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Shortening the Baseline: Characterising Type Ia Supernovae Using
Joel M. Velasco, Paolo A. Mazzali, Christopher Ashall +8
An explorative study of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) light curves is presented. decline-rate metrics are used to evaluate alternative characterisations of light curve di…
Little Red Dots as Shock-Powered High-Energy Neutrino Sources
Tyco Mera, Chris Ashall, Shunsaku Horiuchi +3
Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact, high-redshift sources whose physical nature remains uncertain. Their optical spectra bear many similarities to Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn), mo…
JWST Medium-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of SN 2022acko: Tracing Molecule Formation in the Nebular Phase
K. Medler, T. Mera, C. Ashall +28
The Type II supernova (SN II) SN 2022acko was the first to be spectroscopically observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (). Here, we analyze SN 2022acko's second…
JWST observations of SN 2024abup: First Detection of CO in a broad-lined Type Ic Supernova and Constraints on r-process Nucleosynthesis
Manisha Shrestha, Lindsey A. Kwok, David J. Sand +42
SN 2024abup is a nearby broad-lined Type Ic supernova (SN Ic-bl) in NGC 0681 at a distance of 23.3 \pm 1.6 Mpc. As energetic explosions of massive stars, SNe Ic-bl are considered a…
Probing the 3D Structures of Supernovae through IR Signatures of CO and SiO
T. Mera, P. Hoeflich, C. R. Burns +12
We present a new public-domain MOlecular Fitting Analysis Tool (MOFAT) designed to probe molecule-forming regions in supernovae (SNe) through analysis of molecular features in the…
Line Polarization of Si II 6355 Å in Type Ia Supernovae: A New Statistical Approach to Probe the Explosion Physics and Diversity
Aleksandar Cikota, Peter Hoeflich, Dietrich Baade +6
Spectropolarimetry provides a unique probe of ejecta asphericities, offering direct insights into the underlying explosion physics of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We analyze the st…