4 papers
Optimizing Kilonova Searches: A Case Study of the Type IIb SN 2025ulz in the Localization Volume of the Low-Significance Gravitational Wave Event S250818k
Noah Franz, Bhagya Subrayan, Charles D. Kilpatrick +54
Kilonovae, the ultraviolet/optical/infrared counterparts to binary neutron star mergers, are an exceptionally rare class of transients. Optical follow-up campaigns are plagued by c…
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…
SAGUARO: Time-domain Infrastructure for the Fourth Gravitational-wave Observing Run and Beyond
Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Kerry Paterson, Jillian C. Rastinejad +14
We present upgraded infrastructure for Searches after Gravitational Waves Using ARizona Observatories (SAGUARO) during LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth gravitational-wave (GW) obser…
Evidence of weak circumstellar medium interaction in the Type II SN 2023axu
Manisha Shrestha, Jeniveve Pearson, Samuel Wyatt +34
We present high-cadence photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN~2023axu, a classical Type II supernova with an absolute -band peak magnitude of mag. SN~…