6 papers
AT 2020afjz (TSS2020a): The First Fast Extragalactic Transient Discovered by TESS
Ryan Ridden-Harper, Hugh Roxburgh, Clarinda Montilla +13
We report the discovery of AT 2020afjz (TSS2020a): the first hour-scale extragalactic transient discovered in optical wavelengths whose complete evolution -- from explosion onset t…
TESSELLATE: Piecing Together the Variable Sky With TESS
Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Andrew Moore +13
We present TESSELLATE, a dedicated pipeline for performing an untargeted search documenting all variable phenomena captured by the TESS space telescope. Building on the TESSreduce…
Starkiller: subtracting stars and other sources from IFU spectroscopic data through forward modeling
Ryan Ridden-Harper, Michele T. Bannister, Sophie E. Deam +1
We present starkiller, an open-source Python package for forward-modeling flux retrieval from integral field unit spectrograph (IFU) datacubes. Starkiller simultaneously provides s…
Snapshot of a new interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS has a red and featureless spectrum
Cyrielle Opitom, Colin Snodgrass, Emmanuel Jehin +19
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to be discovered. Pre-perihelion measurements provide a unique opportunity to study its activity and compositi…
A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom +12
The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the first interstellar object where compositional characterisation was possible throughout its entire perihelion passage. We report all 16 epoc…
Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models
Antonia Seifert, Zachary G. Lane, Marco Galoppo +2
We present a new, cosmologically model-independent, statistical analysis of the Pantheon+ type Ia supernovae spectroscopic dataset, improving a standard methodology adopted by Lane…