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HOST-GALAXY PROPERTIES OF 32 LOW-REDSHIFT SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE FROM THE PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY by Perley, D. A., Quimby, R. M., Yan, L., Vreeswijk, P. M., Cia, A. De, Lunnan, R., Gal-Yam, A., Yaron, O., Filippenko, A. V., Graham, M. L., Laher, R., Nugent, P. E.

“…ABSTRACT We present ultraviolet through near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of the host galaxies of all superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) discovered by…”
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Far-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Spectroscopy of a Nearby Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova Gaia16apd by Yan, Lin, Quimby, R., Gal-Yam, A., Brown, P., Blagorodnova, N., Ofek, E. O., Lunnan, R., Cooke, J., Cenko, S. B., Jencson, J., Kasliwal, M.

“…We report the first maximum-light far-ultraviolet (FUV) to near-infrared (NIR) spectra (1000 − 1.62 m, rest) of a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova,…”
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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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Revisiting Optical Tidal Disruption Events with iPTF16axa by Hung, T., Gezari, S., Blagorodnova, N., Roth, N., Cenko, S. B., Kulkarni, S. R., Horesh, A., Arcavi, I., McCully, C., Yan, Lin, Lunnan, R., Fremling, C., Cao, Y., Nugent, P. E., Wozniak, P.

“…We report the discovery by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16axa at z = 0.108 and present its…”
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Results from a Systematic Survey of X-Ray Emission from Hydrogen-poor Superluminous SNe by Margutti, R., Chornock, R., Metzger, B. D., Coppejans, D. L., Guidorzi, C., Migliori, G., Milisavljevic, D., Berger, E., Nicholl, M., Zauderer, B. A., Lunnan, R., Kamble, A., Drout, M., Modjaz, M.

“…We present the results from a sensitive X-ray survey of 26 nearby hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) with Swift, Chandra, and XMM. This data set…”
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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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THE AFTERGLOW AND EARLY-TYPE HOST GALAXY OF THE SHORT GRB 150101B AT z = 0.1343 by Fong, W., Margutti, R., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Shappee, B. J., Levan, A. J., Tanvir, N. R., Smith, N., Milne, P. A., Laskar, T., Fox, D. B., Lunnan, R., Blanchard, P. K., Hjorth, J., Wiersema, K., van der Horst, A. J., Zaritsky, D.

“…ABSTRACT We present the discovery of the X-ray and optical afterglows of the short-duration GRB 150101B, pinpointing the event to an early-type host galaxy at…”
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X-Rays from the Location of the Double-humped Transient ASASSN-15lh by Margutti, R., Metzger, B. D., Chornock, R., Milisavljevic, D., Berger, E., Blanchard, P. K., Guidorzi, C., Migliori, G., Kamble, A., Lunnan, R., Nicholl, M., Coppejans, D. L., Dall'Osso, S., Drout, M. R., Perna, R., Sbarufatti, B.

“…We present the detection of persistent soft X-ray radiation with -1042 erg s-1 at the location of the extremely luminous, double-humped transient ASASSN-15lh…”
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Far-UV HST Spectroscopy of an Unusual Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova: SN2017egm by Yan, Lin, Perley, D. A., Cia, A. De, Quimby, R., Lunnan, R., Rubin, Kate H. R., Brown, P. J.

“…SN2017egm is the closest (z = 0.03) H-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) detected to date, and a rare example of an SLSN-I in a massive, metal-rich galaxy…”
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Two New Calcium-rich Gap Transients in Group and Cluster Environments by Lunnan, R., Kasliwal, M. M., Cao, Y., Hangard, L., Yaron, O., Parrent, J. T., McCully, C., Gal-Yam, A., Mulchaey, J. S., Ben-Ami, S., Filippenko, A. V., Fremling, C., Fruchter, A. S., Howell, D. A., Koda, J., Kupfer, T., Kulkarni, S. R., Laher, R., Masci, F., Nugent, P. E., Ofek, E. O., Yagi, M., Yan, Lin

“…We present the Palomar Transient Factory discoveries and the photometric and spectroscopic observations of PTF11kmb and PTF12bho. We show that both transients…”
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iPTF 16asu: A Luminous, Rapidly Evolving, and High-velocity Supernova by Whitesides, L., Lunnan, R., Kasliwal, M. M., Perley, D. A., Corsi, A., Cenko, S. B., Blagorodnova, N., Cao, Y., Cook, D. O., Doran, G. B., Frederiks, D. D., Fremling, C., Hurley, K., Karamehmetoglu, E., Kulkarni, S. R., Leloudas, G., Masci, F., Nugent, P. E., Ritter, A., Rubin, A., Savchenko, V., Sollerman, J., Svinkin, D. S., Taddia, F., Vreeswijk, P., Wozniak, P.

“…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…”
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The Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility Phase I Survey. II. Light-curve Modeling and Characterization of Undulations by Chen, Z. H., Yan, Lin, Kangas, T., Lunnan, R., Sollerman, J., Schulze, S., Perley, D. A., Chen, T.-W., Taggart, K., Hinds, K. R., Gal-Yam, A., Wang, X. F., De, K., Bellm, E., Bloom, J. S., Dekany, R., Graham, M., Kasliwal, M., Kulkarni, S., Laher, R., Neill, D., Rusholme, B.

