Exotic Explosions and Eruptions: Exploring a New Transient Phase-Space with Pan-STARRS

Edo Berger, Kathy Roth, Alicia Soderberg, Gautham Narayan, Ian Czekala, Nathan Sanders, Ryan Chornock, Ryan Foley, Christopher Stubbs, Armin Rest

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Abstract

For nearly a century two primary classes of optical transients - nova eruptions and supernova explosions - have been studied in detail. These transients occupy narrow ranges of absolute magnitudes, around -8 and -18 mag (+/-2 mag) respectively. However, nascent dedicated surveys (e.g. Pan-STARRS) are now revealing new classes of optical transients in the wide nova-SN gap and at very high luminosities (
Original languageEnglish
TypeProposal
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Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2012

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NameNOAO Proposal ID 2012A-0194

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