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141. Light curves of 2 superluminous supernovae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Nat/491.228
Title:
Light curves of 2 superluminous supernovae
Short Name:
J/other/Nat/491.
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A rare class of 'superluminous' supernovae that are about ten or more times more luminous at their peaks than other types of luminous supernova has recently been found at low to intermediate redshifts. A small subset of these events have luminosities that evolve slowly and result in radiated energies of up to about 10<SUP>51</SUP>ergs. Therefore, they are probably examples of 'pair-instability' or 'pulsational pair-instability' supernovae with estimated progenitor masses of 100 to 250 times that of the Sun. These events are exceedingly rare at low redshift, but are expected to be more common at high redshift because the mass distribution of the earliest stars was probably skewed to high values. Here we report the detection of two superluminous supernovae, at redshifts of 2.05 and 3.90, that have slowly evolving light curves. We estimate the rate of events at redshifts of 2 and 4 to be approximately ten times higher than the rate at low redshift. The extreme luminosities of superluminous supernovae extend the redshift limit for supernova detection using present technology, previously 2.36, and provide a way of investigating the deaths of the first generation of stars to form after the Big Bang.
142. Light curves of 5 supernovae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/643/A35
Title:
Light curves of 5 supernovae
Short Name:
J/A+A/643/A35
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Rapid variability before and near the maximum brightness of supernovae has the potential to provide a better understanding of nearly every aspect of supernovae, from the physics of the explosion up to their progenitors and the circumstellar environment. Thanks to modern time-domain optical surveys, which are discovering supernovae in the early stage of their evolution, we have the unique opportunity to capture their intraday behavior before maximum. We present high-cadence photometric monitoring (on the order of seconds-minutes) of the optical light curves of three Type Ia and two Type II SNe over several nights before and near maximum light, using the fast imagers available on the 2.3m Aristarchos telescope at Helmos Observatory and the 1.2m telescope at Kryoneri Observatory in Greece. We applied differential aperture photometry techniques using optimal apertures and we present reconstructed light curves after implementing a seeing correction and the Trend Filtering Algorithm (TFA, Kovacs et al. 2005MNRAS.356..557K). TFA yielded the best results, achieving a typical precision between 0.01 and 0.04mag. We did not detect significant bumps with amplitudes greater than 0.05mag in any of the SNe targets in the VR-, R-, and I- bands light curves obtained. We measured the intraday slope for each light curve, which ranges between -0.37-0.36mag/d in broadband VR, -0.19-0.31mag/d in R band, and -0.13-0.10mag/d in I band. We used SNe light curve fitting templates for SN 2018gv, SN 2018hgc and SN 2018hhn to photometrically classify the light curves and to calculate the time of maximum. We provide values for the maximum of SN 2018zd after applying a low-order polynomial fit and SN 2018hhn for the first time. We conclude that optimal aperture photometry in combination with TFA provides the highest-precision light curves for SNe that are relatively well separated from the centers of their host galaxies. This work aims to inspire the use of ground-based, high-cadence and high-precision photometry to study SNe with the purpose of revealing clues and properties of the explosion environment of both core-collapse and Type Ia supernovae, the explosion mechanisms, binary star interaction and progenitor channels. We suggest monitoring early supernovae light curves in hotter (bluer) bands with a cadence of hours as a promising way of investigating the post-explosion photometric behavior of the progenitor stars.
143. Light curves of type Ia supernovae (CfA3)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/700/331
Title:
Light curves of type Ia supernovae (CfA3)
Short Name:
J/ApJ/700/331
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present multiband photometry of 185 type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), with over 11500 observations. These were acquired between 2001 and 2008 at the F. L. Whipple Observatory of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). This sample contains the largest number of homogeneously observed and reduced nearby SNe Ia (z<~0.08) published to date. It more than doubles the nearby sample, bringing SN Ia cosmology to the point where systematic uncertainties dominate. Our natural system photometry has a precision of <~0.02mag in BVRIr'i' and <~0.04 mag in U for points brighter than 17.5mag. We also estimate a systematic uncertainty of 0.03mag in our SN Ia standard system BVRIr'i' photometry and 0.07mag for U. Comparisons of our standard system photometry with published SN Ia light curves and comparison stars, where available for the same SN, reveal agreement at the level of a few hundredths mag in most cases. We find that 1991bg-like SNe Ia are sufficiently distinct from other SNe Ia in their color and light-curve-shape/luminosity relation that they should be treated separately in light-curve/distance fitter training samples.
144. Light curves of type Ia supernovae in SNLS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/523/A7
Title:
Light curves of type Ia supernovae in SNLS
Short Name:
J/A+A/523/A7
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present photometric properties and distance measurements of 252 high redshift Type Ia supernovae (0.15<z<1.1) discovered during the first three years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). These events were detected and their multi-colour light curves measured using the MegaPrime/MegaCam instrument at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), by repeatedly imaging four one-square degree fields in four bands. Follow-up spectroscopy was performed at the VLT, Gemini and Keck telescopes to confirm the nature of the supernovae and to measure their redshifts.
