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most citedA giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star

428 citations · 13.9k across the 189 of their papers we have counts for

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188 papers

astro-ph.HE2023★ 13 cited

Long-rising Type II supernovae resembling supernova 1987A -- I. A comparative study through scaling relations

M. L. Pumo, S. P. Cosentino, A. Pastorello +4

With the aim of improving our knowledge about their nature, we conduct a comparative study on a sample of long-rising Type II supernovae (SNe) resembling SN 1987A. To do so, we ded…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

SN2017egm: A Helium-rich Superluminous Supernova with Multiple Bumps in the Light Curves

Jiazheng Zhu, Ning Jiang, Subo Dong +28

When discovered, SN~2017egm was the closest (redshift ) hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) and a rare case that exploded in a massive and metal-rich galaxy. Thu…

astro-ph.IM2023

The optical imager Galileo (OIG)

Bortoletto F., Benetti S., Bonanno G. +9

The present paper describes the construction, the installation and the operation of the Optical Imager Galileo (OIG), a scientific instrument dedicated to the 'imaging' in the visi…

astro-ph.IM2023

The commissioning phase

F. Bortoletto, S. Benetti, G. Bonanno +34

In May 1997 a consistent part of the services and structures committed to the industry had already been released to the commissioning group. The telescope itself was, with the exce…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Hidden shock powering the peak of SN 2020faa

I. Salmaso, E. Cappellaro, L. Tartaglia +9

The link between the fate of the most massive stars and the resulting supernova (SN) explosion is still a matter of debate, in major part because of the ambiguity among light-curve…

astro-ph.HE2022

A long life of excess: The interacting transient SN 2017hcc

S. Moran, M. Fraser, R. Kotak +29

In this study we present the results of a five-year follow-up campaign of the long-lived type IIn supernova SN 2017hcc, found in a spiral dwarf host of near-solar metallicity. The…