After the Big Bang, production of heavy elements in the early Universe takes place starting
from the formation of the first stars, their evolution, and explosion. The first supernova …

Over a decade ago, a group of supernova explosions with peak luminosities far exceeding
(often by> 100 times) those of normal events has been identified. These superluminous …

Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

Understanding the link between massive (≳ 30 M⊙) stellar black holes (BHs) and their
progenitor stars is a crucial step to interpret observations of gravitational-wave events. In this …

The next core-collapse supernova in the Milky Way or its satellites will represent a once-in-a-
generation opportunity to obtain detailed information about the explosion of a star and …

Supernova theory, numerical and analytic, has made remarkable progress in the past
decade. This progress was made possible by more sophisticated simulation tools, especially …

Understanding massive stars is essential for a variety of branches of astronomy including
galaxy and star cluster evolution, nucleosynthesis and supernovae, pulsars, and black …

Supernovae, the luminous explosions of stars, have been observed since antiquity.
However, various examples of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe; luminosities> 7× 1043 …

Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is performing a three-day cadence survey of the
visible northern sky (∼ 3π) with newly found transient candidates announced via public …

Pair-instability and pulsational pair-instability supernovae (PPISNe) have not been
unambiguously observed so far. They are, however, promising candidates for the …