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astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Characterization of type Ibn SNe

D. Farias, C. Gall, V. A. Villar +29

Type Ibn supernovae (SNe) are characterized by narrow helium (He I) lines from photons produced by the unshocked circumstellar material (CSM). About 80 SNe Ibn have been discovered…

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

Characterizing Supernova Host Galaxies with FrankenBlast: A Scalable Tool for Transient Host Galaxy Association, Photometry, and Stellar Population Modeling

Anya E. Nugent, V. Ashley Villar, Alex Gagliano +5

We present FrankenBlast, a customized and improved version of the Blast web application. FrankenBlast associates transients to their host galaxies, performs host photometry, and ru…

astro-ph.HE2025

Enabling Early Transient Discovery in LSST via Difference Imaging with DECam

Yize Dong, Kaylee de Soto, V. Ashley Villar +58

We present SLIDE, a pipeline that enables transient discovery in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), using archival images from the Da…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A Detection of Helium in the Bright Superluminous Supernova SN 2024rmj

Harsh Kumar, Edo Berger, Peter K. Blanchard +8

We present extensive ultraviolet (UV), optical, and near-infrared (NIR) photometric and spectroscopic observations of the nearby hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) SN20…

astro-ph.HE2025

Evidence for an Instability-Induced Binary Merger in the Double-Peaked, Helium-Rich Type IIn Supernova 2023zkd

A. Gagliano, V. A. Villar, T. Matsumoto +42

We present ultraviolet to infrared observations of the extraordinary Type IIn supernova 2023zkd (SN 2023zkd). Photometrically, it exhibits persistent and luminous precursor emissio…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

Seeing the Outer Edge of the Infant Type Ia Supernova 2024epr in the Optical and Near Infrared

W. B. Hoogendam, D. O. Jones, C. Ashall +30

We present optical-to-near-infrared (NIR) photometry and spectroscopy of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2024epr, including NIR spectra observed within two days of first light. The e…

astro-ph.HE2024

SN 2021foa: The "Flip-Flop" Type IIn / Ibn supernova

D. Farias, C. Gall, G. Narayan +29

We present a comprehensive analysis of the photometric and spectroscopic evolution of SN~2021foa, unique among the class of transitional supernovae for repeatedly changing its spec…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Blast: a Web Application for Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Astrophysical Transients

D. O. Jones, P. McGill, T. A. Manning +14

Characterizing the host galaxies of astrophysical transients is important to many areas of astrophysics, including constraining the progenitor systems of core-collapse supernovae,…

astro-ph.HE2024

Double "acct": a distinct double-peaked supernova matching pulsational pair-instability models

C. R. Angus, S. E. Woosley, R. J. Foley +35

We present multi-wavelength data of SN2020acct, a double-peaked stripped-envelope supernova (SN) in NGC2981 at ~150 Mpc. The two peaks are temporally distinct, with maxima separate…

astro-ph.HE2024

Finding the Fuse: Prospects for the Detection and Characterization of Hydrogen-Rich Core-Collapse Supernova Precursor Emission with the LSST

A. Gagliano, E. Berger, V. A. Villar +5

Enhanced emission in the months to years preceding explosion has been detected for several core-collapse supernovae (SNe). Though the physical mechanisms driving the emission remai…

astro-ph.HE2024

Anomaly Detection and Approximate Similarity Searches of Transients in Real-time Data Streams

P. D. Aleo, A. W. Engel, G. Narayan +29

We present LAISS (Lightcurve Anomaly Identification and Similarity Search), an automated pipeline to detect anomalous astrophysical transients in real-time data streams. We deploy…