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The Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations

Time domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational domains, including SNe within days or hours of explosion and faint, red…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 D. O. Jones , R. J. Foley , G. Narayan , J. Hjorth , M. E. Huber , P. D. Aleo , K. D. Alexander , C. R. Angus , K. Auchettl , V. F. Baldassare , S. H. Bruun , K. C. Chambers , D. Chatterjee , D. L. Coppejans , D. A. Coulter , L. DeMarchi , G. Dimitriadis , M. R. Drout , A. Engel , K. D. French , A. Gagliano , C. Gall , T. Hung , L. Izzo , W. V. Jacobson-Galán , C. D. Kilpatrick , H. Korhonen , R. Margutti , S. I. Raimundo , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , A. Rest , C. Rojas-Bravo , M. R. Siebert , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , G. Terreran , Q. Wang , R. Wojtak , A. Agnello , Z. Ansari , N. Arendse , A. Baldeschi , P. K. Blanchard , D. Brethauer , J. S. Bright , J. S. Brown , T. J. L. deBoer , S. A. Dodd , J. R. Fairlamb , C. Grillo , A. Hajela , C. Hede , A. N. Kolborg , J. A. P. Law-Smith , C. -C. Lin , E. A. Magnier , K. Malanchev , D. Matthews , B. Mockler , D. Muthukrishna , Y. -C. Pan , H. Pfister , D. K. Ramanah , S. Rest , A. Sarangi , S. L. Schrøder , C. Stauffer , M. C. Stroh , K. L. Taggart , S. Tinyanont , R. J. Wainscoat

iPTF16asu: A Luminous, Rapidly-Evolving, and High-Velocity Supernova

Wide-field surveys are discovering a growing number of rare transients whose physical origin is not yet well understood. Here, we present optical and UV data and analysis of iPTF16asu, a luminous, rapidly-evolving, high velocity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 L. Whitesides , R. Lunnan , M. M. Kasliwal , D. A. Perley , A. Corsi , S. B. Cenko , N. Blagorodnova , Y. Cao , D. O. Cook , G. B. Doran , D. D. Frederiks , C. Fremling , K. Hurley , E. Karamehmetoglu , S. R. Kulkarni , G. Leloudas , F. Masci , P. E. Nugent , A. Ritter , A. Rubin , V. Savchenko , J. Sollerman , D. S. Svinkin , F. Taddia , P. Vreeswijk , P. Wozniak

Expanding the High-z Supernova Frontier: "Wide-Area" JWST Discoveries from the First Two Years of COSMOS-Web

Transient astronomy in the early Universe (z > 2) remains largely unexplored, lying beyond the rest-frame optical spectroscopic reach of most current observatories. Yet this regime promises transformative insights, with high-redshift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-27 Ori D. Fox , Armin Rest , Justin D. R. Pierel , David A. Coulter , Caitlin M. Casey , Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe , Hollis B. Akins , Maximilien Franco , Mike Engesser , Conor Larison , Takashi J. Moriya , Robert M. Quimby , Marko Shuntov , Matthew R. Siebert , Christa DeCoursey , Rodrigo Angulo , James M. DerKacy , Nicole E. Drakos , Eiichi Egami , Steven L. Finkelstein , Carter Flayhart , Seiji Fujimoto , Estefania Padilla Gonzalez , Massimo Griggio , Santosh Harish , Olivier Ilbert , Kohei Inayoshi , Anton M. Koekemoer , Vasily Kokorev , Clotilde Laigle , Erini Lambrides , Rebecca L. Larson , Xiaolong Li , Daizhong Liu , Georgios E. Magdis , Jacqueline E. McCleary , Henry J. McCracken , Nicolas McMahon , Jed McKinney , Thomas Moore , Louise Paquereau , Jason Rhodes , Brant E. Robertson , David B. Sanders , Sogol Sanjaripour , Koji Shukawa , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Sune Toft , Qinan Wang , Robert E. Williams , Yossef Zenati

Fast Luminous Blue Transients from Newborn Black Holes

Newborn black holes in collapsing massive stars can be accompanied by a fallback disk. The accretion rate is typically super-Eddington and strong disk outflows are expected. Such outflows could be directly observed in some failed explosions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Kazumi Kashiyama , Eliot Quataert

