Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Author "Scolnic, D."

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    • Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae Discovered during the First 1.5 yr of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey 

      Rest, Armin Wolfgang; Scolnic, D.; Foley, R. J.; Huber, M. E.; Chornock, R.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Tonry, J. L.; Berger, Edo; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Riess, A.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Smartt, S. J.; Schlafly, E.; Rodney, S.; Botticella, M. T.; Brout, D.; Challis, P.; Czekala, Ian Philip; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Hudson, M. J.; Kotak, R.; Leibler, C.; Lunnan, Ragnhild; Marion, G. H.; McCrum, M.; Milisavljevic, D.; Pastorello, A.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Smith, K.; Stafford, E.; Thilker, D.; Valenti, S.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Zheng, Z.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Denneau, L.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Wainscoat, R.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      We present griz P1 light curves of 146 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia; 0.03 < z < 0.65) discovered during the first 1.5 yr of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. The Pan-STARRS1 natural photometric ...

    • A Decam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the Ligo Gravitational-Wave Event Gw151226 

      Cowperthwaite, Philip Steven; Berger, Edo; Soares-Santos, M.; Annis, J.; Brout, D.; Brown, D. A.; Buckley-Geer, E.; Cenko, S. B.; Chen, H. Y.; Chornock, R.; Diehl, H. T.; Doctor, Z.; Drlica-Wagner, A.; Drout, M. R.; Farr, B.; Finley, D. A.; Foley, R. J.; Fong, W.; Fox, D. B.; Frieman, J.; Garcia-Bellido, J.; Gill, M. S. S.; Gruendl, R. A.; Herner, K.; Holz, D. E.; Kasen, D.; Kessler, R.; Lin, H.; Margutti, R.; Marriner, J.; Matheson, T.; Metzger, B. D.; Neilsen Jr., E. H.; Quataert, E.; Rest, A.; Sako, M.; Scolnic, D.; Smith, N.; Sobreira, F.; Strampelli, G. M.; Villar, V. A.; Walker, A. R.; Wester, W.; Williams, Preston Noah; Yanny, B.; Abbott, T. M. C.; Abdalla, F. B.; Allam, S.; Armstrong, R.; Bechtol, K.; Benoit-Lévy, A.; Bertin, E.; Brooks, D.; Burke, D. L.; Rosell, A. Carnero; Kind, M. Carrasco; Carretero, J.; Castander, F. J.; Cunha, C. E.; D’Andrea, C. B.; Costa, L. N. da; Desai, S.; Dietrich, J. P.; Evrard, A. E.; Neto, A. Fausti; Fosalba, P.; Gerdes, D. W.; Giannantonio, T.; Goldstein, D. A.; Gruen, D.; Gutierrez, G.; Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Johnson, M. W. G.; Johnson, M. D.; Krause, E.; Kuehn, K.; Kuropatkin, N.; Lima, M.; Maia, M. A. G.; Marshall, J. L.; Menanteau, F.; Miquel, R.; Mohr, J. J.; Nichol, R. C.; Nord, B.; Ogando, R.; Plazas, A. A.; Reil, K.; Romer, A. K.; Sanchez, E.; Scarpine, V.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Smith, R. C.; Suchyta, E.; Tarle, G.; Thomas, D.; Thomas, R. C.; Tucker, D. L.; Weller, J. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      We report the results of a Dark Energy Camera (DECam) optical follow-up of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW151226, discovered by the Advanced LIGO detectors. Our observations cover 28.8 deg2 of the localization region ...

