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The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background is detectable in Super-Kamiokande
Shunsaku Horiuchi, John F. Beacom, Eli Dwek
The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background (DSNB) provides an immediate opportunity to study the emission of MeV thermal neutrinos from core-collapse supernovae. The DSNB is a power…
Core-Collapse Astrophysics with a Five-Megaton Neutrino Detector
Matthew D. Kistler, Hasan Yuksel, Shin'ichiro Ando +2
The legacy of solar neutrinos suggests that large neutrino detectors should be sited underground. However, to instead go underwater bypasses the need to move mountains, allowing mu…
A New Class of Luminous Transients and A First Census of Their Massive Stellar Progenitors
Todd A. Thompson, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek +3
The progenitors of SN 2008S and the 2008 transient in NGC300 were dust-enshrouded, with extremely red mid-infrared (MIR) colors and relatively low luminosities. The transients were…
Revealing the High-Redshift Star Formation Rate with Gamma-Ray Bursts
Hasan Yuksel, Matthew D. Kistler, John F. Beacom +1
While the high-z frontier of star formation rate (SFR) studies has advanced rapidly, direct measurements beyond z ~ 4 remain difficult, as shown by significant disagreements among…
Discovery of the Dust-Enshrouded Progenitor of SN 2008S with Spitzer
J. L. Prieto, M. D. Kistler, T. A. Thompson +7
We report the discovery of the progenitor of the recent type IIn SN 2008S in the nearby galaxy NGC 6946. Surprisingly, it was not found in deep, pre-explosion optical images of its…
Conservative Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation into Gamma Rays
Gregory D. Mack, Thomas D. Jacques, John F. Beacom +2
Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cro…