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Calcium-rich gap transients in the remote outskirts of galaxies
Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Avishay Gal-Yam +25
From the first two seasons of the Palomar Transient Factory, we identify three peculiar transients (PTF09dav, PTF10iuv, PTF11bij) with five distinguishing characteristics: peak lum…
Very Early Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2009ig
Ryan J. Foley, P. J. Challis, A. V. Filippenko +18
Supernova (SN) 2009ig was discovered 17 hours after explosion by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, promptly classified as a normal Type Ia SN (SN Ia), peaked at V = 13.5 mag,…
Constraints on the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2011fe/PTF11kly
Weidong Li, Joshua S. Bloom, Philipp Podsiadlowski +25
Type Ia supernovae (SNe) serve as a fundamental pillar of modern cosmology, owing to their large luminosity and a well-defined relationship between light-curve shape and peak brigh…
The Massive Progenitor of the Possible Type II-Linear Supernova 2009hd in Messier 66
Nancy Elias-Rosa, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Weidong Li +11
We present observations of SN2009hd in the nearby galaxy M66. This SN is one of the closest to us in recent years but heavily obscured by dust, rendering it unusually faint in the…
The Rise-Time Distribution of Nearby Type Ia Supernovae
Mohan Ganeshalingam, Weidong Li, Alexei V. Filippenko
We present an analysis of the B-band and V-band rise-time distributions of nearby Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We use a two-stretch template-fitting method to measure the rise and…
The Most Slowly Declining Type Ia Supernova 2001ay
Kevin Krisciunas, Weidong Li, Thomas Matheson +28
We present optical and near-infrared photometry, as well as ground-based optical spectra and Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet spectra, of the Type Ia supernova (SN) 2001ay. At ma…