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450 d of Type II SN 2013ej in optical and near-infrared

scientific article

A Statistical Approach to Identify Superluminous Supernovae and Probe Their Diversity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

A comparative study of Type II-P and II-L supernova rise times as exemplified by the case of LSQ13cuw

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A detailed spectroscopic study of tidal disruption events

scientific article published in March 2022

A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source.

scientific article

A luminous stellar outburst during a long-lasting eruptive phase first, and then SN IIn 2018cnf

scientific article published in August 2019

A nearby super-luminous supernova with a long pre-maximum & “plateau” and strong C II features

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A population of highly energetic transient events in the centres of active galaxies

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A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW151226

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A statistical analysis of circumstellar material in Type Ia supernovae

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Accretion disc cooling and narrow absorption lines in the tidal disruption event AT 2019dsg

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

An elliptical accretion disk following the tidal disruption event AT 2020zso

scientific article published on 27 September 2022

Complexity in the light curves and spectra of slow-evolving superluminous supernovae

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Core-collapse supernova subtypes in luminous infrared galaxies

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DES14X3taz: A TYPE I SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVA SHOWING A LUMINOUS, RAPIDLY COOLING INITIAL PRE-PEAK BUMP

DES16C3cje: A low-luminosity, long-lived supernova

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Discovery and follow-up of the unusual nuclear transient OGLE17aaj

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ERRATUM: “SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AS STANDARDIZABLE CANDLES AND HIGH-REDSHIFT DISTANCE PROBES” (2014, ApJ, 796, 87)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Early observations of the nearby Type Ia supernova SN 2015F

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Early ultraviolet emission in the Type Ia supernova LSQ12gdj: No evidence for ongoing shock interaction

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Erratum: Corrigendum: Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor: Table 1

scholarly article published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Euclid: Superluminous supernovae in the Deep Survey

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Evidence for a Chandrasekhar-mass explosion in the Ca-strong 1991bg-like type Ia supernova 2016hnk

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Further spectral classification of PESSTO blue transients

scientific article published in January 2012

GRB 171010A/SN 2017htp: a GRB-SN at z = 0.33

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High luminosity, slow ejecta and persistent carbon lines: SN 2009dc challenges thermonuclear explosion scenarios

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Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

scientific article published in January 2017

Interacting supernovae and supernova impostors: SN 2009ip, is this the end?

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Intermediate-luminosity red transients: Spectrophotometric properties and connection to electron-capture supernova explosions

scientific article published in October 2021

Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae; what are the implications for their progenitors?

scholarly article

K2 Observations of SN 2018oh Reveal a Two-component Rising Light Curve for a Type Ia Supernova

article by Georgios Dimitriadis et al published 28 December 2018 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

LSQ13ddu: a rapidly evolving stripped-envelope supernova with early circumstellar interaction signatures

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LSQ13fn: A type II-Plateau supernova with a possibly low metallicity progenitor that breaks the standardised candle relation

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

LSQ14bdq: A TYPE Ic SUPER-LUMINOUS SUPERNOVA WITH A DOUBLE-PEAKED LIGHT CURVE

article by Matt Nicholl et al published 1 July 2015 in Letters of the Astrophysical Journal

LSQ14efd: observations of the cooling of a shock break-out event in a type Ic Supernova

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Less Than 1% of Core-collapse Supernovae in the Local Universe Occur in Elliptical Galaxies

scientific article published in March 2022

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Long-duration superluminous supernovae at late times

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Luminous red novae: Stellar mergers or giant eruptions?