    • Displaying the heterogeneity of the SN 2002CX-like subclass of type IA supernovae with observations of the pan-starrs-1 discovered sn 2009ku 

      Narayan, G.; Foley, R. J.; Berger, Edo; Botticella, M. T.; Chornock, R; Huber, M. E.; Rest, A.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S.; Valenti, S.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H. A.; Gates, G.; Grav, T.; Kaiser, N.; Kirshner, R. P.; Magnier, E. A.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Riess, A. G.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Sweeney, W. E.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C.; Wood-Vasey, W. M. (IOP Publishing, 2011)
      SN 2009ku, discovered by Pan-STARRS-1, is a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), and a member of the distinct SN 2002cx-like class of SNe Ia. Its light curves are similar to the prototypical SN 2002cx, but are slightly broader and ...

    • GALEX Detection of Shock Breakout in Type IIP Supernova PS1-13arp: Implications for the Progenitor Star Wind 

      Gezari, S.; Jones, D. O.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Hung, T.; Heinis, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Rest, A.; Scolnic, D.; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Foley, R. J.; Huber, M. E.; Price, P.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Riess, A. G.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Smith, K.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Schiminovich, D.; Martin, D. C.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Kaiser, N.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      We present the GALEX detection of a UV burst at the time of explosion of an optically normal supernova (SN) IIP (PS1-13arp) from the Pan-STARRS1 survey at z = 0.1665. The temperature and luminosity of the UV burst match ...

    • The GALEX Time Domain Survey. II. Wavelength-Dependent Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei in the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey 

      Hung, T; Gezari, S; Jones, D.O.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Rest, A.; Huber, M.; Narayan, G.; Scolnic, D.; Waters, C.; Wainscoat, R.; Martin, D.C.; Forster, K.; Neill, J.D. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      We analyze the wavelength-dependent variability of a sample of spectroscopically confirmed active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from near-UV (NUV) variable sources in the GALEX Time Domain Survey that have a large amplitude ...

    • Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernovae and Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts Have Similar Host Galaxies 

      Lunnan, R.; Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Laskar, T.; Fong, W.; Rest, A.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Challis, P. M.; Drout, M. R.; Foley, R. J.; Huber, M. E.; Kirshner, R. P.; Leibler, C.; Marion, G. H.; McCrum, M.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Narayan, G.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Price, P. A.; Wainscoat, R. J. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      We present optical spectroscopy and optical/near-IR photometry of 31 host galaxies of hydrogenpoor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), including 15 events from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. Our sample spans the redshift ...

    • PS1-10afx at z = 1.388: Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of a New Type of Superluminous Supernova 

      Chornock, Ryan T.; Berger, Edo; Rest, A.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Lunnan, Ragnhild; Foley, R. J.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Smartt, S. J.; Burgasser, A. J.; Challis, Peter M.; Chomiuk, L.; Czekala, Ian Philip; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Fong, Wen-fai; Huber, M. E.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Leibler, C.; McLeod, Brian A.; Marion, G. H.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Riess, A. G.; Roth, K. C.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Scolnic, D.; Smith, K.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Valenti, S.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Price, P. A. (American Astronomical Society, 2013)
      We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery of PS1-10afx, a unique hydrogen-deficient superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift z = 1.388. The light curve peaked at z P1 = 21.7 mag, making PS1-10afx comparable to the most luminous ...

    • Ps1-10bzj: A Fast, Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernova in a Metal Poor Host Galaxy 

      Lunnan, R; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Milisavljevic, Danny; Drout, Maria Rebecca; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Challis, P. M.; Czekala, I.; Foley, R. J.; Fong, W.; Huber, M. E.; Kirshner, R. P.; Leibler, C.; Marion, G. H.; McCrum, M.; Narayan, G.; Rest, A.; Roth, K. C.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Price, P. A. (IOP Publishing, 2013)
      We present observations and analysis of PS1-10bzj, a superluminous supernova (SLSN) discovered in the Pan-STARRS Medium Deep Survey at a redshift z = 0.650. Spectroscopically, PS1-10bzj is similar to the hydrogen-poor SLSNe ...

    • PS1-14bj: A Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova with a Long Rise and Slow Decay. 