145. Light curves of 5 type IIn supernovae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/555/A10
Title:
Light curves of 5 type IIn supernovae
Short Name:
J/A+A/555/A10
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present optical (uBgVri) and near-infrared (YJHKs) photometry of Type IIn Supernovae 2005kj, 2006aa, 2006bo, 2006qq, 2008fq, obtained by the Carnege Supernova Project. We also report the magnitudes of the local sequence stars for each of the five supernovae.
146. Light curve templates of SNe Ib/c from SDSS
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/574/A60
Title:
Light curve templates of SNe Ib/c from SDSS
Short Name:
J/A+A/574/A60
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present optical (ugriz) light curve templates of supernovae Ib/c from the SDSS II SN survey.
147. Ligth curves of 4 supernovae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Nat/474.484
Title:
Ligth curves of 4 supernovae
Short Name:
J/other/Nat/474.
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Supernovae are stellar explosions driven by gravitational or thermonuclear energy that is observed as electromagnetic radiation emitted over weeks or more. In all known supernovae, this radiation comes from internal energy deposited in the outflowing ejecta by one or more of the following processes: radioactive decay of freshly synthesized elements (typically <SUP>56</SUP>Ni), the explosion shock in the envelope of a supergiant star, and interaction between the debris and slowly moving, hydrogen-rich circumstellar material. Here we report observations of a class of luminous supernovae whose properties cannot be explained by any of these processes. The class includes four new supernovae that we have discovered and two previously unexplained events (SN 2005ap and SCP 06F6) that we can now identify as members of the same class.
148. Linearity of the cosmic expansion field
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/714/1441
Title:
Linearity of the cosmic expansion field
Short Name:
J/ApJ/714/1441
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Particularly accurate relative distances are compiled and homogenized for (1) 246 Type Ia supernovae and 35 clusters with v<30000km/s, and (2) relatively nearby galaxies with 176 tip of the red-giant branch and 30 Cepheid distances. The 487 objects define a tight Hubble diagram from 300-30000km/s implying individual distance errors of <~7.5%. Here the velocities are corrected for Virgocentric steaming (locally 220km/s) and -if v_220_>3500km/s- for a 495km/s motion of the Local Supercluster toward the warm cosmic microwave background (CMB) pole at l=275, b=12; local peculiar motions are averaged out by large numbers.
149. Lists of arm and interarm supernovae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/459/3130
Title:
Lists of arm and interarm supernovae
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/459/3130
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Using a sample of 215 supernovae (SNe), we analyse their positions relative to the spiral arms of their host galaxies, distinguishing grand-design (GD) spirals from non-GD (NGD) galaxies. We find that: (1) in GD galaxies, an offset exists between the positions of Ia and core-collapse (CC) SNe relative to the peaks of arms, while in NGD galaxies the positions show no such shifts; (2) in GD galaxies, the positions of CC SNe relative to the peaks of arms are correlated with the radial distance from the galaxy nucleus. Inside (outside) the corotation radius, CC SNe are found closer to the inner (outer) edge. No such correlation is observed for SNe in NGD galaxies nor for SNe Ia in either galaxy class; (3) in GD galaxies, SNe Ibc occur closer to the leading edges of the arms than do SNe II, while in NGD galaxies they are more concentrated towards the peaks of arms. In both samples of hosts, the distributions of SNe Ia relative to the arms have broader wings. These observations suggest that shocks in spiral arms of GD galaxies trigger star formation in the leading edges of arms affecting the distributions of CC SNe (known to have short-lived progenitors). The closer locations of SNe Ibc versus SNe II relative to the leading edges of the arms supports the belief that SNe Ibc have more massive progenitors. SNe Ia having less massive and older progenitors, have more time to drift away from the leading edge of the spiral arms.
150. Local hosts of SNe Ia
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/707/1449
Title:
Local hosts of SNe Ia
Short Name:
J/ApJ/707/1449
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We use multi-wavelength, matched aperture, integrated photometry from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the RC3 to estimate the physical properties of 166 nearby galaxies hosting 168 well-observed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The ultraviolet (UV) imaging of local SN Ia hosts from GALEX allows a direct comparison with higher-redshift hosts measured at optical wavelengths that correspond to the rest-frame UV. Our data corroborate well-known features that have been seen in other SN Ia samples. Specifically, hosts with active star formation produce brighter and slower SNe Ia on average, and hosts with luminosity-weighted ages older than 1Gyr produce on average more faint, fast, and fewer bright, slow SNe Ia than younger hosts. New results include that in our sample, the faintest and fastest SNe Ia occur only in galaxies exceeding a stellar mass threshold of ~10^10^M_{sun}_, leading us to conclude that their progenitors must arise in populations that are older and/or more metal rich than the general SN Ia population.