Observational clues to the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

D Maoz, F Mannucci, G Nelemans - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important distance indicators, element factories, cosmic-ray
accelerators, kinetic-energy sources in galaxy evolution, and end points of stellar binary …

Type Ia Supernova Explosions in Binary Systems: A Review

ZW Liu, FK Röpke, Z Han - Research in Astronomy and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and
cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of white …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

An open catalog for supernova data

J Guillochon, J Parrent, LZ Kelley… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We present the Open Supernova Catalog, an online collection of observations and
metadata for presently 36,000+ supernovae and related candidates. The catalog is freely …

Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger

BJ Shappee, JD Simon, MR Drout, AL Piro, N Morrell… - Science, 2017 - science.org
On 17 August 2017, Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a) was discovered as the
optical counterpart of the binary neutron star gravitational wave event GW170817. We report …

WISeREP—an interactive supernova data repository

O Yaron, A Gal-Yam - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We have entered an era of massive data sets in astronomy. In particular, the number of
supernova (SN) discoveries and classifications has substantially increased over the years …

Shock cooling and possible precursor emission in the early light curve of the type II SN 2023ixf

G Hosseinzadeh, J Farah, M Shrestha… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the densely sampled early light curve of the Type II supernova (SN) 2023ixf, first
observed within hours of explosion in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101; 6.7 Mpc) …

Type Ia supernova distances at redshift> 1.5 from the Hubble space telescope multi-cycle treasury programs: the early expansion rate

AG Riess, SA Rodney, DM Scolnic… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Type Ia Supernova Distances at Redshift >1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-cycle
Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate - IOPscience This site uses cookies. By …

PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

SJ Smartt, S Valenti, M Fraser, C Inserra… - Astronomy & …, 2015 - aanda.org
Context. The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient
Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. PESSTO classifies …

Observational properties of thermonuclear supernovae

SW Jha, K Maguire, M Sullivan - Nature Astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
The explosive death of a star as a supernova is one of the most dramatic events in the
Universe. Supernovae have an outsized impact on many areas of astrophysics: they are …