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The extent of envelope stripping in the progenitor stars is directly reflected in the diversity of spectral features observed in stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe). Through extensive spectral observation and analysis, we aim to clarify…

In this Letter we present evidence for a spectral sequence among Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The sequence is based on the systematic variation of several features seen in the near-maximum light spectrum. This sequence is analogous to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Peter Nugent , Mark Phillips , E. Baron , David Branch , Peter Hauschildt

We present 39 nights of optical photometry, 34 nights of infrared photometry, and 4 nights of optical spectroscopy of the Type Ia SN 1999ac. This supernova was discovered two weeks before maximum light, and observations were begun shortly…

The Hubble diagrams in B, V, and I of a complete sample of 35 SNeIa with (B-V) < 0.06 and 1200 < v < 30000 kms^{-1} have a scatter of only 0.1 mag, after small corrections are applied for differences in decline rate Delta m_{15} and color…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Tammann , A. Sandage , A. Saha

There is a wide consensus that type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) originate from the thermonuclear explosion of CO white dwarfs (WD), with the lack of hydrogen in the observed spectra as a distinctive feature. Here, we present SN 2016jae, which was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 N. Elias-Rosa , P. Chen , S. Benetti , Subo Dong , J. L. Prieto , E. Cappellaro , J. A. Kollmeier , N. Morrell , A. L. Piro , M. M. Phillips

We present ultraviolet and optical light curves in six broadband filters and grism spectra obtained by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope for the Type Ia supernova SN2005am. The data were collected beginning about four days before the…

The Calan/Tololo supernova survey has discovered ~30 Type Ia supernovae out to z~0.1. Using BVI data for these objects and nearby SNe Ia, we have shown that there exists a significant dispersion in the intrinsic luminosities of these…

Type Ia Supernovae are in many aspects still enigmatic objects. Recent years have witnessed a bonanza of supernova observations. The increased samples from dedicated searches have allowed the statistical investigation of Type Ia Supernovae…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruno Leibundgut

Key information about the progenitor system and the explosion mechanism of Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) can be obtained from early observations, within a few days from explosion. iPTF16abc was discovered as a young SN~Ia with excellent early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 S. Dhawan , M. Bulla , A. Goobar , R. Lunnan , J. Johansson , C. Fransson , S. R. Kulkarni , S. Papadogiannakis , A. A. Miller

Producing stable $^{58}$Ni in Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) requires sufficiently high density conditions that are not predicted for all origin scenarios, so examining the distribution of $^{58}$Ni using the NIR [Ni II] 1.939 $\mu$m line may…

We present in this paper a focusing gamma-ray telescope that has only one goal: addressing the true nature of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). This telescope is based on a Laue lens focusing a 100-keV wide energy band centered on 847 keV, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Nicolas M. Barrière , John A Tomsick , Steven E. Boggs , Peter von Ballmoos , Julien Rousselle

Spectropolarimetry provides a unique probe of ejecta asphericities, offering direct insights into the underlying explosion physics of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We analyze the statistical properties of pre-maximum spectropolarimetric data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Aleksandar Cikota , Peter Hoeflich , Dietrich Baade , Ferdinando Patat , Lifan Wang , J. Craig Wheeler , Yi Yang , Elham Fereidouni , Divya Mishra

In this paper, we present photometric and spectroscopic observations of a subluminous type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2012ij, which has an absolute $B$-band peak magnitude $M_{B,\rm{max}}$ = $-$17.95 $\pm$ 0.15 mag. The $B$-band light curve…

We investigate a new empirical fitting method for the optical light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) that is able to estimate the first-light time of SNe~Ia, even when they are not discovered extremely early. With an improved ability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 WeiKang Zheng , Patrick L. Kelly , Alexei V. Filippenko

We create new U, B, V, R and I-band light curve templates of type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) and re-analyze 122 nearby (redshift < 0.11) SNe Ia using a new ``Multi-band Stretch method,'' which is a revised Stretch method (cf. Perlmutter et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Takanashi , M. Doi , N. Yasuda

We present the results of a novel new search of the first data-release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR1) for the spectra of supernovae. The use of large spectroscopic galaxy surveys offers the prospect of obtaining improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Darren S. Madgwick , Paul Hewett , Daniel Mortlock , Lifan Wang

We have compiled a sample of 45 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) and the Beijing Astronomical Observatory Supernova Survey (BAOSS), and determined the rate of spectroscopically peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Weidong Li , Alexei V. Filippenko , R. R. Treffers , A. G. Riess , Jingyao Hu , Y. L. Qiu

In response to a recently reported observation of evidence for two classes of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) distinguished by their brightness in the rest-frame near ultraviolet (NUV), we search for the phenomenon in publicly available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 David Cinabro , Daniel Scolnic , Richard Kessler , Ashley Li , Jake Miller

We examine the absolute luminosities of 29 SNe Ia in the Calan/Tololo survey. We confirm a relation between the peak luminosity of the SNe and the decline rate as measured by the light curve, as suggested by Phillips (1993). We derive…