Observational clues to the progenitors of type Ia supernovae

D Maoz, F Mannucci, G Nelemans - Annual Review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important distance indicators, element factories, cosmic-ray
accelerators, kinetic-energy sources in galaxy evolution, and end points of stellar binary …

Progenitors of type Ia supernovae

B Wang, Z Han - New Astronomy Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in astrophysics and are crucial for the
studies of stellar evolution, galaxy evolution and cosmology. They are generally thought to …

The man behind the curtain: X-rays drive the UV through NIR variability in the 2013 active galactic nucleus outburst in NGC 2617

BJ Shappee, JL Prieto, D Grupe… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT After the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae discovered a significant
brightening of the inner region of NGC 2617, we began a∼ 70 day photometric and …

How to constrain your M dwarf: measuring effective temperature, bolometric luminosity, mass, and radius

AW Mann, GA Feiden, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise and accurate parameters for late-type (late K and M) dwarf stars are important for
characterization of any orbiting planets, but such determinations have been hampered by …

BAT AGN spectroscopic survey. I. Spectral measurements, derived quantities, and AGN demographics

M Koss, B Trakhtenbrot, C Ricci, I Lamperti… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first catalog and data release of the Swift-BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey.
We analyze optical spectra of the majority of the detected AGNs (77%, 642/836) based on …

Supernova constraints and systematic uncertainties from the first three years of the supernova legacy survey

A Conley, J Guy, M Sullivan, N Regnault… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine high-redshift Type Ia supernovae from the first three years of the Supernova
Legacy Survey (SNLS) with other supernova (SN) samples, primarily at lower redshifts, to …

Observed fractions of core-collapse supernova types and initial masses of their single and binary progenitor stars

N Smith, W Li, AV Filippenko… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the observed fractions of core-collapse supernova (SN) types from the Lick
Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS), and we discuss the corresponding implications for …

[图书][B] Supernova explosions

D Branch, JC Wheeler - 2017 - Springer
JCW had long wanted to write a new monograph on supernovae. Despite an immense
explosion in the literature and many review articles, there had not been one since that of …

PTF 11kx: a Type Ia supernova with a symbiotic nova progenitor

B Dilday, DA Howell, SB Cenko, JM Silverman… - Science, 2012 - science.org
There is a consensus that type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) arise from the thermonuclear
explosion of white dwarf stars that accrete matter from a binary companion. However, direct …

The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary

JA Frieman, B Bassett, A Becker, C Choi… - The Astronomical …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project
to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05< z< 0.35) Type Ia …