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Superluminous supernovae are among the most energetic stellar explosions in the Universe, but their energy sources remain an open question. Here we present long-term observations of one of the closest examples of the hydrogen-poor subclass…

Typing the origin (i.e., Type Ia or core-collapse) of supernova remnants (SNRs) is crucial to determine the rates of supernova (SN) explosions in a galaxy, which is a key to understand its recent chemical evolution. However, evolved SNRs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Yoko Takeuchi , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Toru Tamagawa

Supernovae (SNe) that show evidence of strong shock interaction between their ejecta and pre-existing, slower circumstellar material (CSM) constitute an interesting, diverse, and still poorly understood category of explosive transients. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Nathan Smith

We present a new observational method to type the explosions of young supernova remnants (SNRs). By measuring the morphology of the Chandra X-ray line emission in seventeen Galactic and Large Magellanic Cloud SNRs with a multipole expansion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Laura A. Lopez , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Carles Badenes , Daniela Huppenkothen , Tesla E. Jeltema , David A. Pooley

We analyze recent magnetar light-curve modeling of 38 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), and find that the energies of the explosions themselves, that take place before the magnetar energy is released, are more than what the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Noam Soker , Avishai Gilkis

With the upcoming Vera C.~Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), it is expected that only $\sim 0.1\%$ of all transients will be classified spectroscopically. To conduct studies of rare transients, such as Type I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Brian Hsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

Observations of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) reveal a wealth of information about the dynamics of the supernova ejecta and its composition but very little direct information about the progenitor. Constraining properties of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Brandon L. Barker , Chelsea E. Harris , MacKenzie L. Warren , Evan P. O'Connor , Sean M. Couch

The properties of the first generation of stars and their supernova (SN) explosions remains unknown due to the lack of their actual observations. Recently many transient surveys are conducted and the feasibility of the detection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Alexey Tolstov , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Nozomu Tominaga , Miho Ishigaki , Sergey Blinnikov , Tomoharu Suzuki

SN 2008es is one of the rare cases of a Type II superluminous supernova (SLSN) showing no relatively narrow features in its early-time spectra, and therefore its powering mechanism is under debate between circumstellar interaction (CSI) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Kornpob Bhirombhakdi , Ryan Chornock , Adam A. Miller , Alexei V. Filippenko , S. Bradley Cenko , Nathan Smith

We study supernova (SN) classification using the machine learning method of the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope Ultra-Deep Field (CSST-UDF) photometric survey, and explore the improvement of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Dejia Zhou , Xuelei Chen

The properties of supernovae (SNe) are reviewed. It is shown that the observed characteristics of the morphological classes of SNe (types Ia, Ib/c, II) can be explained in terms of two basic explosion mechanisms, i.e. core collapse of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Nino Panagia

We use a simple analytical model to derive a closed form expression for the bolometric light-curve of super-luminus supernovae (SLSNe) powered by a plastic collision between the fast ejecta from core collapse supernovae (SNe) of types Ib/c…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-09 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

Using three magnified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) detected behind CLASH clusters, we perform a first pilot study to see whether standardizable candles can be used to calibrate cluster mass maps created from strong lensing observations. Such…

Observations of Gaia16apd revealed extremely luminous ultraviolet emission among superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). Using radiation hydrodynamics simulations we perform a comparison of UV light curves, color temperatures and photospheric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Alexey Tolstov , Andrey Zhiglo , Ken'ichi Nomoto , Elena Sorokina , Alexandra Kozyreva , Sergei Blinnikov

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are massive star explosions too luminous to be powered by traditional energy sources, such as radioactive 56Ni. These transients may instead be powered by a central engine, such as a millisecond pulsar or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Indrek Vurm , Brian D. Metzger

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a population of supernovae (SNe) whose peak luminosities are much larger than those of canonical SNe. Although SLSNe were simply defined by their peak luminosity at first, it is currently recognized that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-19 Takashi J. Moriya

A survey of Type II supernovae explosion models has been carried out to determine how their light curves and spectra vary with their mass, metallicity, and explosion energy. The presupernova models are taken from a recent survey of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Daniel Kasen , S. E. Woosley

Recent observations and statistical studies have revealed that a significant fraction of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) exhibit light curves that deviate from the smooth evolution predicted by the magnetar-powered model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Biao Zhang , Long Li , Zi-Gao Dai , Shu-Qing Zhong

Magnetar power is believed to be at the origin of numerous super-luminous supernovae (SNe) of Type Ic, arising from compact, hydrogen-deficient, Wolf-Rayet type stars. Here, we investigate the properties that magnetar power would have on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Luc Dessart , Edouard Audit