, Christa DeCoursey +23

In this work we estimate the explosion and progenitor properties of six Type II supernovae (SNe) at 0.675 <= z <= 3.61 discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced…

astro-ph.HE2024

JWST/MIRI Observations of Newly Formed Dust in the Cold, Dense Shell of the Type IIn SN 2005ip

Melissa Shahbandeh, Ori D. Fox, Tea Temim +42

Dust from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), specifically Type IIP SNe, has been suggested to be a significant source of the dust observed in high-redshift galaxies. CCSNe eject lar…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Type I Superluminous Supernova Catalog I: Light Curve Properties, Models, and Catalog Description

Sebastian Gomez, Matt Nicholl, Edo Berger +25

We present the most comprehensive catalog to date of Type I Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe), a class of stripped envelope supernovae (SNe) characterized by exceptionally high lumi…

astro-ph.HE2024

The JADES Transient Survey: Discovery and Classification of Supernovae in the JADES Deep Field

Christa DeCoursey, Eiichi Egami, Justin D. R. Pierel +35

The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) is a multi-cycle JWST program that has taken among the deepest near-/mid-infrared images to date (down to 30 ABmag) over $…

astro-ph.HE2023

Serendipitous detection of the dusty Type IIL SN 1980K with JWST/MIRI

Szanna Zsíros, Tamás Szalai, Ilse De Looze +39

We present mid-infrared (mid-IR) imaging of the Type IIL supernova (SN) 1980K with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) more than 40 yr post-explosion. SN 1980K, located in the ne…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 83 cited

A Luminous Red Supergiant and Dusty Long-period Variable Progenitor for SN 2023ixf

Jacob E. Jencson, Jeniveve Pearson, Emma R. Beasor +23

We analyze pre-explosion near- and mid-infrared (IR) imaging of the site of SN 2023ixf in the nearby spiral galaxy M101 and characterize the candidate progenitor star. The star dis…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

A Comprehensive Investigation of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Detected by TESS

Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Zachary G. Lane +9

Gamma-ray bursts produce afterglows that can be observed across the electromagnetic spectrum and can provide insight into the nature of their progenitors. While most telescopes tha…