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Making Sense of Nothing
Douglas C. Leonard
A model of the optical light detected following the merger of two neutron stars reveals polarization to be a unique probe of the geometry of the kilonova explosion that accompanied…
Polarization signatures of a high-velocity scatterer in nebular-phase spectra of Type II supernovae
Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Douglas C. Leonard
Type II supernovae (SNe) often exhibit a linear polarization, arising from free-electron scattering, with complicated optical signatures, both in the continuum and in lines. Focusi…
Infrared Spectropolarimetric Detection of Intrinsic Polarization from a Core-Collapse Supernova
Samaporn Tinyanont, Maxwell Millar-Blanchaer, Mansi Kasliwal +8
Massive stars die an explosive death as a core-collapse supernova (CCSN). The exact physical processes that cause the collapsing star to rebound into an explosion are not well-unde…
Multiepoch VLT-FORS spectro-polarimetric observations of supernova 2012aw reveal an asymmetric explosion
Luc Dessart, Douglas C. Leonard, D. John Hillier +1
We present VLT-FORS spectropolarimetric observations of the type II supernova (SN) 2012aw taken at seven epochs during the photospheric phase, from 16 to 120d after explosion. We c…