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium – IV. Transitional Type Ibn supernovae

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Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium – V. Observations of the slow-evolving SN Ibn OGLE-2012-SN-006

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Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium – VI. Observations of two distant Type Ibn supernova candidates discovered by La Silla-QUEST

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Measuring nickel masses in Type Ia supernovae using cobalt emission in nebular phase spectra

scholarly article by Michael J. Childress et al published 23 October 2015 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Moderately luminous Type II supernovae

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Newly formed dust within the circumstellar environment of SN Ia-CSM 2018evt

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OGLE-2013-SN-079: a lonely supernova consistent with a helium shell detonation

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OGLE-2014-SN-131: A long-rising Type Ibn supernova from a massive progenitor

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star–black hole binary merger candidate S190814bv

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Observations of the GRB Afterglow ATLAS17aeu and Its Possible Association with GW 170104

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

On Type IIn/Ia-CSM supernovae as exemplified by SN 2012ca

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On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor

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On the nature of hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae

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On the progenitor of the Type IIP SN 2013ej in M74

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Optical photometry and spectroscopy of the low-luminosity, broad-lined Ic supernova iPTF15dld

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PESSTO monitoring of SN 2012hn: further heterogeneity among faint Type I supernovae

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PESSTO spectroscopic classification of La Silla-Quest transients

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PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

scientific article published in January 2014

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

scientific article published in January 2013

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

scientific article published in January 2012

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

PS15cey and PS17cke: prospective candidates from the Pan-STARRS Search for kilonovae

scientific article

Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914

scholarly article

Pan-STARRS1 3Pi transients

scientific article published in January 2014

Pessto spectroscopic classification of optical transients

scientific article published in January 2013

Pessto spectroscopic classification of optical transients

Photometric and Spectroscopic Properties of Type Ia Supernova 2018oh with Early Excess Emission from the Kepler 2 Observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu(Gaia16cfr)

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

Probable supernova discovered in NGC 4258 (Messier 106) by Pan-STARRS1

scientific article published in January 2014

Progenitor, environment, and modelling of the interacting transient AT 2016jbu (Gaia16cfr)

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

Publisher Correction: Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm

scholarly article published in Nature Astronomy

Quantitative photospheric spectral analysis of the Type IIP supernova 2007od

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Rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey

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Real-time discovery of AT2020xnd: a fast, luminous ultraviolet transient with minimal radioactive ejecta

scientific article published on 9 October 2021

Red and dead: the progenitor of SN 2012aw in M95

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SN 2009ib: a Type II-P supernova with an unusually long plateau

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SN 2009ip at late times – an interacting transient at +2 years

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SN 2009ip à la PESSTO: no evidence for core collapse yet

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SN 2009jf: a slow-evolving stripped-envelope core-collapse supernova

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SN 2011A: a low-luminosity interacting transient with a double plateau and strong sodium absorption

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SN 2012ec: mass of the progenitor from PESSTO follow-up of the photospheric phase

scholarly article

SN 2015bn: A DETAILED MULTI-WAVELENGTH VIEW OF A NEARBY SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVA

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

SN 2016dsg: A Thermonuclear Explosion Involving a Thick Helium Shell

scientific article published on 28 July 2022

SN 2017dio: A Type-Ic Supernova Exploding in a Hydrogen-rich Circumstellar Medium

SN 2017ens: The Metamorphosis of a Luminous Broadlined Type Ic Supernova into an SN IIn

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SN 2017gci: a nearby Type I Superluminous Supernova with a bumpy tail

scientific article published on 5 January 2021

SN 2017gmr: An Energetic Type II-P Supernova with Asymmetries

scientific article published in November 2019

SN 2018bsz: A Type I superluminous supernova with aspherical circumstellar material

scientific article published on 30 September 2022

SN 2019hcc: a Type II supernova displaying early O  ii lines

scientific article published on 20 July 2021

SN 2019muj – a well-observed Type Iax supernova that bridges the luminosity gap of the class

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SN2012ca: a stripped envelope core-collapse SN interacting with dense circumstellar medium

SN2018kzr: A Rapidly Declining Transient from the Destruction of a White Dwarf

SNe 2013K and 2013am: observed and physical properties of two slow, normal Type IIP events

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SN 2020acat: an energetic fast rising Type IIb supernova

scientific article published on 5 May 2022

SN 2020cpg: an energetic link between Type IIb and Ib supernovae

scientific article published on 22 June 2021

SN 2021zny: an early flux excess combined with late-time oxygen emission suggests a double white dwarf merger event

Slow-blue nuclear hypervariables in PanSTARRS-1

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Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions

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Spatially Resolved MaNGA Observations of the Host Galaxy of Superluminous Supernova 2017egm

Spectral analysis of four ‘hypervariable’ AGN: a micro-needle in the haystack?

