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Many spiral galaxies have extended outer H~I disks and display low levels of star formation, inferred from the far-ultraviolet emission detected by {\it GALEX}, well beyond the optical radius. Here, we investigate the supernova (SN) rate in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Brennan Dell , Or Graur , Alexei Filippenko , Benjamin Lewis , Christopher McKee

Supernovae (SNe) discovered in high-redshift (z > 2) galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provide a unique opportunity to extend the Hubble-diagram beyond z~1.5 and constrain the cosmic Star Formation Rate in the early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Jozsef Vinko , Eniko Regos

IR and Radio band observations of heavily extinguished regions in starburst galaxies suggest a very high SN rate associated with such regions. Optically measured supernova (SN) rates may therefore underestimate the total SN rate by factors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruce Grossan , Earl Spillar , Robert Tripp , Norbert Pirzkal , Brian M. Sutin , Paul Johnson

Observations of high-redshift supernovae (SNe) open a novel opportunity to study the massive star population in the early Universe. We study the detectability of superluminous SNe with upcoming optical and near-infrared (NIR) surveys. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Masaomi Tanaka , Takashi J. Moriya , Naoki Yoshida , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Core-collapse SNe (CCSNe): Systematic searches of radio emission from CCSNe are still lacking, and only targeted searches of radio emission from just some of the optically discovered CCSNe in the local universe have been carried out.…

We characterize the local (2-kpc sized) environments of Type Ia, II, and Ib/c supernovae (SNe) that have recently occurred in nearby ($d\lesssim50$ Mpc) galaxies. Using ultraviolet (UV, from GALEX) and infrared (IR, from WISE) maps of 359…

Aims: Massive stars in low-metallicity environments may produce exotic explosions such as long-duration gamma-ray bursts and pair-instability supernovae when they die as core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). Here we determine the feasibility of…

We present a systematic study of mid-infrared (mid-IR) emission from 141 nearby supernovae (SNe) observed with the InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) on Spitzer.These SNe reside in one of the 190 galaxies within 20 Mpc drawn from the ongoing…

Large synoptic (repeated scan) imaging sky surveys are poised to observe enormous numbers of core-collapse supernovae. We quantify the discovery potential of upcoming projects, including DES, Pan-STARRS, and LSST. These surveys will map out…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Amy Lien , Brian D. Fields

There is a longstanding discrepancy between the observed Galactic classical nova rate of $\sim 10$ yr$^{-1}$ and the predicted rate from Galactic models of $\sim 30$--50 yr$^{-1}$. One explanation for this discrepancy is that many novae are…

We present Spitzer/MIPS 24 micron observations of 50 supernova host galaxies at 0.1<z<1.7 in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) fields. We also discuss the detection of SN host galaxies in SCUBA/850 micron observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Chary , M. E. Dickinson , H. I. Teplitz , A. Pope , S. Ravindranath

The volumetric rates and luminosity functions (LFs) of core-collapse supernovae (ccSN) and their subtypes are important for understanding the cosmic history of star formation and the buildup of ccSN products. To estimate these rates, we use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 T. Pessi , D. D. Desai , J. L. Prieto , C. S. Kochanek , B. J. Shappee , J. P. Anderson , J. F. Beacom , Subo Dong , K. Z. Stanek , T. A. Thompson

The Pan-STARRS (PS1) Medium Deep Survey discovered over 5,000 likely supernovae (SNe) but obtained spectral classifications for just 10% of its SN candidates. We measured spectroscopic host galaxy redshifts for 3,147 of these likely SNe and…

The evolution of dust at redshifts z>9, and consequently the dust properties, differs greatly from that in the local universe. In contrast to the local universe, core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are the only source of thermally-condensed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Eli Dwek , Johannes Staguhn , Richard G. Arendt , Attila Kovacs , Ting Su , Dominic J. Benford

The Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) rate is estimated at $\approx 1-3$ per century; however, no optically visible SN has been discovered in the past 400 years. Although records of the last optically detected SN (Cassiopeia A) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 Justin Vega , Kishalay De , Ashish Mahabal , Jacob E. Jencson , Viraj R. Karambelkar , Armin Rest , Megan Masterson

We model the distance, extinction, and magnitude probability distributions of a successful Galactic core-collapse supernova (ccSN), its shock breakout radiation, and its massive star progenitor. We find, at very high probability (~100%),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Scott M. Adams , C. S. Kochanek , John F. Beacom , Mark R. Vagins , K. Z. Stanek

Using observed star formation rates at redshifts up to z ~ 5, we calculate cosmic supernova rates for core collapse and Type Ia supernovae. Together with supernova statistics and detailed light curves, we estimate the number of supernovae,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomas Dahlen , Claes Fransson

Most of the observational studies of supernova (SN) explosions are limited to early phases (< a few yr after the explosion) of extragalactic SNe and observations of SN remnants (> 100 yr) in our Galaxy or very nearby galaxies. SNe at the…