The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. II. A public statistical sample for exploring supernova demographics

DA Perley, C Fremling, J Sollerman… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a public catalog of transients from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Bright
Transient Survey, a magnitude-limited (m< 19 mag in either the g or r filter) survey for …

Physics of radiation mediated shocks and its applications to GRBs, supernovae, and neutron star mergers

A Levinson, E Nakar - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The first electromagnetic signal observed in different types of cosmic explosions is released
upon emergence of a shock created in the explosion from the opaque envelope …

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 …

Precursors prior to type IIn supernova explosions are common: precursor rates, properties, and correlations

EO Ofek, M Sullivan, NJ Shaviv… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
There is a growing number of Type IIn supernovae (SNe) which present an outburst prior to
their presumably final explosion. These precursors may affect the SN display, and are likely …

Light curves of hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory

A De Cia, A Gal-Yam, A Rubin… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the light-curve properties of a sample of 26 spectroscopically confirmed
hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) in the Palomar Transient Factory …

ULTRASAT: A wide-field time-domain UV space telescope

Y Shvartzvald, E Waxman, A Gal-Yam… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be
launched to geostationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly …

Rapidly rising transients in the supernova—superluminous supernova gap

I Arcavi, WM Wolf, DA Howell, L Bildsten… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present observations of four rapidly rising (t rise≈ 10 days) transients with peak
luminosities between those of supernovae (SNe) and superluminous SNe (M peak≈− 20) …

Host-galaxy properties of 32 low-redshift superluminous supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory

DA Perley, RM Quimby, L Yan… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the host
galaxies of all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) discovered by the Palomar Transient …

Detection of broad Hα emission lines in the late-time spectra of a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova

L Yan, R Quimby, E Ofek, A Gal-Yam… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT iPTF13ehe is a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) at z= 0.3434,
with a slow-evolving light curve and spectral features similar to SN2007bi. It rises in 83–148 …

The rise-time of Type II supernovae

S González-Gaitán, N Tominaga… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the early-time light curves of a large sample of 223 Type II supernovae (SNe
II) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Supernova Legacy Survey. Having a cadence …