A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

JC Rastinejad, BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, W Fong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations,; long GRBs that derive from the
core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref.) and short GRBs that form in the merger of …

The complete light-curve sample of spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and cosmological constraints from the combined pantheon sample

DM Scolnic, DO Jones, A Rest, YC Pan… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically
confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium …

ATLAS: a high-cadence all-sky survey system

JL Tonry, L Denneau, AN Heinze… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night
and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena …

Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source

DA Coulter, RJ Foley, CD Kilpatrick, MR Drout, AL Piro… - Science, 2017 - science.org
On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the
Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves (GWs) emanating from a binary neutron …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, optical, and near-infrared light curves and comparison to kilonova …

PS Cowperthwaite, E Berger, VA Villar… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV, optical, and near-infrared (NIR) photometry of the first electromagnetic
counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational …

Optical emission from a kilonova following a gravitational-wave-detected neutron-star merger

I Arcavi, G Hosseinzadeh, DA Howell, C McCully… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The merger of two neutron stars has been predicted to produce an optical–infrared transient
(lasting a few days) known as a 'kilonova', powered by the radioactive decay of neutron-rich …

Design and operation of the ATLAS transient science server

KW Smith, SJ Smartt, DR Young, JL Tonry… - Publications of the …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Asteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) system consists of two
0.5 m Schmidt telescopes with cameras covering 29 square degrees at plate scale of 1.86 …

SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: photo-ionization of dense, close-in circumstellar material in a nearby type II supernova

WV Jacobson-Galán, L Dessart… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV and/or optical observations and models of SN 2023ixf, a type II supernova
(SN) located in Messier 101 at 6.9 Mpc. Early time (flash) spectroscopy of SN 2023ixf …

Short GRB host galaxies. I. Photometric and spectroscopic catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets

W Fong, AE Nugent, Y Dong, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005–2021, constituting all short GRBs for which …

Final moments. I. Precursor emission, envelope inflation, and enhanced mass loss preceding the luminous Type II supernova 2020tlf

WV Jacobson-Galán, L Dessart, DO Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present panchromatic observations and modeling of supernova (SN) 2020tlf, the first
normal Type II-P/L SN with confirmed precursor emission, as detected by the Young …