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SN 2019vxm: A Shocking Coincidence between Fermi and TESS
Zachary G. Lane, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Sofia Rest +37
Shock breakout and, in some cases, jet-driven high-energy emission are increasingly recognized as key signatures of the earliest phases of core-collapse supernovae, especially in T…
An Updated Detection Pipeline for Precursor Emission in Type II Supernova 2020tlf
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Sebastian Gonzalez, Shreyas Patel +34
We present a new photometric pipeline for the detection of pre-supernova (pre-SN) emission in the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) sky survey. The method described is applied to SN…
ATClean: A Novel Method for Detecting Low-Luminosity Transients and Application to Pre-explosion Counterparts from SN 2023ixf
S. Rest, A. Rest, C. D. Kilpatrick +16
In an effort to search for faint sources of emission over arbitrary timescales, we present a novel method for analyzing forced photometry light curves in difference imaging from op…
SpectAcLE: An Improved Method for Modeling Light Echo Spectra
Roee Partoush, Armin Rest, Jacob E. Jencson +17
Light echoes give us a unique perspective on the nature of supernovae and non-terminal stellar explosions. Spectroscopy of light echoes can reveal details on the kinematics of the…
A Phenomenon Resembling Early Superhumps in a New SU UMa-Type Dwarf Nova with a 2-Hour Orbital Period
Rebecca Boyle, Colin Littlefield, Peter Garnavich +4
We investigate K2BS5, an optical transient that we identified in Campaign 13 of the Kepler/K2 archives by the "K2 Background Survey", and classify it as a new SU UMa-type dwarf nov…
A Comprehensive Investigation of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Detected by TESS
Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Zachary G. Lane +9
Gamma-ray bursts produce afterglows that can be observed across the electromagnetic spectrum and can provide insight into the nature of their progenitors. While most telescopes tha…
Flight of the Bumblebee: the Early Excess Flux of Type Ia Supernova 2023bee revealed by , and Young Supernova Experiment Observations
Qinan Wang, Armin Rest, Georgios Dimitriadis +41
We present high-cadence ultraviolet through near-infrared observations of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2023bee in NGC~2708 ( Mpc), finding excess flux in the first d…
SN 2021zny: an early flux excess combined with late-time oxygen emission suggests a double white dwarf merger event
Georgios Dimitriadis, Kate Maguire, Viraj R. Karambelkar +28
We present a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the ultra-luminous and slowly evolving 03fg-like Type Ia SN 2021zny. Our observational campaign starts from hours a…
The optical light curve of GRB 221009A: the afterglow and the emerging supernova
M. D. Fulton, S. J. Smartt, L. Rhodes +46
We present extensive optical photometry of the afterglow of GRB~221009A. Our data cover \,days from the time of \textit{Swift} and \textit{Fermi} GRB detections. Photom…
A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…
Revealing the progenitor of SN 2021zby through analysis of the shock-cooling light curve
Qinan Wang, Patrick Armstrong, Yossef Zenati +34
We present early observations and analysis of the double-peaked Type IIb supernova (SN IIb) 2021zby. captured the prominent early shock cooling peak of SN 2021zby within the…
The Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1): Light Curves and Photometric Classification of 1975 Supernovae
P. D. Aleo, K. Malanchev, S. Sharief +80
We present the Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1), comprised of processed multi-color Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) griz and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) gr photometry of 1…
Perfecting our set of spectrophotometric standard DA white dwarfs
A. Calamida, T. Matheson, E. W. Olszewski +17
We verified for photometric stability a set of DA white dwarfs with Hubble Space Telescope magnitudes from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared and ground-based spectroscopy b…
Evidence for Extended Hydrogen-Poor CSM in the Three-Peaked Light Curve of Stripped Envelope Ib Supernova
Yossef Zenati, Qinan Wang, Alexey Bobrick +40
We present multi-band ATLAS photometry for SN 2019tsf, a stripped-envelope Type Ib supernova (SESN). The SN shows a triple-peaked light curve and a late (re-)brightening, making it…
The LCO Outbursting Objects Key Project: Overview and Year 1 Status
Tim Lister, Michael S. P. Kelley, Carrie E. Holt +32
The LCO Outbursting Objects Key (LOOK) Project uses the telescopes of the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) Network to: (1) to systematically monitor a sample of Dynamically New Comets…
The Circumstellar Environments of Double-Peaked, Calcium-strong Supernovae 2021gno and 2021inl
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Padma Venkatraman, Raffaella Margutti +42
We present panchromatic observations and modeling of calcium-strong supernovae (SNe) 2021gno in the star-forming host galaxy NGC 4165 (D = 30.5 Mpc) and 2021inl in the outskirts of…
TESSreduce: transient focused TESS data reduction pipeline
R. Ridden-Harper, A. Rest, R. Hounsell +3
Since its launch, TESS has provided high cadence observations for objects across the sky. Although high cadence TESS observations provide a unique possibility to study the rapid ti…
Progenitor and Close-In Circumstellar Medium of Type II Supernova 2020fqv from High-Cadence Photometry and Ultra-Rapid UV Spectroscopy
Samaporn Tinyanont, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Ryan Foley +35
We present observations of SN 2020fqv, a Virgo-cluster Type II core-collapse supernova (CCSN) with a high temporal resolution light curve from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satel…
Final Moments I: Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf
Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Luc Dessart, David Jones +33
We present panchromatic observations and modeling of supernova (SN) 2020tlf, the first normal type II-P/L SN with confirmed precursor emission, as detected by the Young Supernova E…
SN2017jgh - A high-cadence complete shock cooling lightcurve of a SN IIb with the Kepler telescope
P. Armstrong, B. E. Tucker, A. Rest +69
SN 2017jgh is a type IIb supernova discovered by Pan-STARRS during the C16/C17 campaigns of the Kepler/K2 mission. Here we present the Kepler/K2 and ground based observations of SN…
SN 2018agk: A Prototypical Type Ia Supernova with a Smooth Power-law Rise in Kepler (K2)
Qinan Wang, Armin Rest, Yossef Zenati +73
We present the 30-min cadence Kepler/K2 light curve of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2018agk, covering approximately one week before explosion, the full rise phase and the decli…
GRB 191016A: A Long Gamma-Ray Burst Detected by TESS
Krista Lynne Smith, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Michael Fausnaugh +8
The TESS exoplanet-hunting mission detected the rising and decaying optical afterglow of GRB 191016A, a long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by Swift-BAT but without prompt XRT or U…
A High-Cadence UV-Optical Telescope Suite On The Lunar South Pole
Scott W. Fleming, Thomas Barclay, Keaton J. Bell +14
We propose a suite of telescopes be deployed as part of the Artemis III human-crewed expedition to the lunar south pole, able to collect wide-field simultaneous far-ultraviolet (UV…
Discovery of a New WZ Sagittae Type Cataclysmic Variable in the Kepler/K2 Data
R. Ridden-Harper, B. E. Tucker, P. Garnavich +7
We identify a new, bright transient in the Kepler/K2 Campaign 11 field. Its light curve rises over seven magnitudes in a day and then declines three magnitudes over a month before…