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most citedThe Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance and First Results

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astro-ph.SR2016★ 100 cited

DES14X3taz: A Type I Superluminous Supernova Showing a Luminous, Rapidly Cooling Initial Pre-Peak Bump

M. Smith, M. Sullivan, C. B. D'Andrea +81

We present DES14X3taz, a new hydrogen-poor super luminous supernova (SLSN-I) discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova program, with additional photometric data provided…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 42 cited

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. VI. Observations of two distant Type Ibn supernova candidates discovered by La Silla-QUEST

A. Pastorello, E. Hadjiyska, D. Rabinowitz +31

We present optical observations of the peculiar stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe) LSQ12btw and LSQ13ccw discovered by the La Silla-QUEST survey. LSQ12btw reaches an absolute peak…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 361 cited

PESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, M. Fraser +99

The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. We describe the data reduction str…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 40 cited

iPTF13beo: The Double-Peaked Light Curve of a Type Ibn Supernova Discovered Shortly after Explosion

Evgeny Gorbikov, Avishay Gal-Yam, Eran O. Ofek +13

We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) supernova iPTF13beo. Detected by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory ~3 hours…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 20 cited

SN 2000cx and SN 2013bh: Extremely Rare, Nearly Twin Type Ia Supernovae

Jeffrey M. Silverman, Jozsef Vinko, Mansi M. Kasliwal +17

The Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2000cx was one of the most peculiar transients ever discovered, with a rise to maximum brightness typical of a SN Ia, but a slower decline and a hi…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 58 cited

The UV/optical spectra of the Type Ia supernova SN 2010jn: a bright supernova with outer layers rich in iron-group elements

S. Hachinger, P. A. Mazzali, M. Sullivan +19

Radiative transfer studies of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) hold the promise of constraining both the time-dependent density profile of the SN ejecta and its stratification by elemen…