Rapidly Rising Transients in the Supernova - Superluminous Supernova Gap

Iair Arcavi, William M. Wolf, D. Andrew Howell +26

We present observations of four rapidly rising (t_{rise}~10d) transients with peak luminosities between those of supernovae (SNe) and superluminous SNe (M_{peak}~-20) - one discove…