Browsing by Author "Bock, G."

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    Limits on Active to Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments
    (2016) Adamson, P.; An, F.; Anghel, I.; Aurisano, A.; Balantekin, A.; Band, H.; Barr, G.; Bishai, M.; Blake, A.; Ochoa-Ricoux, Juan Pedro; Blyth, S.; Bock, G.; Bogert, D.; Cao, D.; Cao, G.; Cao, J.; Malyshkin, Y.; Viaux Maira, Nicolás
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    Supernova progenitors, their variability and the Type IIP Supernova ASASSN-16fq in M66
    (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2017) Kochanek, C. S.; Fraser, M.; Adams, S. M.; Sukhbold, T.; Prieto, J. L.; Mueller, T.; Bock, G.; Brown, J. S.; Dong, Subo; Holoien, T. W. S.; Khan, R.; Shappee, B. J.; Stanek, K. Z.
    We identify a pre-explosion counterpart to the nearby Type IIP supernova ASASSN-16fq (SN 2016cok) in archival Hubble Space Telescope data. The source appears to be a blend of several stars that prevents obtaining accurate photometry. However, with reasonable assumptions about the stellar temperature and extinction, the progenitor almost certainly had an initial mass M-* less than or similar to 17M(circle dot), and was most likely in the mass range of M-* = 8-12M(circle dot). Observations once ASASSN-16fq has faded will have no difficulty accurately determining the properties of the progenitor. In 8 yr of Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) data, no significant progenitor variability is detected to rms limits of roughly 0.03 mag. Of the six nearby supernova (SN) with constraints on the low-level variability, SN 1987A, SN 1993J, SN 2008cn, SN 2011dh, SN 2013ej and ASASSN-16fq, only the slowly fading progenitor of SN 2011dh showed clear evidence of variability. Excluding SN 1987A, the 90 per cent confidence limit implied by these sources on the number of outbursts over the last decade before the SN that last longer than 0.1 yr (full width at half-maximum) and are brighter than M-R < -8 mag is approximately N-out less than or similar to 3. Our continuing LBT monitoring programme will steadily improve constraints on pre-SN progenitor variability at amplitudes far lower than achievable by SN surveys.
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    The ASAS-SN bright supernova catalogue - V. 2018-2020
    (2023) Neumann, K. D.; Holoien, T. W-S; Kochanek, C. S.; Stanek, K. Z.; Vallely, P. J.; Shappee, B. J.; Prieto, J. L.; Pessi, T.; Jayasinghe, T.; Brimacombe, J.; Bersier, D.; Aydi, E.; Basinger, C.; Beacom, J. F.; Bose, S.; Brown, J. S.; Chen, P.; Clocchiatti, A.; Desai, D. D.; Dong, Subo; Falco, E.; Holmbo, S.; Morrell, N.; Shields, J. V.; Sokolovsky, K. V.; Strader, J.; Stritzinger, M. D.; Swihart, S.; Thompson, T. A.; Way, Z.; Aslan, L.; Bishop, D. W.; Bock, G.; Bradshaw, J.; Cacella, P.; Castro-Morales, N.; Conseil, E.; Cornect, R.; Cruz, I.; Farfan, R. G.; Fernandez, J. M.; Gabuya, A.; Gonzalez-Carballo, J-L; Kendurkar, M. R.; Kiyota, S.; Koff, R. A.; Krannich, G.; Marples, P.; Masi, G.; Monard, L. A. G.; Munoz, J. A.; Nicholls, B.; Post, R. S.; Pujic, Z.; Stone, G.; Tomasella, L.; Trappett, D. L.; Wiethoff, W. S.
    We catalogue the 443 bright supernovae (SNe) discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in 2018-2020 along with the 519 SNe recovered by ASAS-SN and 516 additional m(peak) <= 18 mag SNe missed by ASAS-SN. Our statistical analysis focuses primarily on the 984 SNe discovered or recovered in ASAS-SN g-band observations. The complete sample of 2427 ASAS-SN SNe includes earlier V-band samples and unrecovered SNe. For each SN, we identify the host galaxy, its UV to mid-IR photometry, and the SN's offset from the centre of the host. Updated peak magnitudes, redshifts, spectral classifications, and host galaxy identifications supersede earlier results. With the increase of the limiting magnitude to g <= 18 mag, the ASAS-SN sample is nearly complete up to m(peak) = 16.7 mag and is 90 per cent complete for m(peak) <= 17.0 mag. This is an increase from the V-band sample, where it was roughly complete up to m(peak) = 16.2 mag and 70 per cent complete for m(peak) <= 17.0 mag.