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Nearby Supernova Science in the Era of High Cadence, Deep Time Domain Surveys
David J. Sand, Bhagya Subrayan, Conor L. Ransome +41
We discuss science opportunities for nearby supernovae (SNe) in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), emphasizing the youngest phases o…
A JWST/MIRI Study of Dust in a Sample of Normal Type IIP Core Collapse Supernovae
Bhagya M. Subrayan, David J. Sand, Olivia Culbert +24
Core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are invoked as major dust producers in the early Universe, yet the amount of dust they form, the timescale over which it grows, and the physical co…
Ultraviolet to Infrared Spectroscopy of the Type Ibn SN 2023tsz Suggests a Lower-mass Progenitor
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Luc Dessart +42
Type Ibn supernovae are stripped-envelope explosions whose spectra indicate interaction with dense, helium-rich and hydrogen-poor circumstellar material (CSM), making them importan…
Evidence for Asymmetric Ejecta and Circumstellar Material in SN 2023ixf Inferred from Extensive Nebular-phase Observations
Brian Hsu, Nathan Smith, K. Azalee Bostroem +34
We present extensive optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the nearby Type II supernova (SN II) 2023ixf in the nebular phase from +89 days to +749 days after explosion, s…
JWST observations of SN 2024abup: First Detection of CO in a broad-lined Type Ic Supernova and Constraints on r-process Nucleosynthesis
Manisha Shrestha, Lindsey A. Kwok, David J. Sand +42
SN 2024abup is a nearby broad-lined Type Ic supernova (SN Ic-bl) in NGC 0681 at a distance of 23.3 \pm 1.6 Mpc. As energetic explosions of massive stars, SNe Ic-bl are considered a…
First Results from the LSST Shadow Survey: The Restless Luminous Blue Variable AT2017des in the Virgo-Cluster Galaxy, NGC4532
Conor L. Ransome, Bhagya M. Subrayan, David J. Sand +66
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start in late-summer 2026, revolutionizing transient astronomy. Here, we present the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) Shadow Survey, which…
Search For a Counterpart to the Subsolar Mass Gravitational Wave Candidate S251112cm
Nicholas Vieira, Noah Franz, Bhagya Subrayan +49
The recent candidate gravitational-wave (GW) alert from a compact object merger involving at least one subsolar mass (SSM) object has prompted questions about their origins. S25111…
Spectropolarimetric Evolution of SN 2023ixf: an Asymmetric Explosion in a Confined Aspherical Circumstellar Medium
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Luc Dessart, Yi Yang +15
We present complete spectropolarimetric coverage of the Type II supernova (SN) 2023ixf ranging from 1 to 120 days after explosion. Polarimetry was obtained with the Kast double spe…
Spectropolarimetric modeling of interacting Type II supernovae. Application to early-time observations of SN1998S
Luc Dessart, Douglas C. Leonard, Sergiy S. Vasylyev +1
High-cadence surveys of the sky are revealing that a large fraction of red-supergiant (RSG) stars, which are progenitors of Type II-Plateau (II-P) supernovae (SNe), explode within…
A Snapshot Survey of Nearby Supernovae with the Hubble Space Telescope
Raphael Baer-Way, Asia DeGraw, Weikang Zheng +12
Over recent decades, robotic (or highly automated) searches for supernovae (SNe) have discovered several thousand events, many of them in quite nearby galaxies (distances < 30 Mpc)…
Resolving the explosion of supernova 2023ixf in Messier 101 within its complex circumstellar environment
E. A. Zimmerman, I. Irani, P. Chen +54
Observing a supernova explosion shortly after it occurs can reveal important information about the physics of stellar explosions and the nature of the progenitor stars of supernova…
Early-time Spectropolarimetry of the Aspherical Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Yi Yang, Alexei V. Filippenko +13
We present six epochs of optical spectropolarimetry of the Type II supernova (SN) 2023ixf ranging from 2 to 15 days after the explosion. Polarimetry was obtained with the Ka…
Spectropolarimetry of the type IIP supernova 2021yja: an unusually high continuum polarization during the photospheric phase
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Yi Yang, Kishore C. Patra +9
We present six epochs of optical spectropolarimetry of the Type IIP supernova (SN) 2021yja ranging from 25 to 95 days after the explosion. An unusually high continuum linear…
The disappearances of six supernova progenitors
Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Asia de Graw, Raphael Baer-Way +8
As part of a larger completed Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Snapshot program, we observed the sites of six nearby core-collapse supernovae (SNe) at high spatial resolution: SN 2012A…
SN 2022oqm -- a Ca-rich explosion of a compact progenitor embedded in C/O circumstellar material
I. Irani, Ping Chen, Jonathan Morag +27
We present the discovery and analysis of SN\,2022oqm, a Type Ic supernova (SN) detected \,day after explosion. The SN rises to a blue and short-lived (2\,days) initial peak. Ea…
Spectropolarimetry of the Thermonuclear Supernova 2021rhu: High Calcium Polarization 79 Days After Peak Luminosity
Yi Yang, Huirong Yan, Lifan Wang +19
We report spectropolarimetric observations of the Type Ia supernova (SN) 2021rhu at four epochs: 7, +0, +36, and +79 days relative to its -band maximum luminosity. A waveleng…
Spectropolarimetry of the tidal disruption event AT 2019qiz: a quasispherical reprocessing layer
Kishore C. Patra, Wenbin Lu, Thomas G. Brink +3
We present optical spectropolarimetry of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2019qiz on days and relative to maximum brightness. Continuum polarization, which informs th…
Early-Time Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Optical Follow-up Observations of the Type IIP Supernova 2021yja
Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Alexei V. Filippenko, Christian Vogl +19
We present three epochs of early-time ultraviolet (UV) and optical HST/STIS spectroscopy of the young, nearby Type IIP supernova (SN) 2021yja. We complement the HST data with two e…
The Gravity Collective: A Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger GW190814
Charles D. Kilpatrick, David A. Coulter, Iair Arcavi +79
We present optical follow-up imaging obtained with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Nickel Telescope, Swope Telescope, and…
Optical emission from a kilonova following a gravitational-wave-detected neutron-star merger
Iair Arcavi, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, D. Andrew Howell +8
The merger of two neutron stars has been predicted to produce an optical-infrared transient (lasting a few days) known as a 'kilonova', powered by the radioactive decay of neutron-…
Optical Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Events with Las Cumbres Observatory
Iair Arcavi, Curtis McCully, Griffin Hosseinzadeh +11
We present an implementation of the Gehrels et al. (2016) galaxy-targeted strategy for gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telesco…