“…Abstract We present analysis of the light curves (LCs) of 77 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe I) discovered during the Zwicky Transient Facility…”
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HYDROGEN-POOR SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AND LONG-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS HAVE SIMILAR HOST GALAXIES by Lunnan, R, CHORNOCK, R, Berger, E, Laskar, T, Fong, W, Rest, A, Sanders, N E, Challis, P M, Drout, M R, Foley, R J

“…We present optical spectroscopy and optical/near-IR photometry of 31 host galaxies of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), including 15 events from…”
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A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova that likely formed a compact neutron star binary by De, K, Kasliwal, M M, Ofek, E O, Moriya, T J, Burke, J, Cao, Y, Cenko, S B, Doran, G B, Duggan, G E, Fender, R P, Fransson, C, Gal-Yam, A, Horesh, A, Kulkarni, S R, Laher, R R, Lunnan, R, Manulis, I, Masci, F, Mazzali, P A, Nugent, P E, Perley, D A, Petrushevska, T, Piro, A L, Rumsey, C, Sollerman, J, Sullivan, M, Taddia, F

“…Compact neutron star binary systems are produced from binary massive stars through stellar evolution involving up to two supernova explosions. The final stages…”
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iPTF16fnl: A Faint and Fast Tidal Disruption Event in an E+A Galaxy by Blagorodnova, N., Gezari, S., Hung, T., Kulkarni, S. R., Cenko, S. B., Pasham, D. R., Yan, L., Arcavi, I., Ben-Ami, S., Bue, B. D., Cantwell, T., Cao, Y., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Fender, R., Fremling, C., Gal-Yam, A., Ho, A. Y. Q., Horesh, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kasliwal, M. M., Kong, A. K. H., Laher, R. R., Leloudas, G., Lunnan, R., Masci, F. J., Mooley, K., Neill, J. D., Nugent, P., Powell, M., Valeev, A. F., Vreeswijk, P. M., Walters, R., Wozniak, P.

“…We present ground-based and Swift observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory…”
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Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae with Late-time Hα Emission: Three Events From the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory by Yan, Lin, Lunnan, R., Perley, D. A., Gal-Yam, A., Yaron, O., Roy, R., Quimby, R., Sollerman, J., Fremling, C., Leloudas, G., Cenko, S. B., Vreeswijk, P., Graham, M. L., Howell, D. A., Cia, A. De, Ofek, E. O., Nugent, P., Kulkarni, S. R., Hosseinzadeh, G., Masci, F., McCully, C., Rebbapragada, U. D., Woźniak, P.

“…Abstract We present observations of two new hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSN-I), iPTF15esb and iPTF16bad, showing late-time H α emission with line…”
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A REVERSE SHOCK IN GRB 130427A by Laskar, T, Berger, E, Zauderer, B A, Margutti, R, Soderberg, A M, Chakraborti, S, Lunnan, R, CHORNOCK, R, Chandra, P, Ray, A

“…We present extensive radio and millimeter observations of the unusually bright GRB 130427A at z = 0.340, spanning 0.67-12 days after the burst. We combine…”
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TOWARD CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TYPE IIP SUPERNOVA PROGENITOR POPULATION: A STATISTICAL SAMPLE OF LIGHT CURVES FROM Pan-STARRS1 by Sanders, N. E., Soderberg, A. M., Gezari, S., Betancourt, M., Chornock, R., Berger, E., Foley, R. J., Challis, P., Drout, M., Kirshner, R. P., Lunnan, R., Marion, G. H., Margutti, R., McKinnon, R., Milisavljevic, D., Narayan, G., Rest, A., Kankare, E., Mattila, S., Smartt, S. J., Huber, M. E., Burgett, W. S., Draper, P.W., Hodapp, K. W., Kaiser, N., Kudritzki, R. P., Magnier, E. A., Metcalfe, N., Morgan, J. S., Price, P. A., Tonry, J. L., Wainscoat, R. J., Waters, C.

“…In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of…”
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An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events by Cowperthwaite, P. S., Berger, E., Rest, A., Chornock, R., Scolnic, D. M., Williams, P. K. G., Fong, W., Drout, M. R., Foley, R. J., Margutti, R., Lunnan, R., Metzger, B. D., Quataert, E.

“…We present an empirical study of contamination in wide-field optical follow-up searches of gravitational wave sources from Advanced LIGO/Virgo using dedicated…”
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Early Observations of the Type Ia Supernova iPTF 16abc: A Case of Interaction with Nearby, Unbound Material and/or Strong Ejecta Mixing by Miller, A. A., Cao, Y., Piro, A. L., Blagorodnova, N., Bue, B. D., Cenko, S. B., Dhawan, S., Ferretti, R., Fox, O. D., Fremling, C., Goobar, A., Howell, D. A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kasliwal, M. M., Laher, R. R., Lunnan, R., Masci, F. J., McCully, C., Nugent, P. E., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F., Kulkarni, S. R.

“…Early observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide a unique probe of their progenitor systems and explosion physics. Here we report the intermediate…”
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