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    • Hsiao, E. Y.; Phillips, M. M.; Marion, G. H.; Kirshner, R. P.; Morrell, N.; Sand, D. J.; Burns, C. R.; Contreras, C.; Hoeflich, P.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Valenti, S.; Anderson, J. P.; Ashall, C.; Baltay, C.; Baron, E.; Banerjee, D. P.K.; Davis, S.; Diamond, T. R.; Folatelli, Gastón (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019)
      Shifting the focus of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) cosmology to the near infrared (NIR) is a promising way to significantly reduce the systematic errors, as the strategy minimizes our reliance on the empirical width-luminosity ...
    • Prentice, S. J.; Ashall, C.; James, P. A.; Short, L.; Mazzali, P. A.; Bersier, D.; Crowther, P. A.; Barbarino, C.; Chen, T.-W.; Copperwheat, C. M.; Darnley, M. J.; Denneau, L.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Fraser, M.; Galbany, Lluis; Gal-Yam, A.; Harmanen, J.; Howell, D. A.; Hosseinzadeh, G.; Inserra , C.; Kankare, E.; Karamehmetoglu, E.; Lamb , G. P.; Limongi, M.; Maguire , K.; McCully , C.; Olivares, F.; Piascik, A. S.; Pignata, G.; Reichart, D. E.; Rest, A.; Reynolds , T.; Rodríguez , O.; Saario, J. L. O.; Schulze, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Sollerman, J.; Stalder, B.; Sullivan, M.; Taddia, F.; Valenti, S.; Vergani, S. D.; Williams, S. C.; Young, D. R. (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      We present observations and analysis of 18 stripped-envelope supernovae observed during 2013-2018. This sample consists of five H/He-rich SNe, sixH-poor/He-rich SNe, three narrow lined SNe Ic, and four broad lined SNe Ic. ...
    • Polshaw, J.; Kotak, R.; Dessart, L.; Fraser, M.; Gal Yam, Avishay; Inserra, C.; Sim, S. A.; Smartt, S. J.; Sollerman, J.; Baltay, C.; Rabinowitz, D.; Benetti, S.; Botticella, M. T.; Campbell, H.; Chen, T. W.; Galbany, Lluis; McKinnon, R.; Nicholl, M.; Smith, K. W.; Sullivan, M.; Takáts, K.; Valenti, S.; Young, D. R. (ESO, 2016)
      We present optical imaging and spectroscopy of supernova (SN) LSQ13fn, a type II supernova with several hitherto-unseen properties. Although it initially showed strong symmetric spectral emission features attributable to ...
    • Smartt, S. J.; Valenti, S.; Fraser, M.; Inserra, C.; Young, D. R.; Sullivan, M.; Pastorello, A.; Benetti, S.; Gal-Yam, A.; Knapic, C.; Molinaro, M.; Smareglia, R.; Smith, K.W.; Taubenberger, S.; Yaron, O.; Anderson, J. P.; Ashall, C.; Balland, C.; Baltay, C.; Barbarino, C.; Bauer, Franz Erik; Baumont, S.; Bersier, D.; Blagorodnova, N.; Bongard, S.; Botticella, M.-T.; Bufano, F.; Bulla, M.; Cappellaro, E.; Campbell, H.; Cellier Holzem, F.; Chen, T. W.; Childress, M. J.; Clocchiatti, A.; Contreras, C.; Dall’Ora, M.; Danziger, J.; De Jaeger, Thomas; De Cia, A.; Della Valle, M.; Dennefeld, M.; Elias Rosa, N.; Elman, N.; Feindt, U.; Fleury, M.; Gall, E.; González Gaitán, Santiago; Galbany, Lluis; Morales Garoffolo, A.; Greggio, L.; Guillou, L. L.; Hachinger, S.; Hadjiyska, E.; Hage, P. E.; Hillebrandt, W.; Hodgkin, S.; Hsiao, E. Y.; James, P. A.; Jerkstrand, A.; Kangas, T.; Kankare, E.; Kotak, R.; Kromer, M.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Leloudas, G.; Lundqvist, P.; Lyman, J. D.; Hook, I. M.; Maguire, K.; Manulis, I.; Margheim, S.; Mattila, S.; Maund, J. R.; Mazzali, P.; McCrum, M.; McKinnon, R.; Moreno Raya, M. E.; Nicholl, M.; Nugent, P. E.; Pain, R.; Pignata Libralato, Giuliano; Phillips, M. M.; Polshaw, J.; Pumo, M. L.; Rabinowitz, D.; Reilly, E.; Romero Cañizales, C.; Scalzo, R.; Schmidt, B.; Schulze, Steve; Sim, S. A.; Sollerman, J.; Taddia, F.; Tartaglia, L.; Terreran, G.; Tomasella, L.; Turatto, M.; Walker, E.; Walton, N. A.; Wyrzykowski, L.; Yuan, F.; Zampieri, L. (EDP Sciences, 2015)
      Context. The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. PESSTO classifies transients from publicly available sources and ...
