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Looking Into The Fireball: ROTSE-III And Swift Observations Of Early Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
(2009-09)
We report on a complete set of early optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) obtained with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-III) telescope network from 2005 March through 2007 June. This set is ...
Effects Of Rotationally Induced Mixing In Compact Binary Systems With Low-Mass Secondaries And In Single Solar-Type Stars
(2012-08)
Many population synthesis and stellar evolution studies have addressed the evolution of close binary systems in which the primary is a compact remnant and the secondary is filling its Roche lobe, thus triggering mass ...
Effects Of Rotation On The Minimum Mass Of Primordial Progenitors Of Pair-Instability Supernovae
(2012-03)
The issue of which stars may reach the conditions of electron/positron pair-formation instability is of importance to understand the final evolution both of the first stars and of contemporary stars. The criterion to enter ...
The Morphology Of The Ejecta In Supernova 1987A: A Study Over Time And Wavelength
(2013-05)
We present a study of the morphology of the ejecta in Supernova 1987A based on images and spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as well as integral field spectroscopy from VLT/SINFONI. The HST observations were ...
The Optical Luminosity Function Of Gamma-Ray Bursts Deduced From ROTSE-III Observations
(2014-11)
We present the optical luminosity function (LF) of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) estimated from a uniform sample of 58 GRBs from observations with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment III (ROTSE-III). Our GRB sample ...
A Luminous, Fast Rising UV-Transient Discovered By ROTSE: A Tidal Disruption Event?
(2015-01)
We present follow-up observations of an optical transient (OT) discovered by ROTSE on 2009 January 21. Photometric monitoring was carried out with ROTSE-IIIb in the optical and Swift in the UV up to +70 days after discovery. ...
Evidence For Type Ia Supernova Diversity From Ultraviolet Observations With The Hubble Space Telescope
(2012-04)
We present ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy and photometry of four Type Ia supernovae (SNe 2004dt, 2004ef, 2005M, and 2005cf) obtained with the UV prism of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. This ...
Aspherical Core-Collapse Supernovae In Red Supergiants Powered By Nonrelativistic Jets
(2009-05)
We explore the observational characteristics of jet-driven supernovae (SNe) by simulating bipolar-jet-driven explosions in a red supergiant (RSG) progenitor. We present results of four models in which we hold the injected ...
The Destruction of the Circumstellar Ring of SN 1987A
(2015-06)
We present imaging and spectroscopic observations with Hubble Space Telescope and Very Large Telescope of the ring of SN 1987A from 1994 to 2014. After an almost exponential increase of the shocked emission from the hotspots ...
Type IIb Supernova Sn 2011dh: Spectra And Photometry From The Ultraviolet To The Near-Infrared
(2014-02)
We report spectroscopic and photometric observations of the Type IIb SN 201 ldh obtained between 4 and 34 days after the estimated date of explosion (May 31.5 UT). The data cover a wide wavelength range from 2000 angstrom ...