Photometry of Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf with a Worldwide Citizen Science Network
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2023-07-28 v1
Abstract
We present highly sampled photometry of the supernova (SN) 2023ixf, a Type II SN in M101, beginning 2 days before its first known detection. To gather these data, we enlisted the global Unistellar Network of citizen scientists. These 252 observations from 115 telescopes show the SN's rising brightness associated with shock emergence followed by gradual decay. We measure a peak = -18.18 0.09 mag at 2023-05-25 21:37 UTC in agreement with previously published analyses.
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@article{arxiv.2307.14347,
title = {Photometry of Type II Supernova SN 2023ixf with a Worldwide Citizen Science Network},
author = {Lauren A. Sgro and Thomas M. Esposito and Guillaume Blaclard and Sebastian Gomez and Franck Marchis and Alexei V. Filippenko and Daniel O'Conner Peluso and Stephen S. Lawrence and Aad Verveen and Andreas Wagner and Anouchka Nardi and Barbara Wiart and Benjamin Mirwald and Bill Christensen and Bob Eramia and Bruce Parker and Bruno Guillet and Byungki Kim and Chelsey A. Logan and Christopher C. M. Kyba and Christopher Toulmin and Claudio G. Vantaggiato and Dana Adhis and Dave Gary and Dave Goodey and David Dickinson and David Koster and Davy Martin and Eliud Bonilla and Enner Chung and Eric Miny and Fabrice Mortecrette and Fadi Saibi and Francois O. Gagnon and François Simard and Gary Vacon and Georges Simard and Gerrit Dreise and Hiromi Funakoshi and Janet Vacon and James Yaniz and Jean-Charles Le Tarnec and Jean-Marie Laugier and Jennifer L. W. Siders and Jim Sweitzer and Jiri Dvoracek and John Archer and John Deitz and John K. Bradley and Keiichi Fukui and Kendra Sibbernsen and Kevin Borrot and Kevin Cross and Kevin Heider and Koichi Yamaguchi and Lea A. Hirsch and Liouba Leroux and Mario Billiani and Markus Lorber and Martin J. Smallen and Masao Shimizu and Masayoshi Nishimura and Matthew Ryno and Michael Cunningham and Michael Gagnon and Michael Primm and Michael Rushton and Michael Sibbernsen and Mike Mitchell and Neil Yoblonsky and Niniane Leroux and Olivier Clerget and Ozren Stojanović and Patrice Unique and Patrick Huth and Raymund John Ang and Regis Santoni and Robert Foster and Roberto Poggiali and Ruyi Xu and Ryuichi Kukita and Sanja Šćepanović and Sophie Saibi and Stefan Will and Stephan Latour and Stephen Haythornthwaite and Sylvain Cadieux and Thoralf Müller and Tze Yang Chung and Yoshiya Watanabe and Yvan Arnaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14347},
year = {2023}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure