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20242026
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10 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

The Eye of Sauron in SN 2025ngs: a Short-plateau Cousin of SN 1998S with Evidence for a Ring-like Circumstellar Medium

Conor L. Ransome, David J. Sand, K. Azalee Bostroem +35

Interacting supernovae probe the twilight years of massive stars, exhibiting signatures of interaction between the supernova ejecta and surrounding material expelled from the proge…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectral Diversity in Type Ibn Supernovae and the Large Host Offset of SN2024acyl

Yize Dong, V. Ashley Villar, Anya Nugent +35

In this paper, we first present observations of SN~2024acyl, a normal Type Ibn supernova with a large projected offset (35~kpc) from its host galaxy. The low star-formation r…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Mid-Infrared Dust Evolution and Late-time Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2017eaw

Jeniveve Pearson, Bhagya Subrayan, David J. Sand +24

We present JWST/MIRI and complementary ground-based near-infrared observations of the Type II SN 2017eaw taken 6 years post-explosion. SN 2017eaw is still detected out to 25 m…

astro-ph.HE2025

One Year of SN 2023ixf: Breaking Through the Degenerate Parameter Space in Light-Curve Models with Pulsating Progenitors

Brian Hsu, Nathan Smith, Jared A. Goldberg +21

We present and analyze the extensive optical broadband photometry of the Type II SN 2023ixf up to one year after explosion. We find that, when compared to two pre-existing model gr…

astro-ph.HE2025

Late-time Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Spectra of SN 2023ixf and SN 2024ggi Show Ongoing Interaction with Circumstellar Material

K. Azalee Bostroem, Stefano Valenti, David J. Sand +31

We present far- and near-ultraviolet (UV) spectra of the Type II supernovae (SNe) SN~2023ixf from days 199 to 722 and SN~2024ggi at days 41 and 232. Both supernovae show broad, blu…