4 papers
Enhancement of the Rate of Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei due to the Sweeping Secular Resonance Mechanism
Xiaochen Zheng, Morgan MacLeod, Douglas N. C. Lin +2
Tidal disruption event (TDE) rates in active galactic nuclei (AGN) consistently exceed predictions from two-body relaxation, particularly in post-starburst and green valley galaxie…
SN 2021ukt: A Transitional Supernova with a Short Plateau and Persistent Interaction
Neil R. Pichay, Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Audrey M. Liddle +21
We present spectroscopic and photometric observations of supernova (SN) 2021ukt, a peculiar short-plateau object that was originally identified as a Type IIn SN and later underwent…
Spectropolarimetric Evolution of SN 2023ixf: an Asymmetric Explosion in a Confined Aspherical Circumstellar Medium
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Luc Dessart, Yi Yang +15
We present complete spectropolarimetric coverage of the Type II supernova (SN) 2023ixf ranging from 1 to 120 days after explosion. Polarimetry was obtained with the Kast double spe…
SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101: From Shock Breakout to the Nebular Phase
Weikang Zheng, Luc Dessart, Alexei V. Filippenko +39
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2023ixf covering from day one to 442 days after explosion. SN 2023ixf reached a peak -band absolute magnitude of $-18…