      Lunnan, R.; Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Milisavljevic, Danny; Jones, D. O.; Rest, A.; Fong, W.; Fransson, C.; Margutti, R.; Drout, M. R.; Blanchard, Peter Kelly; Challis, P.; Cowperthwaite, Philip Steven; Foley, R. J.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Morrell, N.; Riess, A. G.; Roth, K. C.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Villar, Victoria Ashley; Chambers, K. C.; Draper, P. W.; Huber, M. E.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Waters, C. (American Astronomical Society, 2016)
      We present photometry and spectroscopy of PS1-14bj, a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova (SLSN) at redshift z = 0.5215 discovered in the last months of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. PS1-14bj stands out by its ...

    • Rapidly evolving and luminous transients from Pan-STARRS1 

      Drout, Maria Rebecca; Chornock, R; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; McKinnon, R.; Rest, Armin Wolfgang; Foley, R. J.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Margutti, R; Berger, Edo; Calkins, Michael Lee; Fong, W; Gezari, S.; Huber, M. E.; Kankare, E.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Leibler, C.; Lunnan, R; Mattila, S.; Marion, G. H.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Riess, A. G.; Roth, K. C.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Hodapp, K. W.; Jedicke, R.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      In the past decade, several rapidly evolving transients have been discovered whose timescales and luminosities are not easily explained by traditional supernovae (SNe) models. The sample size of these objects has remained ...

    • Rapidly-Evolving and Luminous Transients From Pan-Starrs1 

      Drout, M. R.; Chornock, R.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; McKinnon, R.; Rest, A.; Foley, R. J.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Margutti, R.; Berger, Edo; Calkins, M.; Fong, W.; Gezari, S.; Huber, M. E.; Kankare, E.; Kirshner, R. P.; Leibler, C.; Lunnan, R.; Mattila, S.; Marion, G. H.; Narayan, G.; Riess, A. G.; Roth, K. C.; Scolnic, D.; Smartt, S. J.; Tonry, J. L.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Hodapp, K. W.; Jedicke, R.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      In the past decade, several rapidly-evolving transients have been discovered whose timescales and luminosities are not easily explained by traditional supernovae (SN) models. The sample size of these objects has remained ...

    • Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey 

      McCrum, M.; Smartt, S. J.; Rest, A.; Smith, K.; Kotak, R.; Rodney, S. A.; Young, D. R.; Chornock, R.; Berger, Edo; Foley, R. J.; Fraser, M.; Wright, D.; Scolnic, D.; Tonry, J. L.; Urata, Y.; Huang, K.; Pastorello, A.; Botticella, M. T.; Valenti, S.; Mattila, S.; Kankare, E.; Farrow, D. J.; Huber, M. E.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Kirshner, Robert P.; Bresolin, F.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Jedicke, R.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Wainscoat, R. J.; Waters, C. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)
      The Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) survey has obtained imaging in five bands (griz yP1) over 10 Medium Deep Survey (MDS) fields covering a total of 70 square degrees. This paper describes the search for apparently hostless supernovae ...

    • Selection of Burst-Like Transients and Stochastic Variables Using Multi-Band Image Differencing in the Pan-Starrs1 Medium-Deep Survey 

      Kumar, S.; Gezari, S.; Heinis, S.; Chornock, R; Berger, Edo; Rest, A.; Huber, M. E.; Foley, R. J.; Narayan, G.; Marion, G. H.; Scolnic, D.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Lawrence, A.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Kirshner, Robert P.; Riess, A. G.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Kaiser, N.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J. (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      We present a novel method for the light-curve characterization of Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey (PS1 MDS) extragalactic sources into stochastic variables (SVs) and burst-like (BL) transients, using multi-band image-differencing ...

