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The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey
A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal +8
The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) currently covers 33,000 deg^2 of the sky in search of transient astrophysical events, with time baselines ranging from 10 minutes to…
The Discovery and Nature of Optical Transient CSS100217:102913+404220
A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal +32
We report on the discovery and observations of the extremely luminous optical transient CSS100217:102913+404220 (CSS100217 hereafter). Spectroscopic observations show this transien…
SDWFS-MT-1: A Self-Obscured Luminous Supernova at z~0.2
Szymon Kozlowski, C. S. Kochanek, D. Stern +22
We report the discovery of a six-month-long mid-infrared transient, SDWFS-MT-1 (aka SN 2007va), in the Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Bootes fie…
Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion
A. Gal-Yam, P. Mazzali, E. O. Ofek +21
Stars with initial masses 10 M_{solar} < M_{initial} < 100 M_{solar} fuse progressively heavier elements in their centres, up to inert iron. The core then gravitationally collapses…