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Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star
Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell, Daniel Kasen +50
Every supernova hitherto observed has been considered to be the terminal explosion of a star. Moreover, all supernovae with absorption lines in their spectra show those lines decre…
Illuminating Gravitational Waves: A Concordant Picture of Photons from a Neutron Star Merger
M. M. Kasliwal, E. Nakar, L. P. Singer +78
Merging neutron stars offer an exquisite laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an…
The SED Machine: a robotic spectrograph for fast transient classification
Nadejda Blagorodnova, James D. Neill, Richard Walters +13
Current time domain facilities are finding several hundreds of transient astronomical events a year. The discovery rate is expected to increase in the future as soon as new surveys…
The first direct double neutron star merger detection: implications for cosmic nucleosynthesis
S. Rosswog, J. Sollerman, U. Feindt +4
The astrophysical r-process site where about half of the elements heavier than iron are produced has been a puzzle for several decades. Here we discuss the role of neutron star mer…
PTF11mnb: the first analog of supernova 2005bf
F. Taddia, J. Sollerman, C. Fremling +9
We study PTF11mnb, a He-poor supernova (SN) whose pre-peak light curves (LCs) resemble those of SN 2005bf, a peculiar double-peaked stripped-envelope (SE) SN. LCs, colors and spect…
Probing gas and dust in the tidal tail of NGC 5221 with the type Ia supernova iPTF16abc
R. Ferretti, R. Amanullah, A. Goobar +8
Context. Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be used to address numerous questions in astrophysics and cosmology. Due to their well known spectral and photometric properties, SNe Ia ar…
Early Observations of the Type Ia Supernova iPTF 16abc: A Case of Interaction with Nearby, Unbound Material and/or Strong Ejecta Mixing
A. A. Miller, Y. Cao, A. L. Piro +19
Early observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique probe of their progenitor systems and explosion physics. Here we report the intermediate Palomar Transient Factor…
The bumpy light curve of supernova iPTF13z
A. Nyholm, J. Sollerman, F. Taddia +10
A Type IIn supernova (SN) is dominated by the interaction of SN ejecta with the circumstellar medium (CSM). Some SNe IIn (e.g., SN 2006jd) have episodes of re-brightening ("bumps")…
Revisiting optical tidal disruption events with iPTF16axa
T. Hung, S. Gezari, N. Blagorodnova +12
We report the discovery by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16axa at , and present its broadband photometr…