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The carbon-rich type Ic supernova 2016adj in the iconic dust lane of Centaurus A: signatures of interaction with circumstellar hydrogen?
Maximilian D. Stritzinger, Eddie Baron, Francesco Taddia +24
We present a comprehensive data set of supernova (SN) 2016adj located within the central dust lane of Centaurus A. SN 2016adj is significantly reddened and after correcting the pea…
Broad-emission-line dominated hydrogen-rich luminous supernovae
P. J. Pessi, J. P. Anderson, G. Folatelli +27
Hydrogen-rich Type II supernovae (SNe II) are the most frequently observed class of core-collapse SNe (CCSNe). However, most studies that analyse large samples of SNe II lack event…
Infant-phase reddening by surface Fe-peak elements in a normal Type Ia Supernova
Yuan Qi Ni, Dae-Sik Moon, Maria R. Drout +41
Type Ia Supernovae are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars. They play a central role in the chemical evolution of the Universe and are an important measure of cosmologica…
Transitional events in the spectrophotometric regime between stripped envelope and superluminous supernovae
S. J. Prentice, C. Inserra, S. Schulze +24
The division between stripped-envelope supernovae (SE-SNe) and superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) is not well defined in either photometric or spectroscopic space. While a sharp lumi…
SN 2018bsz: significant dust formation in a nearby superluminous supernova
T. -W. Chen, S. J. Brennan, R. Wesson +41
We investigate the thermal emission and the extinction from dust associated with the nearby (z = 0.0267) superluminous supernova (SLSN) 2018bsz. Our dataset combines daily-cadence,…
SN 2018agk: A Prototypical Type Ia Supernova with a Smooth Power-law Rise in Kepler (K2)
Qinan Wang, Armin Rest, Yossef Zenati +73
We present the 30-min cadence Kepler/K2 light curve of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2018agk, covering approximately one week before explosion, the full rise phase and the decli…
Rapidly-Declining Hostless Type Ia Supernova KSP-OT-201509b from the KMTNet Supernova Program: Transitional Nature and Constraint on Ni Distribution and Progenitor Type
Dae-Sik Moon, Yuan Qi Ni, Maria R. Drout +8
We report the early discovery and multi-color () high-cadence light curve analyses of a rapidly-declining sub-Chandrasekhar Type Ia supernova KSP-OT-201509b (= AT2015cx) from…
Understanding the extreme luminosity of DES14X2fna
M. Grayling, C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Sullivan +66
We present DES14X2fna, a high-luminosity, fast-declining type IIb supernova (SN IIb) at redshift , detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). DES14X2fna is an unusual memb…
Constraints on the rate of supernovae lasting for more than a year from Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam
Takashi J. Moriya, Ji-an Jiang, Naoki Yasuda +15
Some supernovae such as pair-instability supernovae are predicted to have the duration of more than a year in the observer frame. To constrain the rates of supernovae lasting for m…
The low-luminosity type II SN\,2016aqf: A well-monitored spectral evolution of the Ni/Fe abundance ratio
Tomás E. Müller-Bravo, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Mark Sullivan +20
Low-luminosity type II supernovae (LL SNe~II) make up the low explosion energy end of core-collapse SNe, but their study and physical understanding remain limited. We present SN\,2…
An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz
M. Nicholl, T. Wevers, S. R. Oates +42
At 66 Mpc, AT2019qiz is the closest optical tidal disruption event (TDE) to date, with a luminosity intermediate between the bulk of the population and iPTF16fnl. Its proximity all…
Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey
T. de Jaeger, L. Galbany, S. González-Gaitán +85
Despite vast improvements in the measurement of the cosmological parameters, the nature of dark energy and an accurate value of the Hubble constant (H) in the Hubble-Lemaître l…
HSC16aayt: Slowly evolving interacting transient rising for more than 100 days
Takashi J. Moriya, Masaomi Tanaka, Tomoki Morokuma +19
We report our observations of HSC16aayt (SN 2016jiu), which was discovered by the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) transient survey conducted as part of Subaru Strategic Program (SSP…
KSP-SN-2016kf: a long-rising H-rich Type II Supernova with unusually high Ni mass discovered in the KMTNet Supernova Program
Niloufar Afsariardchi, Dae-Sik Moon, Maria R. Drout +12
We present the discovery and the photometric and spectroscopic study of H-rich Type II supernova (SN) KSP-SN-2016kf (SN2017it) observed in the KMTNet Supernova Program in the outsk…
Models and Simulations for the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
R. Kessler, G. Narayan, A. Avelino +26
We describe the simulated data sample for the "Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge" (PLAsTiCC), a publicly available challenge to classify transient…
The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material seen in most Type II Supernovae
F. Förster, T. J. Moriya, J. C. Maureira +35
Type II supernovae (SNe) originate from the explosion of hydrogen-rich supergiant massive stars. Their first electromagnetic signature is the shock breakout, a short-lived phenomen…
Type II supernovae in low luminosity host galaxies
C. P. Gutiérrez, J. P. Anderson, M. Sullivan +29
We present an analysis of a new sample of type II core-collapse supernovae (SNe II) occurring within low-luminosity galaxies, comparing these with a sample of events in brighter ho…
The lowest metallicity type II supernova from the highest mass red-supergiant progenitor
J. P. Anderson, L. Dessart, C. P. Gutiérrez +29
Red supergiants have been confirmed as the progenitor stars of the majority of hydrogen-rich type II supernovae. However, while such stars are observed with masses >25M, de…
Observed Type II supernova colours from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I
T. de Jaeger, J. P. Anderson, L. Galbany +12
We present a study of observed Type II supernova (SN~II) colours using optical/near-infrared photometric data from the \textit{Carnegie Supernovae Project-I}. We analyse four colou…
First release of high-redshift superluminous supernovae from the Subaru HIgh-Z sUpernova CAmpaign (SHIZUCA). I. Photometric properties
Takashi J. Moriya, Masaomi Tanaka, Naoki Yasuda +20
We report our first discoveries of high-redshift supernovae from the Subaru HIgh-Z sUpernova CAmpaign (SHIZUCA), the transient survey using Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam. We report the…
Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at redshift two
M. Smith, M. Sullivan, R. C. Nichol +87
We present observations of DES16C2nm, the first spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-free superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at redshift z~2. DES16C2nm was discovered by the Dark Ene…
A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source
S. J. Smartt, T. -W. Chen, A. Jerkstrand +118
Gravitational waves were discovered with the detection of binary black hole mergers and they should also be detectable from lower mass neutron star mergers. These are predicted to…
Type II supernova spectral diversity II: Spectroscopic and photometric correlations
Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Joseph P. Anderson, Mario Hamuy +7
We present an analysis of observed trends and correlations between a large range of spectral and photometric parameters of more than 100 type II supernovae (SNe~II), during the pho…
Type II supernova spectral diversity I: Observations, sample characterization and spectral line evolution
Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Joseph P. Anderson, Mario Hamuy +23
We present 888 visual-wavelength spectra of 122 nearby type II supernovae (SNe II) obtained between 1986 and 2009, and ranging between 3 and 363 days post explosion. In this first…