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The dusty red supergiant progenitor and the local environment of the Type II SN 2023ixf in M101
Ze-Xi Niu, Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund +3
As one of the closest supernovae (SNe) in the last decade, SN 2023ixf is an unprecedented target to investigate the progenitor star that exploded. However, there is still significa…
An environmental analysis of the fast transient AT2018cow and implications for its progenitor and late-time brightness
Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Yali Shao +1
The nature of the newly discovered fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) is still puzzling astronomers. In this paper we carry out a comprehensive analysis of the molecular gas, ion…
A UV census of the environments of stripped-envelope supernovae
Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther
This paper reports an environmental analysis of 41 uniformly-selected stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe) based on deep ultraviolet-optical images acquired by the Hubble Space Tel…
A hot and luminous source at the site of the fast transient AT2018cow at 2-3 years after its explosion
Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther +1
We report the discovery of a luminous late-time source at the position of the fast blue optical transient (FBOT) AT2018cow on images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at 71…
The VMC survey -- XLVII. Turbulence-Controlled Hierarchical Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Amy E. Miller, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Richard de Grijs +9
We perform a statistical clustering analysis of upper main-sequence stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using data from the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronom…
An environmental analysis of the Type Ib SN 2019yvr and the possible presence of an inflated binary companion
Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther +5
SN 2019yvr is the second Type Ib supernova (SN) with a possible direct detection of its progenitor (system); however, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the pre-explosion so…