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In the single degenerate (SD) scenario of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the collision of the ejecta with its companion results in stripping hydrogen rich matter from the companion star. This hydrogen rich matter might leave its trace in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Masamichi Kutsuna , Toshikazu Shigeyama

Stars with masses of 80 - 130 Msun can encounter the pulsational pair-instability at the end of their lives, which triggers consecutive episodes of explosive burning that eject multiple massive shells. Collisions between these shells…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-25 Ke-Jung Chen , Daniel J. Whalen , S. E. Woosley , Weiqun Zhang

We present observations and interpretation of the Type IIn supernova SN 2008am discovered by the ROTSE Supernova Verification Project (RSVP). SN 2008am peaked at approximately -22.3 mag at a redshift of z=0.2338, giving it a peak luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Chatzopoulos , J. Craig Wheeler , J. Vinko , R. Quimby , E. L. Robinson , A. A. Miller , R. J. Foley , D. A. Perley , F. Yuan , C. Akerlof , J. S. Bloom

Type I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a diverse class of exceptionally bright massive star explosions, which typically exhibit absorption from ionised oxygen in their early spectra. While their photometric properties (luminosity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-12 Matt Nicholl

SN 2006gy was the most luminous SN ever observed at the time of its discovery and the first of the newly defined class of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). The extraordinary energetics of SN 2006gy and all SLSNe (>10^51 erg) require either…

Novae, characterized by sudden brightening in binary star systems, are categorized into classical novae (CNe) and recurrent novae (RNe) based on their recurrence timescales. However, identifying RNe, which occur within 100 years, presents…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Rajarshi Barman , Nirupam Roy

We present the first neutron star merger simulations performed with the newly developed Numerical Relativity code SPHINCS_BSSN. This code evolves the spacetime on a mesh using the BSSN formulation, but matter is evolved via Lagrangian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 P. Diener , S. Rosswog , F. Torsello

We present optical and infrared spectroscopy of V1309 Sco, an object that erupted in 2008 in a stellar-merger event. During the outburst, V1309 Sco displayed characteristics typical of red transients, a class of objects similar to V838 Mon.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 Tomasz Kaminski , Elena Mason , Romulad Tylenda , Miroslaw R. Schmidt

The progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are debated, particularly the evolutionary state of the binary companion that donates mass to the exploding carbon-oxygen white dwarf. In previous work, we presented hydrodynamic models and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Chelsea E. Harris , Laura Chomiuk , Peter E. Nugent

We present the most comprehensive catalog to date of Type I Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe), a class of stripped envelope supernovae (SNe) characterized by exceptionally high luminosities. We have compiled a sample of 262 SLSNe reported…

Type Icn supernovae (SNe Icn) are a newly detected rare subtype of interacting stripped-envelope supernovae which show narrow P-Cygni lines of highly ionized carbon, oxygen, and neon in their early spectra due to the interactions of the SNe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Chengyuan Wu , Shuai Zha , Yongzhi Cai , Zhengyang Zhang , Yi Yang , Danfeng Xiang , Weili Lin , Xiaofeng Wang , Bo Wang

This study presented the first light curve analysis of the OP Boo and V0511 Cam binary stars, which was conducted in the frame of the Binary Systems of South and North (BSN) Project. Photometric ground-based observations were conducted with…

A class of optical transients known as Luminous Red Novae (LRNe) have recently been associated with mass ejections from binary stars undergoing common-envelope evolution. We use the population synthesis code COMPAS to explore the impact of…

An increasing number of so-called superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are discovered. It is believed that at least some of them with slowly fading light curves originate in stellar explosions induced by the pair instability mechanism. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-05 Alexandra Kozyreva , S. Blinnikov

Type Iax supernovae represent the largest class of peculiar white-dwarf supernovae. The type Iax SN~2012Z in NGC 1309 is the only white dwarf supernova with a detected progenitor system in pre-explosion observations. Deep \textit{Hubble…

Transient surveys have recently discovered a class of supernovae (SNe) with extremely rapidly declining light curves. These events are also often relatively faint, especially compared to Type Ia SNe. The common explanation for these events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Io Kleiser , Daniel Kasen

Recent observations indicate that hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae often display bumpy declining light curves. However, the cause of these undulations remains unclear. In this paper, we have improved the magnetar model, which includes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Xiao-Fei Dong , Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Sheng Yang

Supernovae (SNe) inject $\sim 10^{51}$ erg in the interstellar medium, thereby shocking and heating the gas. A substantial fraction of this energy is later lost via radiative cooling. We present a post-processing module for the FLASH code…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Ekaterina I. Makarenko , Stefanie Walch , Seamus D. Clarke , Daniel Seifried , Thorsten Naab , Pierre C. Nürnberger , Tim-Eric Rathjen

We compare parameters of well-observed type II SN1999em derived by M.Hamuy and D.Nadyozhin based on Litvinova-Nadyozhin (1985) analytic fits with those found from the simulations with our radiative hydro code Stella. The difference of SN…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Blinnikov , P. V. Baklanov , A. V. Kozyreva , E. I. Sorokina

V745 Sco is a Galactic symbiotic recurrent nova with nova eruptions in 1937, 1989 and 2014. We study the behavior of V745 Sco at radio wavelengths (0.6-37,GHz), covering both its 1989 and 2014 eruptions and informed by optical, X-ray, and…