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    • Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae; what are the implications for their progenitors? 
      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. ...
    • LSQ13fn: A type II-Plateau supernova with a possibly low metallicity progenitor that breaks the standardised ... 
      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 ...
    • PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey ... 
      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 ...
    • SN 2009jf: a slow-evolving stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova 
      Valenti, S.; Fraser, M.; Benetti, S.; Pignata Libralato, Giuliano; Sollerman, J.; Inserra, C.; Cappellaro, E.; Pastorello, A.; Smartt, S. J.; Ergon, M.; Botticella, M.-T.; Brimacombe, J.; Bufano, F.; Crockett, M.; Eder, I.; Fugazza, D.; Haislip, Joshua B.; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Harutyunyan, A.; Ivarsen, K. M.; Kankare, E.; Kotak, R.; LaCluyze, Aaron P.; Magill, L.; Mattila, S.; Maza Sancho, José; Mazzali, Paolo; Reichart, D. E.; Taubenberger, S.; Turatto, M.; Zampieri, L. (2011)
      We present an extensive set of photometric and spectroscopic data for SN 2009jf, a nearby Type Ib supernova (SN), spanning from∼20 d before B-band maximum to 1 yr after maximum. We show that SN 2009jf is a slowly evolving ...
    • SN 2015bn: a detailed multi-wavelength view of a nearbysuperluminous supernova 
      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, ...
    • SN 2016gsd: an unusually luminous and linear type II supernova with high velocities 
      Reynolds, T. M.; Fraser, M.; Mattila, S.; Ergon, M.; Lundqvist, P.; Dessart, L.; Dong, Subo; Elias Rosa, N.; Galbany, L.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Kangas, T.; Kankare, E.; Kotak, R.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Pastorello, A.; Rodríguez, O.; Smartt, S. J.; Stritzinger, M.; Tomasella, L.; Chen, Ping; Harmanen, J.; Hozzeinzadeh, G.; Howell, D. Andrew; Inserra, C.; Nicholl, M.; Nielsen, M.; Smith, K.; Somero, A.; Tronsgaard, R.; Young, D. R. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      We present observations of the unusually luminous Type II supernova (SN) 2016gsd. With a peak absolute magnitude of V = -19.95 +/- 0.08, this object is one of the brightest Type II SNe, and lies in the gap of magnitudes ...
    • A statistical analysis of circumstellar material in Type Ia supernovae 
      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 ...
    • The lowest-metallicity type II supernova from the highest-mass red supergiant progenitor 
      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 ...
    • The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole 
      Leloudas, G.; Fraser, M.; Stone, N. C.; Kuncarayakti, H. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
      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-circle dot) and a non-spinning black hole with a mass <10(8)M(circle dot), the tidal ...