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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.IM2025

reLAISS: A Python Package for Flexible Similarity Searches of Supernovae and Their Host Galaxies

E. Reynolds, A. Gagliano, V. A. Villar

Discovery rates of supernovae are expected to surpass one million events annually with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. With unprecedented sample sizes of both common and rare transi…

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…

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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…