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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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LONG-DURATION SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AT LATE TIMES by Jerkstrand, A., Smartt, S. J., Inserra, C., Nicholl, M., Chen, T.-W., Krühler, T., Sollerman, J., Taubenberger, S., Gal-Yam, A., Kankare, E., Maguire, K., Fraser, M., Valenti, S., Sullivan, M., Cartier, R., Young, D. R.

“…ABSTRACT Nebular-phase observations and spectral models of Type Ic superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are presented. LSQ14an and SN 2015bn both display late-time…”
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FLASH SPECTROSCOPY: EMISSION LINES FROM THE IONIZED CIRCUMSTELLAR MATERIAL AROUND <10-DAY-OLD TYPE II SUPERNOVAE by Khazov, D., Yaron, O., Gal-Yam, A., Manulis, I., Rubin, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Arcavi, I., Kasliwal, M. M., Ofek, E. O., Cao, Y., Perley, D., Sollerman, J., Horesh, A., Sullivan, M., Filippenko, A. V., Nugent, P. E., Howell, D. A., Cenko, S. B., Silverman, J. M., Ebeling, H., Taddia, F., Johansson, J., Laher, R. R., Surace, J., Rebbapragada, U. D., Wozniak, P. R., Matheson, T.

“…ABSTRACT Supernovae (SNe) embedded in dense circumstellar material (CSM) may show prominent emission lines in their early-time spectra (≤10 days after the…”
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A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl by Gal-Yam, A, Leonard, D. C

“…Our understanding of the evolution of massive stars before their final explosions as supernovae is incomplete, from both an observational and a theoretical…”
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From core collapse to superluminous: the rates of massive stellar explosions from the Palomar Transient Factory by Frohmaier, C, Angus, C R, Vincenzi, M, Sullivan, M, Smith, M, Nugent, P E, Cenko, S B, Gal-Yam, A, Kulkarni, S R, Law, N M, Quimby, R M

“…ABSTRACT We present measurements of the local core-collapse supernova (CCSN) rate using SN discoveries from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). We use a Monte…”
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Light Curves of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory by De Cia, Annalisa, Gal-Yam, A., Rubin, A., Leloudas, G., Vreeswijk, P., Perley, D. A., Quimby, R., Yan, Lin, Sullivan, M., Flörs, A., Sollerman, J., Bersier, D., Cenko, S. B., Gal-Yam, M., Maguire, K., Ofek, E. O., Prentice, S., Schulze, S., Spyromilio, J., Valenti, S., Arcavi, I., Corsi, A., Howell, D. A., Mazzali, P., Kasliwal, M. M., Taddia, F., Yaron, O.

“…We investigate the light-curve properties of a sample of 26 spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) in the Palomar…”
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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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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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The bolometric light curves and physical parameters of stripped-envelope supernovae by Prentice, S. J., Mazzali, P. A., Pian, E., Gal-Yam, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Rubin, A., Corsi, A., Fremling, C., Sollerman, J., Yaron, O., Arcavi, I., Zheng, W., Kasliwal, M. M., Filippenko, A. V., Cenko, S. B., Cao, Y., Nugent, P. E.

“…The optical and optical/near-infrared pseudo-bolometric light curves of 85 stripped-envelope supernovae (SNe) are constructed using a consistent method and a…”
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The rising light curves of Type Ia supernovae by Firth, R E, Sullivan, M, Gal-Yam, A, Howell, D A, Maguire, K, Nugent, P, Piro, A L, Baltay, C, Feindt, U, Hadjiyksta, E, McKinnon, R, Ofek, E, Rabinowitz, D, Walker, E S

“…We present an analysis of the early, rising light curves of 18 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory and the La Silla-QUEST…”
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On the nature of hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae by Inserra, C, Smartt, S J, Gall, E E E, Leloudas, G, Chen, T-W, Schulze, S, Jerkstrand, A, Nicholl, M, Anderson, J P, Arcavi, I, Benetti, S, Cartier, R A, Childress, M, Della Valle, M, Flewelling, H, Fraser, M, Gal-Yam, A, Gutiérrez, C P, Hosseinzadeh, G, Howell, D A, Huber, M, Kankare, E, Krühler, T, Magnier, E A, Maguire, K, McCully, C, Prajs, S, Primak, N, Scalzo, R, Schmidt, B P, Smith, M, Smith, K W, Tucker, B E, Valenti, S, Wilman, M, Young, D R, Yuan, F

“…Abstract We present two hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae (SLSNe): SN2103hx and PS15br. These objects, together with SN2008es, are the only SLSNe showing…”
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Hubble Space Telescope spectra of the Type Ia supernova SN 2011fe: a tail of low-density, high-velocity material with Z < Z by Mazzali, P. A., Sullivan, M., Hachinger, S., Ellis, R. S., Nugent, P. E., Howell, D. A., Gal-Yam, A., Maguire, K., Cooke, J., Thomas, R., Nomoto, K., Walker, E. S.

