190 results on '"Peter J Brown"'
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2. A chemical probe of CARM1 alters epigenetic plasticity against breast cancer cell invasion
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Xiao-Chuan Cai, Tuo Zhang, Eui-jun Kim, Ming Jiang, Ke Wang, Junyi Wang, Shi Chen, Nawei Zhang, Hong Wu, Fengling Li, Carlo C dela Seña, Hong Zeng, Victor Vivcharuk, Xiang Niu, Weihong Zheng, Jonghan P Lee, Yuling Chen, Dalia Barsyte, Magda Szewczyk, Taraneh Hajian, Glorymar Ibáñez, Aiping Dong, Ludmila Dombrovski, Zhenyu Zhang, Haiteng Deng, Jinrong Min, Cheryl H Arrowsmith, Linas Mazutis, Lei Shi, Masoud Vedadi, Peter J Brown, Jenny Xiang, Li-Xuan Qin, Wei Xu, and Minkui Luo
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PRMT ,methylation ,epigenetic ,inhibitor ,single cell ,mechanism ,Medicine ,Science ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
CARM1 is a cancer-relevant protein arginine methyltransferase that regulates many aspects of transcription. Its pharmacological inhibition is a promising anti-cancer strategy. Here SKI-73 (6a in this work) is presented as a CARM1 chemical probe with pro-drug properties. SKI-73 (6a) can rapidly penetrate cell membranes and then be processed into active inhibitors, which are retained intracellularly with 10-fold enrichment for several days. These compounds were characterized for their potency, selectivity, modes of action, and on-target engagement. SKI-73 (6a) recapitulates the effect of CARM1 knockout against breast cancer cell invasion. Single-cell RNA-seq analysis revealed that the SKI-73(6a)-associated reduction of invasiveness acts by altering epigenetic plasticity and suppressing the invasion-prone subpopulation. Interestingly, SKI-73 (6a) and CARM1 knockout alter the epigenetic plasticity with remarkable difference, suggesting distinct modes of action for small-molecule and genetic perturbations. We therefore discovered a CARM1-addiction mechanism of cancer metastasis and developed a chemical probe to target this process.
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- 2019
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3. Hyperplastic and fibrosing gastropathy resembling Ménétrier disease in a cat
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Emi N Barker, Andrew S Holdsworth, Angie Hibbert, Peter J Brown, and Nicolette J Hayward
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Veterinary medicine ,SF600-1100 - Abstract
Case summary A 3.5-year-old domestic shorthair cat presented with a 6 month history of weight loss and polyphagia. Clinical examination revealed a markedly reduced body condition score (2/9) and a quiet demeanour. Laboratory abnormalities comprised a mild non-regenerative anaemia, stress leukogram, hypoproteinaemia due to hypoalbuminaemia, azotaemia, hypokalaemia, total hypocalcaemia and sub-maximally concentrated urine (specific gravity 1.020). Abdominal ultrasonography revealed marked thickening of the gastric mucosa within the fundus, body and pylorus; the most dorsal portion of the fundus was spared. The thickened mucosa contained multiple small, anechoic cyst-like structures. The gastric submucosa, muscularis and serosa appeared normal. Histopathology, performed on a full-thickness gastric biopsy, revealed mucosal hypertrophy and markedly dilated gastric glands in areas; not all gastric glands were affected, with some appearing normal or atrophic. Focal interstitial fibrosis was present in some areas. The findings of hypoproteinaemia, gastric ultrasonographic changes and histopathology results share several similarities to those reported with Ménétrier disease. Relevance and novel information Ménétrier disease is a rare condition of the stomach in humans. A similar condition, giant hypertrophic gastritis (or Ménétrier-like disease), has also been described rarely in dogs. To our knowledge, Ménétrier-like disease has not been previously described cats. This case shares features of Ménétrier-like disease, raising the suspicion of a similar aetiopathogenesis.
