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Ítem A long life of excess: The interacting transient SN 2017hcc(EDP Sciences, 2023-01) Moran S.; Fraser M.; Kotak R.; Pastorello A.; Benetti S.; Brennan S.J.; Gutiérrez C.P.; Kankare E.; Kuncarayakti H.; Mattila S.; Reynolds T.M.; Anderson J.P.; Brown P.J.; Campana S.; Chambers K.C.; Chen T.-W.; Della Valle M.; Dennefeld M.; Elias-Rosa N.; Galbany L.; Galindo-Guil F.J.; Gromadzki M.; Hiramatsu D.; Inserra C.; Leloudas G.; Müller-Bravo T.E.; Nicholl M.; Reguitti A.; Shahbandeh M.; Smartt S.J.; Tartaglia L.; Young D.R.In this study we present the results of a five-year follow-up campaign of the long-lived type IIn supernova SN 2017hcc, found in a spiral dwarf host of near-solar metallicity. The long rise time (57 ± 2 days, ATLAS o band) and high luminosity (peaking at -20.78 ± 0.01 mag in the ATLAS o band) point towards an interaction of massive ejecta with massive and dense circumstellar material (CSM). The evolution of SN 2017hcc is slow, both spectroscopically and photometrically, reminiscent of the long-lived type IIn, SN 2010jl. An infrared (IR) excess was apparent soon after the peak, and blueshifts were noticeable in the Balmer lines starting from a few hundred days, but appeared to be fading by around +1200 d. We posit that an IR light echo from pre-existing dust dominates at early times, with some possible condensation of new dust grains occurring at epochs ≳;+800 d. © The Authors 2023.Ítem A study in scarlet: I. Photometric properties of a sample of intermediate-luminosity red transients(EDP Sciences, 2025-03) Valerin G.; Pastorello A.; Reguitti A.; Benetti S.; Cai Y.-Z.; Chen T.-W.; Eappachen D.; Elias-Rosa N.; Fraser M.; Gangopadhyay A.; Hsiao E.Y.; Howell D.A.; Inserra C.; Izzo L.; Jencson J.; Kankare E.; Kotak R.; Mazzali P.A.; Misra K.; Pignata G.; Prentice S.J.; Sand D.J.; Smartt S.J.; Stritzinger M.D.; Tartaglia L.; Valenti S.; Anderson J.P.; Andrews J.E.; Amaro R.C.; Brennan S.; Bufano F.; Callis E.; Cappellaro E.; Dastidar R.; Della Valle M.; Fiore A.; Fulton M.D.; Galbany L.; Heikkilä T.; Hiramatsu D.; Karamehmetoglu E.; Kuncarayakti H.; Leloudas G.; Lundquist M.; Mccully C.; Müller-Bravo T.E.; Nicholl M.; Ochner P.; Padilla Gonzalez E.; Paraskeva E.; Pellegrino C.; Rau A.; Reichart D.E.; Reynolds T.M.; Roy R.; Salmaso I.; Singh M.; Turatto M.; Tomasella L.; Wyatt S.Aims. We investigate the photometric characteristics of a sample of intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classical novae and standard supernovae. Our goal is to provide a stepping stone in the path to reveal the physical origin of such events, thanks to the analysis of the datasets collected. Methods. We present the multi-wavelength photometric follow-up of four ILRTs, namely NGC 300 2008OT-1, AT 2019abn, AT 2019ahd, and AT 2019udc. Through the analysis and modelling of their spectral energy distribution and bolometric light curves, we inferred the physical parameters associated with these transients. Results. All four objects display a single-peaked light curve which ends in a linear decline in magnitudes at late phases. A flux excess with respect to a single blackbody emission is detected in the infrared domain for three objects in our sample, a few months after maximum. This feature, commonly found in ILRTs, is interpreted as a sign of dust formation. Mid-infrared monitoring of NGC 300 2008OT-1 761 days after maximum allowed us to infer the presence of ∼10-3-10-5 M⊙ of dust, depending on the chemical composition and the grain size adopted. The late-time decline of the bolometric light curves of the considered ILRTs is shallower than expected for 56Ni decay, hence requiring an additional powering mechanism. James Webb Space Telescope observations of AT 2019abn prove that the object has faded below its progenitor luminosity in the mid-infrared domain, five years after its peak. Together with the disappearance of NGC 300 2008OT-1 in Spitzer images seven years after its discovery, this supports the terminal explosion scenario for ILRTs. With a simple semi-analytical model we tried to reproduce the observed bolometric light curves in the context of a few solar masses ejected at few 103 km s-1 and enshrouded in an optically thick circumstellar medium. © The Authors 2025.