Search Results - "Foley, R. J."

Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source by Coulter, D. A., Foley, R. J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Drout, M. R., Piro, A. L., Shappee, B. J., Siebert, M. R., Simon, J. D., Ulloa, N., Kasen, D., Madore, B. F., Murguia-Berthier, A., Pan, Y.-C., Prochaska, J. X., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C.

“…On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves (GWs) emanating…”
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Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints by Hounsell, R., Scolnic, D., Foley, R. J., Kessler, R., Miranda, V., Avelino, A., Bohlin, R. C., Filippenko, A. V., Frieman, J., Jha, S. W., Kelly, P. L., Kirshner, R. P., Mandel, K., Rest, A., Riess, A. G., Rodney, S. A., Strolger, L.

“…The Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) was the highest-ranked large space-based mission of the 2010 New Worlds, New Horizons decadal survey. It is…”
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Discovery and follow-up of ASASSN-19dj: an X-ray and UV luminous TDE in an extreme post-starburst galaxy by Hinkle, Jason T, Holoien, T W-S, Auchettl, K, Shappee, B J, Neustadt, J M M, Payne, A V, Brown, J S, Kochanek, C S, Stanek, K Z, Graham, M J, Tucker, M A, Do, A, Anderson, J P, Bose, S, Chen, P, Coulter, D A, Dimitriadis, G, Dong, Subo, Foley, R J, Huber, M E, Hung, T, Kilpatrick, C D, Pignata, G, Piro, A L, Rojas-Bravo, C, Siebert, M R, Stalder, B, Thompson, Todd A, Tonry, J L, Vallely, P J, Wisniewski, J P

“…ABSTRACT We present observations of ASASSN-19dj, a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the post-starburst galaxy KUG 0810+227 by the All-Sky…”
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COSMOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS FROM MEASUREMENTS OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE DISCOVERED DURING THE FIRST 1.5 yr OF THE Pan-STARRS1 SURVEY by Rest, A, SCOLNIC, D, Foley, R J, Huber, M E, CHORNOCK, R, Narayan, G, Tonry, J L, Berger, E, Soderberg, A M, Stubbs, C W

“…We present griz sub(P1) light curves of 146 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia; 0.03 < z < 0.65) discovered during the first 1.5 yr of the…”
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SALT3: An Improved Type Ia Supernova Model for Measuring Cosmic Distances by Kenworthy, W. D., Jones, D. O., Dai, M., Kessler, R., Scolnic, D., Brout, D., Siebert, M. R., Pierel, J. D. R., Dettman, K. G., Dimitriadis, G., Foley, R. J., Jha, S. W., Pan, Y.-C., Riess, A., Rodney, S., Rojas-Bravo, C.

“…Abstract A spectral-energy distribution (SED) model for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is a critical tool for measuring precise and accurate distances across a…”
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Photometric and spectroscopic properties of Type II-P supernovae by Faran, T., Poznanski, D., Filippenko, A. V., Chornock, R., Foley, R. J., Ganeshalingam, M., Leonard, D. C., Li, W., Modjaz, M., Nakar, E., Serduke, F. J. D., Silverman, J. M.

“…We study a sample of 23 Type II plateau supernovae (SNe II-P), all observed with the same set of instruments. Analysis of their photometric evolution confirms…”
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Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey by Lunnan, R., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Jones, D. O., Rest, A., Czekala, I., Dittmann, J., Drout, M. R., Foley, R. J., Fong, W., Kirshner, R. P., Laskar, T., Leibler, C. N., Margutti, R., Milisavljevic, D., Narayan, G., Pan, Y.-C., Riess, A. G., Roth, K. C., Sanders, N. E., Scolnic, D., Smartt, S. J., Smith, K. W., Chambers, K. C., Draper, P. W., Flewelling, H., Huber, M. E., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R. P., Magnier, E. A., Metcalfe, N., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C., Willman, M.

