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Sifting for Sapphires: Systematic Selection of Tidal Disruption Events in iPTF
T. Hung, S. Gezari, S. B. Cenko +15
We present results from a systematic selection of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in a wide-area (4800~deg), band, Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) experiment…
iPTF Survey for Cool Transients
S. M. Adams, N. Blagorodnova, M. M. Kasliwal +25
We performed a wide-area (2000 deg) g and I band experiment as part of a two month extension to the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory. We discovered 36 extragalactic tra…
iPTF16asu: A Luminous, Rapidly-Evolving, and High-Velocity Supernova
L. Whitesides, R. Lunnan, M. M. Kasliwal +23
Wide-field surveys are discovering a growing number of rare transients whose physical origin is not yet well understood. Here, we present optical and UV data and analysis of iPTF16…
Preparing for advanced LIGO: A Star-Galaxy Separation Catalog for the Palomar Transient Factory
A. A. Miller, M. K. Kulkarni, Y. Cao +3
The search for fast optical transients, such as the expected electromagnetic counterparts to binary neutron star mergers, is riddled with false positives ranging from asteroids to…
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")…
iPTF16fnl: a faint and fast tidal disruption event in an E+A galaxy
N. Blagorodnova, S. Gezari, T. Hung +30
We present ground-based and \textit{Swift} observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey a…