Browsing by Author "Contreras, C."

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    • Carnegie Supernova Project II: The Slowest Rising Type Ia Supernova LSQ14fmg and Clues to the Origin of ... 
      Hsiao, E. Y.; Hoeflich, P.; Ashall, C.; Lu, J.; Contreras, C.; Burns, C. R.; Phillips, M. M.; Galbany, L.; Anderson, J. P.; Baltay, C.; Baron, E.; Castellón, S.; Davis, S.; Freedman, Wendy L.; Gall, C.; González, C.; Graham, M. L.; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Holoien, T. W.-S.; Karamehmetoglu, E.; Krisciunas, K.; Kumar, S.; Kuncarayakti, H.; Morrell, N.; Moriya, T. J.; Nugent, P. E.; Perlmutter, S.; Persson, S. E.; Piro, A. L.; Rabinowitz, D.; Roth, M.; Shahbandeh, M.; Shappee, B. J.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Suntzeff, N. B.; Taddia, F.; Uddin, S. A. (IOP Publishing, 2020)
      The Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) LSQ14fmg exhibits exaggerated properties that may help to reveal the origin of the "super-Chandrasekhar" (or 03fg-like) group. The optical spectrum is typical of a 03fg-like SN Ia, but the ...
    • Carnegie Supernova Project: Observations of Type IIn supernovae 
      Taddia, F.; Stritzinger, M.; Sollerman, J.; Phillips, M. M.; Anderson, J. P.; Boldt, L.; Campillay, A.; Castellón, S.; Contreras, C.; Folatelli, Gastón; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Heinrich-Josties, E.; Krzeminski, W.; Morrell, N.; Burns, C.; Freedman, W.; Madore, B.; Persson, S.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B. (EDP Sciences, 2013-04-10)
      Aims. The observational diversity displayed by various Type IIn supernovae (SNe IIn) is explored and quantified. In doing so, a more coherent picture ascribing the variety of observed SNe IIn types to particular progenitor ...
    • Comprehensive observations of the bright and energetic Type lax SN 2012Z: Interpretation as a Chandrasekhar ... 
      Stritzinger, M.; Valenti, S.; Hoeflich, P.; Baron, E.; Phillips, M.; Taddia, F.; Foley, R.; Hsiao, Eric; Jha, S.; McCully, C.; Pandya, V.; Simon, J.; Benetti, S.; Brown, P.; Burns, C.; Campillay, A.; Contreras, C.; Förster Burón, Francisco; Holmbo, S.; Marion, G.; Morrell, N.; Pignata Libralato, Giuliano (EDP Sciences, 2015)
      We present ultraviolet through near-infrared (NIR) broadband photometry, and visual-wavelength and NIR spectroscopy of the Type lax supernova (SN) 2012Z. The data set consists of both early- and late-time observations, ...
    • Contrasting records from mantle to surface of Holocene lavas of two nearby arc volcanic complexes: ... 
      Morgado, E.; Parada, M. A.; Contreras, C.; Castruccio Álvarez, Angelo; Gutiérrez, F.; McGee, L. E. (Elsevier, 2015)
      Most of the small eruptive centers of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone are built over the Liquine-Ofqui Fault Zone (LOFZ), a NS strike-slip (>1000 km length) major structure, and close to large stratovolcanoes. This ...
    • A hubble diagram from TYPE II supernovae based solely on photometry: the photometric color method 
      De Jaeger, Thomas; González Gaitán, Sebastián; Anderson, J. P.; Galbany, Lluis; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Phillips, M. M.; Stritzinger, M.; Gutiérrez, C.; Bolt, L.; Burns, C.; Campillay, A.; Castellón, S.; Contreras, C.; Folatelli, Gastón; Freedman, W. L.; Hsiao, Eric; Krisciunas, K.; Krzeminski, W.; Kuncarayakti, Hanindyo; Morrell, N.; Olivares, F.; Persson, S.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B. (The American Astronomical Society, 2015-12-20)
      We present a Hubble diagram of SNe II using corrected magnitudes derived only from photometry, with no input of spectral information. We use a data set from the Carnegie Supernovae Project I for which optical and ...
