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20142026
most citedPESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

361 citations · 2.1k across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

A Faint Progenitor System for the Faint Supernova 2024vjm

Erez A. Zimmerman, Avishay Gal-Yam, Paul J. Groot +68

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are well known for their role as standardizable cosmological candles. Their uniformity is credited to their single origin as thermonuclear explosions of…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Einstein Probe transient EP240414a: Linking Fast X-ray Transients, Gamma-ray Bursts and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Andrew J. Levan, Peter G. Jonker +30

Detections of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) have been accrued over the last few decades. However, their origin has remained mysterious. There is now rapid progress thanks to timely…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

A 12.4 day periodicity in a close binary system after a supernova

Ping Chen, Avishay Gal-Yam, Jesper Sollerman +37

Neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes are the remnants of massive star explosions. Most massive stars reside in close binary systems, and the interplay between the companion s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

The Early Ultraviolet Light-Curves of Type II Supernovae and the Radii of Their Progenitor Stars

Ido Irani, Jonathan Morag, Avishay Gal-Yam +18

We present a sample of 34 normal SNe II detected with the Zwicky Transient Facility, with multi-band UV light-curves starting at days after explosion, as well as X-ray d…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

SN 2020zbf: A fast-rising hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova with strong carbon lines

A. Gkini, R. Lunnan, S. Schulze +24

SN\,2020zbf is a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) at that shows conspicuous \ion{C}{II} features at early times, in contrast to the majority of H-poor SLSN…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 4 cited

The Progenitor Star of SN 2023ixf: A Massive Red Supergiant with Enhanced, Episodic Pre-Supernova Mass Loss

Yu-Jing Qin, Keming Zhang, Joshua Bloom +10

We identify the progenitor star of SN 2023ixf in the nearby galaxy Messier 101 using Keck/NIRC2 adaptive optics imaging and pre-explosion HST/ACS images. The supernova position, lo…