Ítem An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz(Oxford University Press, 2020-11) Nicholl M.; Wevers T.; Oates S.R.; Alexander K.D.; Leloudas G.; Onori F.; Jerkstrand A.; Gomez S.; Campana S.; Arcavi I.; Charalampopoulos P.; Gromadzki M.; Ihanec N.; Jonker P.G.; Lawrence A.; Mandel I.; Schulze S.; Short P.; Burke J.; McCully C.; Hiramatsu D.; Howell D.A.; Pellegrino C.; Abbot H.; Anderson J.P.; Berger E.; Blanchard P.K.; Cannizzaro G.; Chen T.-W.; Dennefeld M.; Galbany L.; Gonzalez-Gaitan S.; Hosseinzadeh G.; Inserra C.; Irani I.; Kuin P.; Muller-Bravo T.; Pineda J.; Ross N.P.; Roy R.; Smartt S.J.; Smith K.W.; Tucker B.; Wyrzykowski L.; Young D.R.At 66 Mpc, AT2019qiz is the closest optical tidal disruption event (TDE) to date, with a luminosity intermediate between the bulk of the population and the faint-and-fast event iPTF16fnl. Its proximity allowed a very early detection and triggering of multiwavelength and spectroscopic follow-up well before maximum light. The velocity dispersion of the host galaxy and fits to the TDE light curve indicate a black hole mass ~106M⊙, disrupting a star of ~1M⊙. By analysing our comprehensive UV, optical, and X-ray data, we show that the early optical emission is dominated by an outflow, with a luminosity evolution L α t2, consistent with a photosphere expanding at constant velocity (≥2000 km s-1), and a line-forming region producing initially blueshifted H and He II profiles with v = 3000-10000 km s-1. The fastest optical ejecta approach the velocity inferred from radio detections (modelled in a forthcoming companion paper from K. D. Alexander et al.), thus the same outflow may be responsible for both the fast optical rise and the radio emission - the first time this connection has been observed in a TDE. The light-curve rise begins 29 ± 2 d before maximum light, peaking when the photosphere reaches the radius where optical photons can escape. The photosphere then undergoes a sudden transition, first cooling at constant radius then contracting at constant temperature. At the same time, the blueshifts disappear from the spectrum and Bowen fluorescence lines (N III) become prominent, implying a source of far-UV photons, while the X-ray light curve peaks at ~1041erg s-1. Assuming that these X-rays are from prompt accretion, the size and mass of the outflow are consistent with the reprocessing layer needed to explain the large optical to X-ray ratio in this and other optical TDEs, possibly favouring accretion-powered over collision-powered outflow models. © 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.Ítem Panning for gold, but finding helium: Discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN 2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations(EDP Sciences, 2023-07) Agudo I.; Amati L.; An T.; Bauer F.E.; Benetti S.; Bernardini M.G.; Beswick R.; Bhirombhakdi K.; De Boer T.; Branchesi M.; Brennan S.J.; Brocato E.; Caballero-García M.D.; Cappellaro E.; Castro Rodríguez N.; Castro-Tirado A.J.; Chambers K.C.; Chassande-Mottin E.; Chaty S.; Chen T.-W.; Coleiro A.; Covino S.; Da'ammando F.; Da'avanzo P.; Da'elia V.; Fiore A.; Flörs A.; Fraser M.; Frey S.; Frohmaier C.; Fulton M.; Galbany L.; Gall C.; Gao H.; García-Rojas J.; Ghirlanda G.; Giarratana S.; Gillanders J.H.; Giroletti M.; Gompertz B.P.; Gromadzki M.; Heintz K.E.; Hjorth J.; Hu Y.-D.; Huber M.E.; Inkenhaag A.; Izzo L.; Jin Z.P.; Jonker P.G.; Kann D.A.; Kool E.C.; Kotak R.; Leloudas G.; Levan A.J.; Lin C.