“…Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopic observations of the nearby Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2011fe, taken on 10 epochs from −13.1 to +40.8 d relative to…”
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Simultaneous esterification/transesterification of waste cooking oil and Jatropha curcas oil with MOF-5 as a heterogeneous acid catalyst by Ben-Youssef, C., Chávez-Yam, A., Zepeda, A., Rivera, J. M., Rincón, S.

“…Metal–organic framework MOF-5 was used for the first time as a heterogeneous acid catalyst for the simultaneous esterification/transesterification of two…”
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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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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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Automating Discovery and Classification of Transients and Variable Stars in the Synoptic Survey Era by Bloom, J. S., Richards, J. W., Nugent, P. E., Quimby, R. M., Kasliwal, M. M., Starr, D. L., Poznanski, D., Ofek, E. O., Cenko, S. B., Butler, N. R., Kulkarni, S. R., Gal-Yam, A., Law, N.

“…ABSTRACT The rate of image acquisition in modern synoptic imaging surveys has already begun to outpace the feasibility of keeping astronomers in the real-time…”
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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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The host galaxies of Type Ia supernovae discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory by Pan, Y.-C., Sullivan, M., Maguire, K., Hook, I. M., Nugent, P. E., Howell, D. A., Arcavi, I., Botyanszki, J., Cenko, S. B., DeRose, J., Fakhouri, H. K., Gal-Yam, A., Hsiao, E., Kulkarni, S. R., Laher, R. R., Lidman, C., Nordin, J., Walker, E. S., Xu, D.

“…We present spectroscopic observations of the host galaxies of 82 low-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory. We…”
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A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon–oxygen–neon nebula by Gal-Yam, A., Bruch, R., Schulze, S., Yang, Y., Perley, D. A., Irani, I., Sollerman, J., Kool, E. C., Soumagnac, M. T., Yaron, O., Strotjohann, N. L., Zimmerman, E., Barbarino, C., Kulkarni, S. R., Kasliwal, M. M., De, K., Yao, Y., Fremling, C., Yan, L., Ofek, E. O., Fransson, C., Filippenko, A. V., Zheng, W., Brink, T. G., Copperwheat, C. M., Foley, R. J., Brown, J., Siebert, M., Leloudas, G., Cabrera-Lavers, A. L., Garcia-Alvarez, D., Marante-Barreto, A., Frederick, S., Hung, T., Wheeler, J. C., Vinkó, J., Thomas, B. P., Graham, M. J., Duev, D. A., Drake, A. J., Dekany, R., Bellm, E. C., Rusholme, B., Shupe, D. L., Andreoni, I., Sharma, Y., Riddle, R., van Roestel, J., Knezevic, N.

“…The final fate of massive stars, and the nature of the compact remnants they leave behind (black holes and neutron stars), are open questions in astrophysics…”
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Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae; what are the implications for their progenitors? by Prentice, S J, Ashall, C, James, P A, Short, L, Mazzali, P A, Bersier, D, Crowther, P A, Barbarino, C, Chen, T-W, Copperwheat, C M, Darnley, M J, Denneau, L, Elias-Rosa, N, Fraser, M, Galbany, L, Gal-Yam, A, Harmanen, J, Howell, D A, Hosseinzadeh, G, Inserra, C, Kankare, E, Karamehmetoglu, E, Lamb, G P, Limongi, M, Maguire, K, McCully, C, Olivares E, F, Piascik, A S, Pignata, G, Reichart, D E, Rest, A, Reynolds, T, Rodríguez, Ó, Saario, J L O, Schulze, S, Smartt, S J, Smith, K W, Sollerman, J, Stalder, B, Sullivan, M, Taddia, F, Valenti, S, Vergani, S D, Williams, S C, Young, D R

“…ABSTRACT We present observations and analysis of 18 stripped-envelope supernovae observed during 2013–2018. This sample consists of five H/He-rich SNe, six…”
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