The Host Galaxies of Rapidly Evolving Transients in the Dark Energy Survey

Rapidly evolving transients (RETs), also termed fast blue optical transients (FBOTs), are a distinct class of astrophysical event. They are characterised by lightcurves that decline much faster than common classes supernovae (SNe), span…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 P. Wiseman , M. Pursiainen , M. Childress , E. Swann , M. Smith , L. Galbany , C. Lidman , T. M. Davis , C. P. Gutiérrez , A. Möller , B. P. Thomas , C. Frohmaier , R. J. Foley , S. R. Hinton , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , G. F. Lewis , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Sullivan , M. Vincenzi , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , N. E. Sommer , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker

Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

Super-luminous supernovae that radiate more than 10^44 ergs per second at their peak luminosity have recently been discovered in faint galaxies at redshifts of 0.1-4. Some evolve slowly, resembling models of 'pair-instability' supernovae.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 M. Nicholl , S. J. Smartt , A. Jerkstrand , C. Inserra , M. McCrum , R. Kotak , M. Fraser , D. Wright , T. -W. Chen , K. Smith , D. R. Young , S. A. Sim , S. Valenti , D. A. Howell , F. Bresolin , R. P. Kudritzki , J. L. Tonry , M. E. Huber , A. Rest , A. Pastorello , L. Tomasella , E. Cappellaro , S. Benetti , S. Mattila , E. Kankare , T. Kangas , G. Leloudas , J. Sollerman , F. Taddia , E. Berger , R. Chornock , G. Narayan , C. W. Stubbs , R. J. Foley , R. Lunnan , A. Soderberg , N. Sanders , D. Milisavljevic , R. Margutti , R. P. Kirshner , N. Elias-Rosa , A. Morales-Garoffolo , S. Taubenberger , M. T. Botticella , S. Gezari , Y. Urata , S. Rodney , A. G. Riess , D. Scolnic , W. M. Wood-Vasey , W. S. Burgett , K. Chambers , H. A. Flewelling , E. A. Magnier , N. Kaiser , N. Metcalfe , J. Morgan , P. A. Price , W. Sweeney , C. Waters

Four (Super)luminous Supernovae from the First Months of the ZTF Survey

We present photometry and spectroscopy of four hydrogen-poor luminous supernovae discovered during the two-month science commissioning and early operations of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. Three of these objects, SN2018bym…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-29 R. Lunnan , Lin Yan , D. A. Perley , S. Schulze , K. Taggart , A. Gal-Yam , C. Fremling , M. T. Soumagnac , E. Ofek , S. M. Adams , C. Barbarino , E. C. Bellm , K. De , C. Fransson , S. Frederick , V. Z. Golkhou , M. J. Graham , N. Hallakoun , A. Y. Q. Ho , M. M. Kasliwal , S. Kaspi , S. R. Kulkarni , R. R. Laher , F. J. Masci , F. Pozo Nunez , B. Rusholme , R. M. Quimby , D. L. Shupe , J. Sollerman , F. Taddia , J. van Roestel , Y. Yang , Yuhan Yao

A Smart and Colorful Cadence for the LSST Wide Fast Deep Survey: Maximizing TDE Science

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are rare, 10^(-7)/yr/Mpc^3 (Hung et al. 2018), yet the large survey volume of LSST implies a very large detection rate of 200/yr/(1000 deg^2) (van Velzen et al. 2011), a factor of 250 increase in the detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Suvi Gezari , Sjoert van Velzen , Tiara Hung , Brad Cenko , Iair Arcavi

PS15cey and PS17cke: prospective candidates from the Pan-STARRS Search for Kilonovae

Time domain astronomy was revolutionised with the discovery of the first kilonova, AT2017gfo, in August 2017 which was associated with the gravitational wave signal GW170817. Since this event, numerous wide-field surveys have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Owen R. McBrien , Stephen J. Smartt , Mark E. Huber , Armin Rest , Ken C. Chambers , Claudio Barbieri , Mattia Bulla , Saurabh Jha , Mariusz Gromadzki , Shubham Srivastav , Ken W. Smith , David R. Young , Shaun McLaughlin , Cosimo Inserra , Matt Nicholl , Morgan Fraser , Kate Maguire , Ting-Wan Chen , Thomas Wevers , Joseph P. Anderson , Tomás E. Müller-Bravo , Felipe Olivares E. , Erkki Kankare , Avishay Gal-Yam , Christopher Waters

Observational properties of low redshift pair instability supernovae

So called superluminous supernovae have been recently discovered in the local Universe. It appears possible that some of them originate from stellar explosions induced by the pair instability mechanism. Recent stellar evolution models also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-27 A. Kozyreva , S. Blinnikov , N. Langer , S. -C. Yoon