    • Li, W.; Wang, X.; Vinkó, J.; Mo, J.; Hosseinzadeh, G.; Sand, D. J.; Zhang, J.; Lin, H.; Zhang, T.; Wang, L.; Zhang, J.; Chen, Z.; Xiang, D.; Rui, L.; Huang, F.; Li, X.; Zhang, X.; Li, L.; Baron, E.; Derkacy, J. M.; Zhao, X.; Sai, H.; Zhang, K.; Wang, L.; Howell, D. A.; McCully, C.; Arcavi, I.; Valenti, S.; Hiramatsu, D.; Burke, J.; Rest, A.; Garnavich, P.; Tucker, B. E.; Narayan, G.; Shaya, E.; Margheim, S.; Zenteno, A.; Villar, A.; Dimitriadis, G.; Foley, R. J.; Pan, Y.-C.; Coulter, D. A.; Fox, O. D.; Jha, S. W.; Jones, D. O.; Kasen, N. D.; Kilpatrick, C. D.; Piro, A. L.; Riess, A. G.; Rojas Bravo, C.; Shappee, B. J.; Holoien, T. W.-S.; Stanek, K. Z.; Drout, M. R.; Auchettl, K.; Kochanek, C. S.; Brown, J. S.; Bose, S.; Bersier, D.; Brimacombe, J.; Chen, P.; Dong, S.; Holmbo, S.; Muñoz, J. A.; Mutel, R. L.; Post, R. S.; Prieto, J. L.; Shields, J.; Tallon, D.; Thompson, T. A.; Vallely, P. J.; Villanueva, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H. A.; Huber, M. E.; Magnier, E. A.; Waters, C. Z.; Schultz, A. S. B.; Bulger, J.; Lowe, T. B.; Willman, M.; Sárneczky, K.; Pál, A.; Wheeler, J. C.; Bódi, A.; Bognár, Zs.; Csák, B.; Cseh, B.; Csörnyei, G.; Hanyecz, O.; Ignácz, B.; Kalup, Cs.; Könyves-Tóth, R.; Kriskovics, L.; Ordasi, A.; Rajmon, I.; Sódor, A.; Szabó, R.; Szakáts, R.; Zsidi, G.; Milne, P.; Andrews, J. E.; Smith, N.; Bilinski, C.; Brown, P. J.; Nordin, J.; Williams, S. C.; Galbany, Lluis; Palmerio, J.; Hook, I. M.; Inserra, C.; Maguire, K.; Cartier, Régis; Razza, A.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Hermes, J. J.; Reding, J. S.; Kaiser, B. C.; Tonry, J. L.; Heinze, A. N.; Denneau, L.; Weiland, H.; Stalder, B.; Barentsen, G.; Dotson, J.; Barclay, T.; Gully-Santiago, M.; Hedges, C.; Cody, A. M.; Howell, S.; Coughlin, J.; Van Cleve, J. E.; Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso, J.; Larson, K. A.; McCalmont-Everton, K. M.; Peterson, C. A.; Ross, S. E.; Reedy, L. H.; Osborne, D.; McGinn, C.; Kohnert, L.; Migliorini, L.; Spencer, B.; Labonde, C.; Castillo, G.; Beerman, G.; Steward, K.; Hanley, M.; Larsen, R.; Gangopadhyay, R.; Kloetzel, R.; Weschler, T.; Nystrom, V.; Moffatt, J.; Redick, M.; Griest, K.; Packard, M.; Muszynski, M.; Kampmeier, J.; Bjella, R.; Flynn, S.; Elsaesser, B. (IOP Publishing, 2019)
      Supernova (SN) 2018oh (ASASSN-18bt) is the first spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observed in the Kepler field. The Kepler data revealed an excess emission in its early light curve, allowing us to place ...