    • Luminous Type II supernovae for their low expansion velocities 
      Rodríguez, Ó.; Pignata, G.; Anderson, J. P.; Moriya, T. J.; Clocchiatti, A.; Förster Burón, Francisco; Prieto, J.L.; Phillips, M. M.; Burns, C. R.; Contreras, C.; Folatelli, G.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Morrell, N. I.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Suntzeff, N. B.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; Elias Rosa, N.; Pastorello, A.; Turatto, M.; Maza Sancho, José María; Antezana, Roberto; Cartier, R.; González Muñoz, Luis; Haislip, J. B.; Kouprianov, V.; López, P.; Marchi Lasch, Sebastián; Reichart, D. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      We present optical and near-infrared data of three Type II supernovae (SNe II), SN 2008bm, SN 2009aj, and SN 2009au. These SNe display the following common characteristics: signs of early interaction of the ejecta with ...
    • Observed type II supernova colours from the carnegie supernova project-I 
      De Jaeger, Thomas; Anderson, J. P.; Galbany, Lluis; González Gaitán, Santiago; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Phillips, M. M.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Contreras, C.; Folatelli, Gastón; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Morrell, N.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B.; Dessart, L.; Filippenko, A. V. (Oxford University Press, 2018-06)
      We present a study of observed Type II supernova (SN II) colours using optical/near-infrared photometric data from the Carnegie Supernovae Project-I. We analyse four colours (B - V, u - g, g - r, and g - Y) and find that ...
    • Optical and near-IR observations of the faint and fast 2008ha-like supernova 2010ae 
      Stritzinger, M. D.; Hsiao, Eric; Valenti, S.; Taddia, F.; Rivera Thorsen, T. J.; Leloudas, G.; Maeda, K.; Pastorello, A.; Phillips, M. M.; Pignata Libralato, Giuliano; Baron, E.; Burns, C. R.; Contreras, C.; Folatelli, Gastón; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Höflich, P.; Morrell, N.; Prieto, J. L.; Benetti, S.; Campillay, A.; Haislip, Joshua B.; LaClutze, A. P.; Moore, J. P.; Reichart, D. E. (ESO, 2014)
      A comprehensive set of optical and near-infrared (NIR) photometry and spectroscopy is presented for the faint and fast 2008halike supernova (SN) 2010ae. Contingent on the adopted value of host extinction, SN 2010ae reached ...
    • SN 2011hs: a fast and faint Type IIb supernova from a supergiant progenitor 
      Bufano, Filomena; Pignata Libralato, Giuliano; Bersten, M.; Mazzali, Paolo; Ryder, S. D.; Margutti, R.; Milisavljevic, D.; Morelli, L.; Benetti, S.; Cappellaro, E.; González Gaitán, E.; Romero Canizales, C.; Stritzinger, M.; Walker, E. S.; Anderson, J. P.; Contreras, C.; De Jaeger, Thomas; Forster, Francisco; Gutiérrez, Claudia P.; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Hsiao, Eric; Morrell, N.; Olivares, F.; Paillas, E.; Parker, S.; Pian, E.; Pickering, T. E.; Sanders, N.; Stockdale, C.; Turatto, M.; Valenti, S.; Fesen, R. A.; Maza Sancho, José; Nomoto, K.; Phillips, M. M.; Soderberg, A. (Royal Astronomical Society, 2014)
      Observations spanning a large wavelength range, from X-ray to radio, of the Type IIb supernova (SN) 2011hs are presented, covering its evolution during the first year after explosion. The optical light curve presents a ...
