Type Ia Supernova Explosions in Binary Systems: A Review

ZW Liu, FK Röpke, Z Han - Research in Astronomy and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and
cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of white …

Observational properties of thermonuclear supernovae

SW Jha, K Maguire, M Sullivan - Nature Astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
The explosive death of a star as a supernova is one of the most dramatic events in the
Universe. Supernovae have an outsized impact on many areas of astrophysics: they are …

eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS Full-Frame Images

AD Feinstein, BT Montet… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
During its two-year prime mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will
perform a time-series photometric survey covering over 80% of the sky. This survey …

The Young Supernova Experiment: survey goals, overview, and operations

DO Jones, RJ Foley, G Narayan, J Hjorth… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Time-domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of
thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational …

Ztf early observations of type ia supernovae. i. properties of the 2018 sample

Y Yao, AA Miller, SR Kulkarni, M Bulla… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are essential to constrain the
properties of their progenitors. In this paper, we present high-quality light curves of 127 SNe …

YSE-PZ: A Transient Survey Management Platform that Empowers the Human-in-the-loop

DA Coulter, DO Jones, P McGill, RJ Foley… - Publications of the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The modern study of astrophysical transients has been transformed by an exponentially
growing volume of data. Within the last decade, the transient discovery rate has increased …

Discovery and early evolution of ASASSN-19bt, the first TDE detected by TESS

TWS Holoien, PJ Vallely, K Auchettl… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery and early evolution of ASASSN-19bt, a tidal disruption event
(TDE) discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) at a distance …

K2 observations of SN 2018oh reveal a two-component rising light curve for a type Ia supernova

G Dimitriadis, RJ Foley, A Rest, D Kasen… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an exquisite 30 minute cadence Kepler (K2) light curve of the Type Ia supernova
(SN Ia) 2018oh (ASASSN-18bt), starting weeks before explosion, covering the moment of …

Constraining the Progenitor System of the Type Ia Supernova 2021aefx

G Hosseinzadeh, DJ Sand, P Lundqvist… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present high-cadence optical and ultraviolet light curves of the normal Type Ia
supernova (SN) 2021aefx, which shows an early bump during the first two days of …

A Speed Bump: SN 2021aefx Shows that Doppler Shift Alone Can Explain Early Excess Blue Flux in Some Type Ia Supernovae

C Ashall, J Lu, BJ Shappee, CR Burns… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present early-time photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Type Ia supernova
(SN Ia) 2021aefx. The early-time u-band light curve shows an excess flux when compared to …