Browsing by Author "Sanders, Nathan Edward"

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    • Toward Characterization of the Type IIP Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves from Pan-STARRS1 

      Sanders, Nathan Edward; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Gezari, S.; Betancourt, M.; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Foley, R. J.; Challis, Peter M.; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Kirshner, Robert P.; Lunnan, R; Marion, G. H.; Margutti, R; McKinnon, R.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Narayan, G.; Rest, A.; Kankare, E.; Mattila, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Huber, M. E.; Burgett, W. S.; Draper, P.W.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe): systematic light-curve studies. ...

    • Towards Characterization of the Type Iip Supernova Progenitor Population: A Statistical Sample of Light Curves From Pan-Starrs1 

      Sanders, Nathan Edward; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Gezari, S.; Betancourt, M.; Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Foley, R. J.; Challis, P.; Drout, M.; Kirshner, R. P.; Lunnan, R.; Marion, G. H.; Margutti, R.; McKinnon, R.; Milisavljevic, D.; Narayan, G.; Rest, A.; Kankare, E.; Mattila, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Huber, M. E.; Burgett, W. S.; Draper, P.W.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      In recent years, wide-field sky surveys providing deep multiband imaging have presented a new path for indirectly characterizing the progenitor populations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe): systematic light curve studies. ...

    • Ultra-Luminous Supernovae as a New Probe of the Interstellar Medium in Distant Galaxies 

      Berger, Edo; Chornock, R; Lunnan, R.; Foley, R.; Czekala, Ian Philip; Rest, A.; Leibler, C.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Roth, K.; Narayan, G.; Huber, M. E.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Drout, M.; Margutti, R.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Marion, G. H.; Challis, P. J.; Riess, A. G.; Smartt, S. J.; Burgett, W. S.; Hodapp, K. W.; Heasley, J. N.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; McCrum, M.; Price, P. A.; Smith, K.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J. (IOP Publishing, 2012)
      We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery and light curves, and follow-up MMT and Gemini spectroscopy of an ultra-luminous supernova (ULSN; dubbed PS1-11bam) at a redshift of z = 1.566 with a peak brightness of MUV ≈ −22.3 mag. ...

    • The Ultraviolet-Bright, Slowly Declining Transient PS1-11af as a Partial Tidal Disruption Event. 

      Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Gezari, S.; Zauderer, Bevin Ashley; Rest, A.; Chomiuk, L.; Kamble, Atish; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Czekala, Ian Philip; Dittmann, Jason Adam; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Foley, R. J.; Fong, W; Huber, M. E.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Lawrence, A.; Lunnan, Ragnhild; Marion, G. H.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Riess, A. G.; Roth, K. C.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Martin, D. C.; Neill, J. D.; Price, P. A.; Wainscoat, R. (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery of the long-lived and blue transient PS1-11af, which was also detected by Galaxy Evolution Explorer with coordinated observations in the near-ultraviolet (NUV) band. PS1-11af is associated ...

    • Zooming in on the progenitors of superluminous supernovae with the HST 

      Lunnan, R; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Rest, A.; Fong, W; Scolnic, D.; Jones, D. O.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Challis, Peter M.; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Foley, R. J.; Huber, M. E.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Leibler, C.; Marion, G. H.; McCrum, M.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) rest-frame ultraviolet imaging of the host galaxies of 16 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), including 11 events from the Pan-STARRS Medium Deep Survey. Taking advantage ...