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Spectropolarimetry of superluminous supernovae: insight into their geometry

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Studying the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the First Spectroscopically Confirmed Supernova at Redshift Two

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Super-luminous type IC supernovae: catching a magnetar by the tail

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey

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Superluminous supernova SN 2015bn in the nebular phase: evidence for the engine-powered explosion of a stripped massive star

scholarly article

Superluminous supernova progenitors have a half-solar metallicity threshold

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Superluminous supernovae as standardizable candles and high-redshift distance probes

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Superluminous supernovae from PESSTO

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Supernova 2012ec: identification of the progenitor and early monitoring with PESSTO★

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Supernova 2013fc in a circumnuclear ring of a luminous infrared galaxy: the big brother of SN 1998S

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Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey: I. Deep coadds, photometry, and stellar masses

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Supersolar Ni/Fe production in the Type IIP SN 2012ec

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Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

Testing the magnetar scenario for superluminous supernovae with circular polarimetry

scholarly article

The Early Detection and Follow-up of the Highly Obscured Type II Supernova 2016ija/DLT16am

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Progenitor and Early Evolution of the Type IIb SN 2016gkg

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The Type IIP SN 2007od in UGC 12846: from a bright maximum to dust formation in the nebular phase*

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The Type IIP supernova 2012aw in M95: hydrodynamical modeling of the photospheric phase from accurate spectrophotometric monitoring

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Type Ib SN 1999dn: one year of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring★

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The bright Type IIP SN 2009bw, showing signs of interaction★

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The double-peaked Type Ic supernova 2019cad: another SN 2005bf-like object

scientific article published on 13 April 2021

The evolution of luminous red nova AT 2017jfs in NGC 4470

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The evolution of superluminous supernova LSQ14mo and its interacting host galaxy system

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The first month of evolution of the slow-rising Type IIP SN 2013ej in M74

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The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the superluminous supernova PTF12dam

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The lowest-metallicity type II supernova from the highest-mass red supergiant progenitor

scientific article published in January 2018

The mystery of photometric twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy

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The nuclear transient AT 2017gge: a tidal disruption event in a dusty and gas-rich environment and the awakening of a dormant SMBH

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

The superluminous supernova PS1-11ap: bridging the gap between low and high redshift

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The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

scholarly article by Giorgos Leloudas et al published 12 December 2016 in Nature Astronomy

The supernova CSS121015:004244+132827: a clue for understanding superluminous supernovae

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The tidal disruption event AT 2018hyz – I. Double-peaked emission lines and a flat Balmer decrement

The type Iax supernova, SN 2015HA white dwarf deflagration candidate

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Transitional events in the spectrophotometric regime between stripped envelope and superluminous supernovae

scientific article published on 5 October 2021

Type II supernovae in low-luminosity host galaxies

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Type Ia supernovae with and without blueshifted narrow Na i D lines – how different is their structure?

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Type Ibn Supernovae Show Photometric Homogeneity and Spectral Diversity at Maximum Light

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Using late-time optical and near-infrared spectra to constrain Type Ia supernova explosion properties

scholarly article

Weak Mass Loss from the Red Supergiant Progenitor of the Type II SN 2021yja

scientific article published in August 2022

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of optical transients

ePESSTO spectroscopic classification of the optical transient MASTER OT J034412.48-263556.5

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