-C.; Lyman J.D.; Magnier E.A.; Maguire K.; Mandel I.; Marcote B.; Mata Sánchez D.; Mattila S.; Mattila S.; Michaåà  Owski M.J.; Moldon J.; Nicholl M.; Nicuesa Guelbenzu A.; Oates S.R.; Onori F.; Orienti M.; Paladino R.; Paragi Z.; Perez-Torres M.; Pian E.; Pignata G.; Piranomonte S.; Quirola-Vásquez J.; Ragosta F.; Rau A.; Ronchini S.; Rossi A.; Sánchez-Ramírez R.; Salafia O.S.; Schulze S.; Smartt S.J.; Smith K.W.; Sollerman J.; Srivastav S.; Starling R.L.C.; Steeghs D.; Stevance H.F.; Tanvir N.R.; Testa V.; Torres M.A.P.; Valeev A.; Vergani S.D.; Vescovi D.; Wainscost R.; Watson D.; Wiersema K.; Wyrzykowski L.; Yang J.; Yang S.; Young D.R.We present the results from multi-wavelength observations of a transient discovered during an intensive follow-up campaign of S191213g, a gravitational wave (GW) event reported by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration as a possible binary neutron star merger in a low latency search. This search yielded SN 2019wxt, a young transient in a galaxy whose sky position (in the 80% GW contour) and distance (∼150 Mpc) were plausibly compatible with the localisation uncertainty of the GW event. Initially, the transienta's tightly constrained age, its relatively faint peak magnitude (Mi ∼ -16.7 mag), and the r-band decline rate of ∼1 mag per 5 days appeared suggestive of a compact binary merger. However, SN 2019wxt spectroscopically resembled a type Ib supernova, and analysis of the optical-near-infrared evolution rapidly led to the conclusion that while it could not be associated with S191213g, it nevertheless represented an extreme outcome of stellar evolution. By modelling the light curve, we estimated an ejecta mass of only ∼0.1 M·, with 56Ni comprising ∼20% of this. We were broadly able to reproduce its spectral evolution with a composition dominated by helium and oxygen, with trace amounts of calcium. We considered various progenitor channels that could give rise to the observed properties of SN 2019wxt and concluded that an ultra-stripped origin in a binary system is the most likely explanation. Disentangling genuine electromagnetic counterparts to GW events from transients such as SN 2019wxt soon after discovery is challenging: in a bid to characterise this level of contamination, we estimated the rate of events with a volumetric rate density comparable to that of SN 2019wxt and found that around one such event per week can occur within the typical GW localisation area of O4 alerts out to a luminosity distance of 500 Mpc, beyond which it would become fainter than the typical depth of current electromagnetic follow-up campaigns. © 2023 AuthorsÍtem Photometry and spectroscopy of the Type Icn supernova 2021ckj: The diverse properties of the ejecta and circumstellar matter of Type Icn supernovae(EDP Sciences, 2023-05) Nagao T.; Kuncarayakti H.; Maeda K.; Moore T.; Pastorello A.; Mattila S.; Uno K.; Smartt S.J.; Sim S.A.; Ferrari L.; Tomasella L.; Anderson J.P.; Chen T.-W.; Galbany L.; Gao H.; Gromadzki M.; Gutiérrez C.P.; Inserra C.; Kankare E.; Magnier E.A.; Müller-Bravo T.E.; Reguitti A.; Young D.R.We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the Type Icn supernova (SN) 2021ckj. This rare type of SNe is characterized by a rapid evolution and high peak luminosity as well as narrow lines of highly ionized carbon at early phases, implying an interaction with hydrogen- and helium-poor circumstellar matter (CSM). SN 2021ckj reached a peak brightness of ~-20 mag in the optical bands, with a rise time and a time above half maximum of ~4 and ~10 days, respectively, in the g and cyan bands. These features are reminiscent of those of other Type Icn SNe (SNe 2019hgp, 2021csp, and 2019jc), with the photometric properties of SN 2021ckj being almost identical to those of SN 2021csp. Spectral modeling of SN 2021ckj