Ultra-Luminous Supernovae as a New Probe of the Interstellar Medium in Distant Galaxies

We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery and light curves, and follow-up MMT and Gemini spectroscopy of an ultra-luminous supernova (ULSN; dubbed PS1-11bam) at a redshift of z=1.566 with a peak brightness of M_UV=-22.3 mag. PS1-11bam is one of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 E. Berger , R. Chornock , R. Lunnan , R. Foley , I. Czekala , A. Rest , C. Leibler , A. M. Soderberg , K. Roth , G. Narayan , M. E. Huber , D. Milisavljevic , N. E. Sanders , M. Drout , R. Margutti , R. P. Kirshner , G. H. Marion , P. J. Challis , A. G. Riess , S. J. Smartt , W. S. Burgett , J. N. Heasley , N. Kaiser , R. -P. Kudritzki , E. A. Magnier , M. McCrum , P. A. Price , K. Smith , J. L. Tonry , R. J. Wainscoat

SN 2017ens: The Metamorphosis of a Luminous Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova into an SN IIn

We present observations of supernova (SN) 2017ens, discovered by the ATLAS survey and identified as a hot blue object through the GREAT program. The redshift z=0.1086 implies a peak brightness of M_g=-21.1 mag, placing the object within the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-04 T. -W. Chen , C. Inserra , M. Fraser , T. J. Moriya , P. Schady , T. Schweyer , A. V. Filippenko , D. A. Perley , A. J. Ruiter , I. Seitenzahl , J. Sollerman , F. Taddia , J. P. Anderson , R. J. Foley , A. Jerkstrand , C. -C. Ngeow , Y. -C. Pan , A. Pastorello , S. Points , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , S. Taubenberger , P. Wiseman , D. R. Young , S. Benetti , M. Berton , F. Bufano , P. Clark , M. Della Valle , L. Galbany , A. Gal-Yam , M. Gromadzki , C. P. Gutiérrez , A. Heinze , E. Kankare , C. D. Kilpatrick , H. Kuncarayakti , G. Leloudas , Z. -Y. Lin , K. Maguire , P. Mazzali , O. McBrien , S. J. Prentice , A. Rau , A. Rest , M. R. Siebert , B. Stalder , J. L. Tonry , P. -C. Yu

AT2022aedm and a new class of luminous, fast-cooling transients in elliptical galaxies

We present the discovery and extensive follow-up of a remarkable fast-evolving optical transient, AT2022aedm, detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert Survey (ATLAS). AT2022aedm exhibited a rise time of $9\pm1$ days in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-22 M. Nicholl , S. Srivastav , M. D. Fulton , S. Gomez , M. E. Huber , S. R. Oates , P. Ramsden , L. Rhodes , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , A. Aamer , J. P. Anderson , F. E. Bauer , E. Berger , T. de Boer , K. C. Chambers , P. Charalampopoulos , T. -W. Chen , R. P. Fender , M. Fraser , H. Gao , D. A. Green , L. Galbany , B. P. Gompertz , M. Gromadzki , C. P. Gutiérrez , D. A. Howell , C. Inserra , P. G. Jonker , M. Kopsacheili , T. B. Lowe , E. A. Magnier , C. McCully , S. L. McGee , T. Moore , T. E. Müller-Bravo , M. Newsome , E. Padilla Gonzalez , C. Pellegrino , T. Pessi , M. Pursiainen , A. Rest , E. J. Ridley , B. J. Shappee , X. Sheng , G. P. Smith , G. Terreran , M. A. Tucker , J. Vinkó , R. J. Wainscoat , P. Wiseman , D. R. Young

The High Cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) - I. Survey design and supernova shock breakout constraints

We present the first results of the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS), a survey whose objective is to detect and follow up optical transients with characteristic timescales from hours to days, especially the earliest hours of supernova…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Francisco Förster , Juan C. Maureira , Jaime San Martín , Mario Hamuy , Jorge Martínez , Pablo Huijse , Guillermo Cabrera , Lluís Galbany , Thomas de Jaeger , Santiago González-Gaitán , Joseph P. Anderson , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Giuliano Pignata , Filomena Bufano , Jorge Littín , Felipe Olivares , Gustavo Medina , R. Chris Smith , A. Katherina Vivas , Pablo A. Estévez , Ricardo Muñoz , Eduardo Vera

Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational wave source GW150914

