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astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, Om Sharan Salafia +52

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. Rapid identification…

astro-ph.HE2021

SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO-Virgo Event GW190814

Douglas Tucker, Matthew Wiesner, Sahar Allam +140

On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

A puzzle solved after two decades: SN 2002gh among the brightest of superluminous supernovae

Régis Cartier, Mario Hamuy, Carlos Contreras +9

We present optical photometry and spectroscopy of the superluminous SN 2002gh from maximum light to days, obtained as part of the Carnegie Type II Supernova (CATS) project.…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

SN 2019hcc: A Type II Supernova Displaying Early O II Lines

Eleonora Parrag, Cosimo Inserra, Steve Schulze +18

We present optical spectroscopy together with ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared photometry of SN 2019hcc, which resides in a host galaxy at redshift 0.044, displaying a sub-so…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 14 cited

Core-collapse supernova subtypes in luminous infrared galaxies

E. Kankare, A. Efstathiou, R. Kotak +34

We present the discovery and follow-up observations of two CCSNe that occurred in the luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG), NGC3256. The first, SN2018ec, was discovered using the ESO HA…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 29 cited

Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

S. J. Brennan, M. Fraser, J. Johansson +68

We present the results from a high cadence, multi-wavelength observation campaign of AT 2016jbu (aka Gaia16cfr), an interacting transient. This dataset complements the current lite…