    • SOAR/Goodman spectroscopic assessment of candidate counterparts of the LIGO/ Virgo event GW190814 
      Tucker, D. L.; Wiesner, M. P.; Allam, S. S.; Soares-Santos, M.; Bom, C. R.; Butner, M.; Garcia, A.; Morgan, R.; Olivares E., F.; Palmese, A.; Santana-Silva, L.; Shrivastava, A.; Annis, J.; García Bellido, J.; Gill, M. S. S.; Herner, K.; Kilpatrick, C. D.; Makler, M.; Sherman, N.; Amara, A.; Lin, H.; Smith, M.; Swann, E.; Arcavi, I.; Bachmann, T. G.; Bechtol, K.; Berlfein, F.; Briceño, C.; Brout, D.; Butler, R. E.; Cartier, R.; Casares, J.; Chen, H.-Y.; Conselice, C.; Contreras, C.; Cook, E.; Cooke, J.; Dage, K.; D’Andrea, C.; Davis, T. M.; De Carvalho, R.; Diehl, H. T.; Dietrich, J. P.; Doctor, Z.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Drout, M.; Farr, B.; Finley, D. A.; Fishbach, M.; Foley, R. J.; Forster Burón, Francisco; Fosalba, P.; Friedel, D.; Frieman, J.; Frohmaier, C.; Gruendl, R. A.; Hartley, W. G.; Hiramatsu, D.; Holz, D. E.; Howell, D. A.; Kawash, A.; Kessler, R.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lahav, O.; Lundgren, A.; Lundquist, M.; Malik, U.; Mann, A. W.; Marriner, J.; Marshall, J. L.; Martínez Vázquez, C. E.; McCully, C.; Menanteau, F.; Meza, N.; Narayan, G.; Neilsen, E.; Nicolaou, C.; Nichol, R.; Paz Chinchón, F.; Pereira, M. E. S.; Pineda, J.; Points, S.; Quirola Vásquez, J.; Rembold, S.; Rest, A.; Rodríguez, O; Romer, A. K.; Sako, M.; Salim, S.; Scolnic, D.; Smith, J. A.; Strader, J.; Sullivan, M.; Swanson, M. E. C.; Thomas, D.; Valenti, S.; Varga, T. N.; Walker, A. R.; Weller, J.; Wood, M. L.; Yanny, B.; Zenteno, A.; Aguena, M.; Andrade-Oliveira, F.; Bertin, E.; Brooks, D.; Burke, D. L.; Carnero Rosell, A.; Carrasco Kind, M.; Carretero, J.; Costanzi, M.; Da Costa, L. N.; De Vicente, J.; Desai, S.; Everett, S.; Ferrero, I.; Flaugher, B.; Gaztanaga, E.; Gerdes, D. W.; Gruen, D.; Gschwend, J.; Gutiérrez, G.; Hinton, S. R.; Hollowood, D. L.; Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Kuehn, K.; Miquel, R.; Ogando, R. L. C.; Pieres, A.; Plazas Malagón, A. A.; Rodríguez Monroy, M.; Sánchez, E.; Scarpine, V.; Schubnell, M.; Serrano, S.; Sevilla Noarbe, I.; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; To, C.; Zhang, Y. (IOP, 2022)
      On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for an optical counterpart of this event, ...
    • Strong near-infrared carbon in the Type Ia supernova iPTF13ebh 
      Hsiao, Eric; Burns, C.R.; Contreras, C.; Höflich, P.; Sand, D.; Marion, G.H.; Phillips, M. M.; Stritzinger, M.; González Gaitán, Santiago; Mason, R. E.; Folatelli, Gastón; Parent, E.; Gall, C.; Amanullah, R.; Anupama, G. C.; Arcavi, I.; Banerjee, D. P. K.; Beletsky, Y.; Blanc Mendiberri, Guillermo; Bloom, J. S.; Brown, P. J.; Campillay, A.; Cao, Y.; Cia, A. de; Diamond, T.; Freedman, W. L.; González, C.; Goobar, A.; Holmbo, S.; Howell, D. A.; Johansson, J.; Kasliwal, M. M.; Kirshner, R. P.; Krisciunas, K.; Kulkarni, S. R.; Maguire, K.; Milne, P. A.; Morrell, N.; Nugent, P. E.; Ofek, E. O.; Osip, D.; Palunas, P.; Perley, D. A.; Persson, S. E.; Piro, A. L.; Rabus, M.; Roth, M.; Schiefelbein, J. M.; Srivastav, S.; Sullivan, M.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B.; Surace, J.; Wózniak, P. R.; Yaron, O. (ESO, 2015)
      We present near-infrared (NIR) time-series spectroscopy, as well as complementary ultraviolet (UV), optical, and NIR data, of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) iPTF13ebh, which was discovered within two days from the estimated ...
