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astro-ph.SR2015★ 83 cited
Seeing double: the frequency and detectability of double-peaked superluminous supernova light curves
M. Nicholl, S. J. Smartt
The discovery of double-peaked light curves in some superluminous supernovae offers an important new clue to their origins. We examine the published photometry of all Type Ic SLSNe…
astro-ph.SR2015★ 70 cited
Nebular spectra of pair-instability supernovae
A. Jerkstrand, S. J. Smartt, A. Heger
If very massive stars (M >~ 100 Msun) can form and avoid too strong mass loss during their evolution, they are predicted to explode as pair-instability supernovae (PISNe). One crit…