“…We present light curves and classification spectra of 17 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (PS1 MDS). Our…”
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SHORT GRB 130603B: DISCOVERY OF A JET BREAK IN THE OPTICAL AND RADIO AFTERGLOWS, AND A MYSTERIOUS LATE-TIME X-RAY EXCESS by Fong, W, Berger, E, Metzger, B D, Margutti, R, CHORNOCK, R, Migliori, G, Foley, R J, Zauderer, B A, Lunnan, R, Laskar, T

“…We present radio, optical/NIR, and X-ray observations of the afterglow of the short-duration Swift and Konus-Wind GRB 130603B, and uncover a break in the radio…”
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Cluster mass calibration at high redshift: HST weak lensing analysis of 13 distant galaxy clusters from the South Pole Telescope Sunyaev–Zel'dovich Survey by Schrabback, T, Applegate, D, Dietrich, J P, Hoekstra, H, Bocquet, S, Gonzalez, A H, von der Linden, A, McDonald, M, Morrison, C B, Raihan, S F, Allen, S W, Bayliss, M, Benson, B A, Bleem, L E, Chiu, I, Desai, S, Foley, R J, de Haan, T, High, F W, Hilbert, S, Mantz, A B, Massey, R, Mohr, J, Reichardt, C L, Saro, A, Simon, P, Stern, C, Stubbs, C W, Zenteno, A

“…Abstract We present an HST/Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) weak gravitational lensing analysis of 13 massive high-redshift (zmedian = 0.88) galaxy clusters…”
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The tidal disruption event AT2017eqx: spectroscopic evolution from hydrogen rich to poor suggests an atmosphere and outflow by Nicholl, M, Blanchard, P K, Berger, E, Gomez, S, Margutti, R, Alexander, K D, Guillochon, J, Leja, J, Chornock, R, Snios, B, Auchettl, K, Bruce, A G, Challis, P, D’Orazio, D J, Drout, M R, Eftekhari, T, Foley, R J, Graur, O, Kilpatrick, C D, Lawrence, A, Piro, A L, Rojas-Bravo, C, Ross, N P, Short, P, Smartt, S J, Smith, K W, Stalder, B

“…ABSTRACT We present and analyse a new tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2017eqx at redshift z = 0.1089, discovered by Pan-STARRS and ATLAS. The position of the…”
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Supernova Photometric Classification Pipelines Trained on Spectroscopically Classified Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey by Villar, V. A., Berger, E., Miller, G., Chornock, R., Rest, A., Jones, D. O., Drout, M. R., Foley, R. J., Kirshner, R., Lunnan, R., Magnier, E., Milisavljevic, D., Sanders, N., Scolnic, D.

“…Photometric classification of supernovae (SNe) is imperative as recent and upcoming optical time-domain surveys, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope…”
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An ultraviolet–optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core by Gezari, S., Chornock, R., Rest, A., Huber, M. E., Forster, K., Berger, E., Challis, P. J., Neill, J. D., Martin, D. C., Heckman, T., Lawrence, A., Norman, C., Narayan, G., Foley, R. J., Marion, G. H., Scolnic, D., Chomiuk, L., Soderberg, A., Smith, K., Kirshner, R. P., Riess, A. G., Smartt, S. J., Stubbs, C. W., Tonry, J. L., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Burgett, W. S., Chambers, K. C., Grav, T., Heasley, J. N., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R.-P., Magnier, E. A., Morgan, J. S., Price, P. A.

“…The observation of a flare of radiation from the centre of an inactive galaxy fits a model of the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core and its…”
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SN REFSDAL: PHOTOMETRY AND TIME DELAY MEASUREMENTS OF THE FIRST EINSTEIN CROSS SUPERNOVA by Rodney, S. A., Strolger, L.-G., Kelly, P. L., Brada, M., Brammer, G., Filippenko, A. V., Foley, R. J., Graur, O., Hjorth, J., Jha, S. W., McCully, C., Molino, A., Riess, A. G., Schmidt, K. B., Selsing, J., Sharon, K., Treu, T., Weiner, B. J., Zitrin, A.