We searched for an optical counterpart to the first gravitational wave source discovered by LIGO (GW150914), using a combination of the Pan-STARRS1 wide-field telescope and the PESSTO spectroscopic follow-up programme. As the final LIGO sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 S. J. Smartt , K. C. Chambers , K. W. Smith , M. E. Huber , D. R. Young , E. Cappellaro , D. E. Wright , M. Coughlin , A. S. B. Schultz , L. Denneau , H. Flewelling , A. Heinze , E. A. Magnier , N. Primak , A. Rest , A. Sherstyuk , B. Stalder , C. W. Stubbs , J. Tonry , C. Waters , M. Willman , J. P. Anderson , C. Baltay , M. T. Botticella , H. Campbell , M. Dennefeld , T. -W. Chen , M. Della Valle , N. Elias-Rosa , M. Fraser , C. Inserra , E. Kankare , R. Kotak , T. Kupfer , J. Harmanen , L. Galbany , A. Gal-Yam , L. Le Guillou , J. D. Lyman , K. Maguire , A. Mitra , M. Nicholl , F. E Olivares , D. Rabinowitz , A. Razza , J. Sollerman , M. Smith , G. Terreran , S. Valenti , B. Gibson , T. Goggia

The Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe I: Systematic search for Calcium rich gap transients reveal three related spectroscopic sub-classes

(Abridged) Using the Zwicky Transient Facility alert stream, we are conducting a large campaign to spectroscopically classify all transients occurring in galaxies in the Census of the Local Universe (CLU) catalog. The aim of the experiment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Kishalay De , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Anastasios Tzanidakis , U. Christoffer Fremling , Scott Adams , Igor Andreoni , Ashot Bagdasaryan , Eric C. Bellm , Lars Bildsten , Christopher Cannella , David O. Cook , Alexandre Delacroix , Andrew Drake , Dmitry Duev , Alison Dugas , Sara Frederick , Avishay Gal-Yam , Daniel Goldstein , V. Zach Golkhou , Matthew J. Graham , David Hale , Matthew Hankins , George Helou , Anna Y. Q. Ho , Ido Irani , Jacob E. Jencson , Stephen Kaye , S. R. Kulkarni , Thomas Kupfer , Russ R. Laher , Robin Leadbeater , Ragnhild Lunnan , Frank J. Masci , Adam A. Miller , James D. Neill , Eran O. Ofek , Daniel A. Perley , Abigail Polin , Thomas A. Prince , Eliot Quataert , Dan Reiley , Reed L. Riddle , Ben Rusholme , Yashvi Sharma , David L. Shupe , Jesper Sollerman , Leonardo Tartaglia , Richard Walters , Lin Yan , Yuhan Yao

First Results from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey

We report on the results from the first six months of the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS). In order to search for optical transients with timescales of minutes to years, the CRTS analyses data from the Catalina Sky Survey which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. J. Drake , S. G. Djorgovski , A. Mahabal , E. Beshore , S. Larson , M. J. Graham , R. Williams , E. Christensen , M. Catelan , A. Boattini , A. Gibbs , R. Hill , R. Kowalski

WFST Supernovae in the First Year: II. SN 2024aedt: Systematical Study of a Transitional Type Ia Supernova

We present comprehensive photometric and spectroscopic observations of a transitional type Ia SN 2024aedt, discovered by the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) within one day of the explosion. Its light curve is characterized by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 Dezheng Meng , Ji-an Jiang , Xu Kong , Zelin Xu , Keiichi Maeda , Hanindyo Kuncarayakti , Lluís Galbany , Saurabh W. Jha , Željko Ivezić , Peter Yoachim , Weiyu Wu , Zhengyan Liu , Junhan Zhao , Andrew J. Connolly , Ziqing Jia , Lei Hu , Weiyu Ding , Lulu Fan , Feng Li , Ming Liang , Jinlong Tang , Zhen Wan , Hairen Wang , Jian Wang , Yongquan Xue , Hongfei Zhang , Wen Zhao , Xianzhong Zheng , Qingfeng Zhu

Magnetar Models of Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Exploring Redshift Evolution

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are luminous transients that can be detected to high redshifts with upcoming optical time-domain surveys such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). An interesting open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-16 Brian Hsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Edo Berger

Transients in the Local Universe

Two different reasons make the search for transients in the nearby Universe (d < 200 Mpc) interesting and urgent. First, there exists a large gap in the luminosity of the brightest novae (-10 mag) and that of sub-luminous supernovae (-16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-03 S. R. Kulkarni , M. M. Kasliwal