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Unsupervised Tool Evolution for Coding Agents in Data-Lake Analytics
Yuqing Yang, Yurong Liu, Deqing Fu +5
Coding agents can answer analytical questions over a data lake by discovering, cleaning, and joining the relevant data. However, they discard this work after each question and redo…
Automatically distinguishing Rubin transients from AGN using variability metrics
Dylan Magill, Matt Nicholl, Philip Wiseman +7
Stochastic variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can produce contaminants in the search for explosive extragalactic transients (such as supernovae and tidal disruption events…
Peak 'Nebular' Emission and Early Flux Excesses in Ca-strong Supernovae
C. -G. Touchard-Paxton, K. Maguire, C. Frohmaier +27
Calcium-strong supernovae (Ca-strong SNe) are a class of thermonuclear transient characterised by rapid photometric evolution (rise times of <= 16 d) and nebular-phase spectra domi…
AT2025agpz in Rubin commissioning data: distinguishing a luminous interacting supernova from nuclear transients in compact galaxies
C. R. Angus, M. Quilt, H. F. Stevance +37
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time will discover unprecedented numbers of rare, long-lived optical transients, many of which will be too faint or too n…
The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: A Reanalysis Of Cosmology Results And Evidence For Evolving Dark Energy With An Updated Type Ia Supernova Calibration
B. Popovic, P. Shah, W. D. Kenworthy +80
We present improved cosmological constraints from a re-analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-year sample of Type Ia supernovae (DES-SN5YR). This re-analysis includes an improv…
The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey
Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75
We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…
Testing and Combining Transient Spectral Classification Tools on 4MOST-like Blended Spectra
Andrew Milligan, Isobel Hook, Christopher Frohmaier +15
With the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) expected to provide an influx of transient spectra when it begins observations in early 2026 we consider the potential…
SN 2023xwi: Forbidden line emission in the peak spectrum of a Ca-strong transient
C. -G. Touchard-Paxton, C. Frohmaier, M. Pursiainen +7
We present an extensive optical photometric and spectroscopic investigation into the calcium-rich supernova (SN) - SN2023xwi. Observations from a variety of ground-based telescopes…
TiDES: The 4MOST Time Domain Extragalactic Survey
C. Frohmaier, M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan +24
The Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) conducted on the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) will perform spectroscopic follow-up of extragalactic transients…
A Young Supernova Selection Pipeline For The LSST Era
Harry Addison, Chris Frohmaier, Kate Maguire +3
Early-time spectroscopy of supernovae (SNe), acquired within days of explosion, yields crucial insights into their outermost ejecta layers, facilitating the study of their environm…
ZTF SN Ia DR2: The diversity and relative rates of the thermonuclear SN population
G. Dimitriadis, U. Burgaz, M. Deckers +28
The Zwicky Transient Facility SN Ia Data Release 2 (ZTF SN Ia DR2) contains more than 3,000 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), providing the largest homogeneous low-redshift sample of SN…
Reduction of the type Ia supernova host galaxy step in the outer regions of galaxies
M. Toy, P. Wiseman, M. Sullivan +63
Using 1533 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the five-year sample of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we investigate the relationship between the projected galactocentric separation of…
Searching for late-time interaction signatures in Type Ia supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Jacco H. Terwel, Kate Maguire, Georgios Dimitriadis +23
The nature of the progenitor systems and explosion mechanisms that give rise to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are still debated. The interaction signature of circumstellar material (…
The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Analysis and Systematic Uncertainties
M. Vincenzi, D. Brout, P. Armstrong +93
We present the full Hubble diagram of photometrically-classified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey supernova program (DES-SN). DES-SN discovered more than 20,…
The enigmatic double-peaked stripped-envelope SN 2023aew
Tuomas Kangas, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Takashi Nagao +29
We present optical and near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2023aew and our findings on its remarkable properties. This event, initially resembling a Type IIb supernova…
The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset
DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Acevedo +156
We present cosmological constraints from the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) discovered during the full five years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program. In contra…
Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx
P. Wiseman, Y. Wang, S. Hönig +43
We present observations from X-ray to mid-infrared wavelengths of the most energetic non-quasar transient ever observed, AT2021lwx. Our data show a single optical brightening by a…
Rates and properties of type Ia supernovae in galaxy clusters within the Dark Energy Survey
M. Toy, P. Wiseman, M. Sullivan +59
We identify 66 photometrically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) that have occurred within red-sequence selected galaxy clusters. We compare…
Panning for gold, but finding helium: discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations
I. Agudo, L. Amati, T. An +96
We present the results from multi-wavelength observations of a transient discovered during the follow-up of S191213g, a gravitational wave (GW) event reported by the LIGO-Virgo Col…
Concerning Colour: The Effect of Environment on Type Ia Supernova Colour in the Dark Energy Survey
L. Kelsey, M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman +67
Recent analyses have found intriguing correlations between the colour () of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and the size of their 'mass-step', the relationship between SN Ia host ga…
A galaxy-driven model of type Ia supernova luminosity variations
P. Wiseman, M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan +59
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are used as standardisable candles to measure cosmological distances, but differences remain in their corrected luminosities which display a magnitude s…
Core-collapse Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey: Luminosity Functions and Host Galaxy Demographics
M. Grayling, C. P. Gutiérrez, M. Sullivan +73
We present the luminosity functions and host galaxy properties of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) core-collapse supernova (CCSN) sample, consisting of 69 Type II and 50 Type Ibc spect…
The detection efficiency of type Ia supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility: Limits on the intrinsic rate of early flux excesses
M. R. Magee, C. Cuddy, K. Maguire +8
Samples of young type Ia supernovae have shown `early excess' emission in a few cases. Similar excesses are predicted by some explosion and progenitor scenarios and hence can provi…
SN 2018bsz: a Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material
M. Pursiainen, G. Leloudas, E. Paraskeva +26
We present a spectroscopic analysis of Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I), SN 2018bsz. While it closely resembles SLSNe-I, the multi-component H line appearing at …