    • Slowly Fading Super-Luminous Supernovae That Are Not Pair-Instability Explosions 

      Nicholl, M.; Smartt, S. J.; Jerkstrand, A.; Inserra, C.; McCrum, M.; Kotak, R.; Fraser, M.; Wright, D.; Chen, T.-W.; Smith, K.; Young, D. R.; Sim, S. A.; Valenti, S.; Howell, D. A.; Bresolin, F.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Tonry, J. L.; Huber, M. E.; Rest, A.; Pastorello, A.; Tomasella, L.; Cappellaro, E.; Benetti, S.; Mattila, S.; Kankare, E.; Kangas, T.; Leloudas, G.; Sollerman, J.; Taddia, F.; Berger, E.; Chornock, Ryan T.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Stubbs, Christopher William; Foley, R. J.; Lunnan, Ragnhild; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Milisavljevic, Danny; Margutti, Raffaella; Kirshner, Robert P.; Elias-Rosa, N.; Morales-Garoffolo, A.; Taubenberger, S.; Botticella, M. T.; Gezari, S.; Urata, Y.; Rodney, S.; Riess, A. G.; Scolnic, D.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K.; Flewelling, H. A.; Magnier, E. A.; Kaiser, N.; Metcalfe, N.; Morgan, J.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Waters, C. (Nature Publishing Group, 2013)
      Super-luminous supernovae that radiate more than 10\(^{44}\) ergs per second at their peak luminosity have recently been discovered in faint galaxies at redshifts of 0.1–4. Some evolve slowly, resembling models of ...

    • Supercal: Cross-Calibration of Multiple Photometric Systems to Improve Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae 

      Scolnic, D.; Casertano, S.; Riess, A.; Rest, A.; Schlafly, E.; Foley, R. J.; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Tang, C.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Huber, M. E.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R. P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Stubbs, Christopher William (IOP Publishing, 2015)
      Current cosmological analyses which use Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations combine SN samples to expand the redshift range beyond that of a single sample and increase the overall sample size. The inhomogeneous photometric ...

    • Systematic Uncertainties Associated with the Cosmological Analysis of the First Pan-STARRS1 Type Ia Supernova Sample 

      Scolnic, D.; Rest, A.; Riess, A.; Huber, M. E.; Foley, R. J.; Brout, D.; Chornock, R.; Narayan, G.; Tonry, J. L.; Berger, Edo; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Kirshner, Robert P.; Rodney, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Schlafly, E.; Botticella, M. T.; Challis, P.; Czekala, I.; Drout, M.; Hudson, M. J.; Kotak, R.; Leibler, C.; Lunnan, R.; Marion, G. H.; McCrum, M.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Pastorello, A.; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Smith, K.; Stafford, E.; Thilker, D.; Valenti, S.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Zheng, Z.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Denneau, L.; Draper, P. W.; Flewelling, H.; Hodapp, K. W.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A.; Sweeney, W.; Wainscoat, R.; Waters, C. (IOP Publishing, 2014)
      We probe the systematic uncertainties from the 113 Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) sample along with 197 SN Ia from a combination of low-redshift surveys. The companion paper by Rest et al. (2013) ...

    • 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 ...

    • An Ultraviolet–Optical Flare from the Tidal Disruption of a Helium-Rich Stellar Core 

      Gezari, S.; Chornock, Ryan T.; Rest, A.; Huber, M. E.; Forster, K.; Berger, Edo; Challis, Peter J.; Neill, J. D.; Martin, D. C.; Heckman, T.; Lawrence, A.; Norman, C.; Narayan, Gautham Siddharth; Foley, R. J.; Marion, G. H.; Scolnic, D.; Chomiuk, Laura B; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Smith, K.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Riess, A. G.; Smartt, S. J.; Stubbs, Christopher William; Tonry, J. L.; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Grav, T.; Heasley, J. N.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; Morgan, J. S.; Price, P. A. (Nature Publishing Group, 2012)
      The flare of radiation from the tidal disruption and accretion of a star can be used as a marker for supermassive black holes that otherwise lie dormant and undetected in the centres of distant galaxies1. Previous candidate ...

    • 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 ...