Binary population and spectral synthesis version 2.1: construction, observational verification, and new results

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway, L **ao… - Publications of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis suite of binary stellar evolution models and
synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of …

LSST: from science drivers to reference design and anticipated data products

Ž Ivezić, SM Kahn, JA Tyson, B Abel… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Major advances in our understanding of the universe have historically arisen from dramatic
improvements in our ability to “see.” We have developed progressively larger telescopes …

New regimes in the observation of core-collapse supernovae

M Modjaz, CP Gutiérrez, I Arcavi - Nature Astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) mark the deaths of stars more massive than about eight
times the mass of the Sun and are intrinsically the most common kind of catastrophic cosmic …

The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. II. A public statistical sample for exploring supernova demographics

DA Perley, C Fremling, J Sollerman… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a public catalog of transients from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) Bright
Transient Survey, a magnitude-limited (m< 19 mag in either the g or r filter) survey for …

Neutron star mergers might not be the only source of r-process elements in the Milky Way

B Côté, M Eichler, A Arcones, CJ Hansen… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Probing the origin of r-process elements in the universe represents a multidisciplinary
challenge. We review the observational evidence that probes the properties of r-process …

The Palomar Transient Factory core-collapse supernova host-galaxy sample. I. Host-galaxy distribution functions and environment dependence of core-collapse …

S Schulze, O Yaron, J Sollerman… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Several thousand core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) of different flavors have been
discovered so far. However, identifying their progenitors has remained an outstanding open …

The expansion of stripped-envelope stars: Consequences for supernovae and gravitational-wave progenitors

E Laplace, Y Götberg, SE De Mink, S Justham… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Massive binaries that merge as compact objects are the progenitors of gravitational-wave
sources. Most of these binaries experience one or more phases of mass transfer, during …

SuperRAENN: a semisupervised supernova photometric classification pipeline trained on pan-STARRS1 medium-deep survey supernovae

VA Villar, G Hosseinzadeh, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Automated classification of supernovae (SNe) based on optical photometric light-curve
information is essential in the upcoming era of wide-field time domain surveys, such as the …

A cool and inflated progenitor candidate for the Type Ib supernova 2019yvr at 2.6 yr before explosion

CD Kilpatrick, MR Drout, K Auchettl… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT We present Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a pre-explosion counterpart to
SN 2019yvr obtained 2.6 yr before its explosion as a type Ib supernova (SN Ib). Aligning to a …

Star formation, supernovae, iron, and α: consistent cosmic and Galactic histories

D Maoz, O Graur - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent versions of the observed cosmic star formation history (SFH) have resolved an
inconsistency with the stellar mass density history. We show that the revised SFH also …