reveals that its composition is dominated by oxygen, carbon, and iron group elements, and the photospheric velocity at peak is ~10000 km s-1. Modeling the spectral time series of SN 2021ckj suggests aspherical SN ejecta. From the light curve (LC) modeling applied to SNe 2021ckj, 2019hgp, and 2021csp, we find that the ejecta and CSM properties of Type Icn SNe are diverse. SNe 2021ckj and 2021csp likely have two ejecta components (an aspherical high-energy component and a spherical standard-energy component) with a roughly spherical CSM, while SN 2019hgp can be explained by a spherical ejecta-CSM interaction alone. The ejecta of SNe 2021ckj and 2021csp have larger energy per ejecta mass than the ejecta of SN 2019hgp. The density distribution of the CSM is similar in these three SNe, and is comparable to those of Type Ibn SNe. This may imply that the mass-loss mechanism is common between Type Icn (and also Type Ibn) SNe. The CSM masses of SN 2021ckj and SN 2021csp are higher than that of SN 2019hgp, although all these values are within those seen in Type Ibn SNe. The early spectrum of SN 2021ckj shows narrow emission lines from C II and C III, without a clear absorption component, in contrast with that observed in SN 2021csp. The similarity of the emission components of these lines implies that the emitting regions of SNe 2021ckj and 2021csp have similar ionization states, and thus suggests that they have similar properties as the ejecta and CSM, which is also inferred from the LC modeling. Taking the difference in the strength of the absorption features into account, this heterogeneity may be attributed to viewing angle effects in otherwise common aspherical ejecta. In particular, in this scenario SN 2021ckj is observed from the polar direction, while SN 2021csp is seen from an off-axis direction. This is also supported by the fact that the late-time spectra of SNe 2021ckj and 2021csp show similar features but with different line velocities. © 2023 EDP Sciences. All rights reserved.Ítem SN 2017ivv: Two years of evolution of a transitional Type II supernova(Oxford University Press, 2020-11) Gutiérrez C.P.; Pastorello A.; Jerkstrand A.; Galbany L.; Sullivan M.; Anderson J.P.; Taubenberger S.; Kuncarayakti H.; González-Gaitán S.; Wiseman P.; Inserra C.; Fraser M.; Maguire K.; Smartt S.; Müller-Bravo T.E.; Arcavi I.; Benetti S.; Bersier D.; Bose S.; Bostroem K.A.; Burke J.; Chen P.; Chen T.-W.; Della Valle M.; Dong S.; Gal-Yam A.; Gromadzki M.; Hiramatsu D.; Holoien T.W.-S.; Hosseinzadeh G.; Howell D.A.; Kankare E.; Kochanek C.S.; McCully C.; Nicholl M.; Pignata G.; Prieto J.L.; Shappee B.; Taggart K.; Tomasella L.; Valenti S.; Young D.R.We present the photometric and spectroscopic evolution of the Type II supernova (SN II) SN 2017ivv (also known as ASASSN- 17qp). Located in an extremely faint galaxy (Mr =-10.3 mag), SN 2017ivv shows an unprecedented evolution during the 2 yr of observations. At early times, the light curve shows a fast rise (~6-8 d) to a peak of Mmaxg = -17.84 mag, followed by a very rapid decline of 7.94 ± 0.48 mag per 100 d in the V band. The extensive photometric coverage at late phases shows that the radioactive tail has two slopes, one steeper than that expected from the decay of 56Co (between 100 and 350 d), and another slower (after 450 d), probably produced by an additional energy source. From the bolometric light curve, we estimated that the amount of ejected 56Ni is ~0.059 ± 0.003M⊙. The nebular spectra of SN 2017ivv show a remarkable transformation that allows the evolution to be split into three phases: (1) Ha strong phase ([removed]500 d).We find that the nebular analysis favours a binary progenitor and an asymmetric explosion. Finally, comparing the nebular spectra of SN 2017ivv to models suggests a progenitor with a zero-age main-sequence mass of 15-17M⊙. © 2020 The Author(s).