    • Nicholl, M.; Berger, E.; Smartt, S. J.; Margutti, R.; Kamble, A.; Alexander, K. D.; Chen, T. W.; Inserra, C.; Arcavi, I.; Blanchard, P. K.; Cartier Ugarte, Regis; Chambers, K. C.; Childress, M. J.; Chornock, R.; Cowperthwaite, P. S.; Drout, M.; Flewelling, H. A.; Fraser, M.; Gal Yam, Avishay; Galbany, Lluis; Harmanen, J.; Holohien, T- W. -S; Hosseinzadeh, G.; Howell, D. A.; Huber, M. E.; Jerkstrand, A.; Kankare, E.; Kochanek, C. S. C. S.; Lin, Z. -Y.; Lunnan, R.; Magnier, E. A.; Maguire, K.; McCully, C.; McDonald, M.; Metzger, B. D.; Milisavljevic, D.; Mitra, A.; Reynolds, T.; Saario, J.; Shappee, B. J.; Smith, K. W.; Valenti, S.; Villar, V. A.; Waters, C.; Young, D. R. (IOP Publishing, 2016)
      We present observations of SN 2015bn (=PS15ae = CSS141223-113342+004332 = MLS150211-113342+004333), a Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift z = 0.1136. As well as being one of the closest SLSNe I yet discovered, ...
    • Maguire, K.; Sullivan, M.; Patat, F.; Gal-Yam, A.; Hook, I. M.; Dhawan, S.; Howell, D. A.; Mazzali, P.; Nugent, P. E.; Pan, Y. C.; Podsiadlowski, P.; Simon, J. D.; Sternberg, A.; Valenti, S.; Baltay, C.; Bersier, D.; Blagorodnova, N.; Chen, T. W.; Ellman, N.; Feindt, U.; Förster, Francisco; Fraser, M.; González Gaitán, Santiago; Graham, M. L.; Gutiérrez, C.; Hachinger, S.; Hadjiyska, E.; Inserra, C.; Knapic, C.; Laher, R. R.; Leloudas, G.; Margheim, S.; McKinnon, R.; Molinaro, M.; Morrell, N.; Ofek, E. O.; Rabinowitz, D.; Rest, A.; Sand, D.; Smareglia, R.; Smartt, S. J.; Taddia, F.; Walker, E. S.; Walton, N. A.; Young, D. R. (Oxford University Press, Royal Astronomical Society, 2013)
      A key tracer of the elusive progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is the detection of narrow blueshifted time-varying Na I D absorption lines, interpreted as evidence of circumstellar material surrounding the ...
    • Anderson, P.; Dessart, L.; Gutierrez, C.; Kruhler, T.; Galbany, Lluis; Jerkstrand, A.; Smartt, S.; Contreras, C.; Morrell, N.; Phillips, M.; Stritzinger, M.; Hsiao, E.; González Gaitán, Santiago; Agliozzo, C.; Castellon, Sergio; Chambers, K.; Chen, T.; Flewelling, H.; González, C.; Hosseinzadeh, G.; Huber, M.; Fraser, M.; Inserra, C.; Kankare, E.; Mattila, S.; Magnier, E.; Maguire, K.; Lowe, T.; Sollerman, J.; Sullivan, M.; Young, D.; Valenti, S. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07)
      Red supergiants have been confirmed as the progenitor stars of the majority of hydrogen-rich type II supernovae(1). However, while such stars are observed with masses > 25 M-circle dot (ref. (2)), detections of > 18 M-circle ...
    • Magee, M. R.; Kotak, R.; Sim, S. A.; Kromer, M.; Rabinowitz, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Baltay, C.; Campbell, H. C.; Chen, T. W.; Fink, M.; Gal Yam, Avishay; Galbany, Lluis; Hillebrandt, W.; Inserra, C.; Kankare, E.; Le Guillou, L.; Lyman, J. D.; Maguire, K.; Pakmor, R.; Ropke, F. K.; Ruiter, A. J.; Seitenzahl, I. R.; Sullivan, M.; Valenti, S.; Young, D. R. (EDP Sciences, 2016)
      We present results based on observations of SN 2015H which belongs to the small group of objects similar to SN 2002cx, otherwise known as type Iax supernovae. The availability of deep pre-explosion imaging allowed us to ...