    • Supernova 2008J: early time observations of a heavily reddened SN 2002ic-like transient 
      Taddia, F.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Phillips, M. M.; Burns, C. R.; Heinrich Josties, E.; Morrell, N.; Sollerman, J.; Valenti, S.; Anderson, J. P.; Boldt, L.; Campillay, A.; Castellón, S.; Contreras, C.; Folatelli, Gastón; Freedman, W. L.; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Krzeminski, W.; Leloudas, G.; Maeda, K.; Persson, S. E.; Roth, M.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B. (2012)
      Aims. We provide additional observational evidence that some Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) show signatures of circumstellar interaction (CSI) with hydrogen-rich material. Methods. Early phase optical and near-infrared (NIR) ...
    • Type II supernovae from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I I. Bolometric light curves of 74 SNe II using ... 
      Martínez, L.; Bersten, M. C.; Anderson, J. P.; Hamuy, M.; González Gaitán, S.; Stritzinger, M.; Phillips, M. M.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Burns, C.; Contreras, C.; De Jaeger, T.; Ertini, K.; Folatelli, G.; Forster Burón, Francisco; Galbany, L.; Hoeflich, P.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Morrell, N.; Orellana, M.; Pessi, P. J.; Suntzeff, N. B. (EDP Sciences, 2022)
      The present study is the first of a series of three papers where we characterise the type II supernovae (SNe II) from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I to understand their diversity in terms of progenitor and explosion ...
    • Type II supernovae from the Carnegie Supernova Project-I II. Physical parameter distributions from ... 
      Martínez, L.; Bersten, M. C.; Anderson, J. P.; Hamuy, M.; González Gaitán, S.; Forster Burón, Francisco; Orellana, M.; Stritzinger, M.; Phillips, M. M.; Gutiérrez, C. P.; Burns, C.; Contreras, C.; De Jaeger, T.; Ertini, K.; Folatelli, G.; Galbany, L.; Hoeflich, P.; Hsiao, E. Y.; Morrell, N.; Pessi, P. J.; Suntzeff, N. B. (EDP, 2022)
      Linking supernovae to their progenitors is a powerful method for furthering our understanding of the physical origin of their observed differences while at the same time testing stellar evolution theory. In this second ...
    • The underluminous Type Ia supernova 2005bl and the class of objects similar to SN 1991bg 
      Taubenberger, S.; Hachinger, S.; Pignata Libralato, Giuliano; Mazzali, Paolo; Contreras, C.; Valenti, S.; Pastorello, A.; Elias Rosa, L.; Bärnbantner, O.; Barwig, H.; Benetti, S.; Dolci, M.; Fliri, J.; Folatelli, Gastón; Freedman, W. L.; González, S.; Hamuy Wackenhut, Mario; Krzeminski, W.; Morrell, N.; Navasardyan, H.; Persson, S. E.; Phillips, M. M.; Ries, C.; Roth, M.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B.; Turatto, M.; Hillebrandt, W. (2008)
      Optical observations of the Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2005bl in NGC 4070, obtained from −6 to +66 d with respect to the B-band maximum, are presented. The photometric evolution is characterized by rapidly declining light ...