The most luminous supernovae

A Gal-Yam - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Over a decade ago, a group of supernova explosions with peak luminosities far exceeding
(often by> 100 times) those of normal events has been identified. These superluminous …

The Observer's Guide to the Gamma‐Ray Burst Supernova Connection

Z Cano, SQ Wang, ZG Dai, XF Wu - Advances in Astronomy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a detailed report of the connection between long‐duration gamma‐ray bursts
(GRBs) and their accompanying supernovae (SNe). The discussion presented here places …

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 …

Core-collapse supernovae from 9 to 120 solar masses based on neutrino-powered explosions

T Sukhbold, T Ertl, SE Woosley, JM Brown… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nucleosynthesis, light curves, explosion energies, and remnant masses are calculated for a
grid of supernovae (SNe) resulting from massive stars with solar metallicity and masses from …

The magnetar model for type I superluminous supernovae. I. Bayesian analysis of the full multicolor light-curve sample with MOSFiT

M Nicholl, J Guillochon, E Berger - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the new Modular Open Source Fitter for Transients to model 38 hydrogen-poor
superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). We fit their multicolor light curves with a magnetar spin …

The pan-starrs1 surveys

KC Chambers, EA Magnier, N Metcalfe… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Pan-STARRS1 has carried out a set of distinct synoptic imaging sky surveys including the
$3\pi $ Steradian Survey and the Medium Deep Survey in 5 bands ($ grizy_ {P1} $). The …

The impact of pair-instability mass loss on the binary black hole mass distribution

S Stevenson, M Sampson, J Powell… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A population of binary black hole mergers has now been observed in gravitational waves by
Advanced LIGO and Virgo. The masses of these black holes appear to show evidence for a …

The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

G Leloudas, M Fraser, NC Stone, S van Velzen… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn
apart1. For a star with the mass of the Sun (M⊙) and a non-spinning black hole with a …

Observational and physical classification of supernovae

A Gal-Yam - arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.09353, 2016 - arxiv.org
This chapter describes the current classification scheme of supernovae (SNe). This scheme
has evolved over many decades and now includes numerous SN Types and sub-types …

[图书][B] Supernova explosions

D Branch, JC Wheeler - 2017 - Springer
JCW had long wanted to write a new monograph on supernovae. Despite an immense
explosion in the literature and many review articles, there had not been one since that of …