“…ABSTRACT We present the first year of Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the unique supernova (SN) "Refsdal," a gravitationally lensed SN at z = 1.488 0.001…”
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A Spectroscopic Model of the Type Ia Supernova–Host-galaxy Mass Correlation from SALT3 by Jones, D. O., Kenworthy, W. D., Dai, M., Foley, R. J., Kessler, R., Pierel, J. D. R., Siebert, M. R.

“…Abstract The unknown cause of the correlation between Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) Hubble residuals and their host-galaxy masses (the “mass step”) may bias…”
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Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of Type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2 by Graur, O., Poznanski, D., Maoz, D., Yasuda, N., Totani, T., Fukugita, M., Filippenko, A. V., Foley, R. J., Silverman, J. M., Gal-Yam, A., Horesh, A., Jannuzi, B. T.

“…The Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate, when compared to the cosmic star formation history (SFH), can be used to derive the delay-time distribution (DTD; the…”
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The Type II-P Supernova 2019mhm and Constraints on its Progenitor System by Vazquez, J., Kilpatrick, C. D., Dimitriadis, G., Foley, R. J., Piro, A. L., Rest, A., Rojas-Bravo, C.

“…Abstract We present pre- and postexplosion observations of the Type II-P supernova (SN II-P) 2019mhm located in NGC 6753. Based on optical spectroscopy and…”
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Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion by Gal-Yam, A, Mazzali, P, Ofek, E. O, Nugent, P. E, Kulkarni, S. R, Kasliwal, M. M, Quimby, R. M, Filippenko, A. V, Cenko, S. B, Chornock, R, Waldman, R, Kasen, D, Sullivan, M, Beshore, E. C, Drake, A. J, Thomas, R. C, Bloom, J. S, Poznanski, D, Miller, A. A, Foley, R. J, Silverman, J. M, Arcavi, I, Ellis, R. S, Deng, J

“…Stars with initial masses such that 10 ≤ Minitial ≤ 100, where is the solar mass, fuse progressively heavier elements in their centres, until the core is inert…”
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A SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF TYPE Ibc SUPERNOVA HOST GALAXIES FROM UNTARGETED SURVEYS by SANDERS, N. E, SODERBERG, A. M, DITTMANN, J. A, LEVESQUE, E. M, FOLEY, R. J, CHORNOCK, R, MILISAVLJEVIC, D, MARGUTTI, R, BERGER, E, DROUT, M. R, CZEKALA, I

“…We present the first spectroscopic study of the host environments of Type Ibc supernovae (SNe Ibc) discovered exclusively by untargeted SN searches. Past…”
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A faint type of supernova from a white dwarf with a helium-rich companion by Perets, H. B, Gal-Yam, A, Mazzali, P. A, Arnett, D, Kagan, D, Filippenko, A. V, Li, W, Arcavi, I, Cenko, S. B, Fox, D. B, Leonard, D. C, Moon, D.-S, Sand, D. J, Soderberg, A. M, Anderson, J. P, James, P. A, Foley, R. J, Ganeshalingam, M, Ofek, E. O, Bildsten, L, Nelemans, G, Shen, K. J, Weinberg, N. N, Metzger, B. D, Piro, A. L, Quataert, E, Kiewe, M, Poznanski, D

“…Supernovae are thought to arise from two different physical processes. The cores of massive, short-lived stars undergo gravitational core collapse and…”
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The unexpected, long-lasting, UV rebrightening of the superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh by Godoy-Rivera, D, Stanek, K Z, Kochanek, C S, Chen, Ping, Dong, Subo, Prieto, J L, Shappee, B J, Jha, S W, Foley, R J, Pan, Y-C, Holoien, T W-S, Thompson, Todd A, Grupe, D, Beacom, J F

“…Given its peak luminosity and early-time spectra, ASASSN-15lh was classified as the most luminous supernova ever discovered. Here, we report a UV rebrightening…”
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