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- 2019
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4. The dynamic conformational landscape of the protein methyltransferase SETD8
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Shi Chen, Rafal P Wiewiora, Fanwang Meng, Nicolas Babault, Anqi Ma, Wenyu Yu, Kun Qian, Hao Hu, Hua Zou, Junyi Wang, Shijie Fan, Gil Blum, Fabio Pittella-Silva, Kyle A Beauchamp, Wolfram Tempel, Hualiang Jiang, Kaixian Chen, Robert J Skene, Yujun George Zheng, Peter J Brown, Jian Jin, Cheng Luo, John D Chodera, and Minkui Luo
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epigenetics ,posttranslational modification ,enzymology ,computational chemistry ,Medicine ,Science ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Elucidating the conformational heterogeneity of proteins is essential for understanding protein function and developing exogenous ligands. With the rapid development of experimental and computational methods, it is of great interest to integrate these approaches to illuminate the conformational landscapes of target proteins. SETD8 is a protein lysine methyltransferase (PKMT), which functions in vivo via the methylation of histone and nonhistone targets. Utilizing covalent inhibitors and depleting native ligands to trap hidden conformational states, we obtained diverse X-ray structures of SETD8. These structures were used to seed distributed atomistic molecular dynamics simulations that generated a total of six milliseconds of trajectory data. Markov state models, built via an automated machine learning approach and corroborated experimentally, reveal how slow conformational motions and conformational states are relevant to catalysis. These findings provide molecular insight on enzymatic catalysis and allosteric mechanisms of a PKMT via its detailed conformational landscape.
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- 2019
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5. Donated chemical probes for open science
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Susanne Müller, Suzanne Ackloo, Cheryl H Arrowsmith, Marcus Bauser, Jeremy L Baryza, Julian Blagg, Jark Böttcher, Chas Bountra, Peter J Brown, Mark E Bunnage, Adrian J Carter, David Damerell, Volker Dötsch, David H Drewry, Aled M Edwards, James Edwards, Jon M Elkins, Christian Fischer, Stephen V Frye, Andreas Gollner, Charles E Grimshaw, Adriaan IJzerman, Thomas Hanke, Ingo V Hartung, Steve Hitchcock, Trevor Howe, Terry V Hughes, Stefan Laufer, Volkhart MJ Li, Spiros Liras, Brian D Marsden, Hisanori Matsui, John Mathias, Ronan C O'Hagan, Dafydd R Owen, Vineet Pande, Daniel Rauh, Saul H Rosenberg, Bryan L Roth, Natalie S Schneider, Cora Scholten, Kumar Singh Saikatendu, Anton Simeonov, Masayuki Takizawa, Chris Tse, Paul R Thompson, Daniel K Treiber, Amélia YI Viana, Carrow I Wells, Timothy M Willson, William J Zuercher, Stefan Knapp, and Anke Mueller-Fahrnow
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Chemical probes ,Target validation ,Open Science ,Medicine ,Science ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Potent, selective and broadly characterized small molecule modulators of protein function (chemical probes) are powerful research reagents. The pharmaceutical industry has generated many high-quality chemical probes and several of these have been made available to academia. However, probe-associated data and control compounds, such as inactive structurally related molecules and their associated data, are generally not accessible. The lack of data and guidance makes it difficult for researchers to decide which chemical tools to choose. Several pharmaceutical companies (AbbVie, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Janssen, MSD, Pfizer, and Takeda) have therefore entered into a pre-competitive collaboration to make available a large number of innovative high-quality probes, including all probe-associated data, control compounds and recommendations on use (https://openscienceprobes.sgc-frankfurt.de/). Here we describe the chemical tools and target-related knowledge that have been made available, and encourage others to join the project.
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- 2018
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6. Hemi-methylated DNA regulates DNA methylation inheritance through allosteric activation of H3 ubiquitylation by UHRF1
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Joseph S Harrison, Evan M Cornett, Dennis Goldfarb, Paul A DaRosa, Zimeng M Li, Feng Yan, Bradley M Dickson, Angela H Guo, Daniel V Cantu, Lilia Kaustov, Peter J Brown, Cheryl H Arrowsmith, Dorothy A Erie, Michael B Major, Rachel E Klevit, Krzysztof Krajewski, Brian Kuhlman, Brian D Strahl, and Scott B Rothbart
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DNA methylation ,ubiquitin ,histone post-translational modifications ,UHRF1 ,ubiquitylation ,epigenetics ,Medicine ,Science ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
The epigenetic inheritance of DNA methylation requires UHRF1, a histone- and DNA-binding RING E3 ubiquitin ligase that recruits DNMT1 to sites of newly replicated DNA through ubiquitylation of histone H3. UHRF1 binds DNA with selectivity towards hemi-methylated CpGs (HeDNA); however, the contribution of HeDNA sensing to UHRF1 function remains elusive. Here, we reveal that the interaction of UHRF1 with HeDNA is required for DNA methylation but is dispensable for chromatin interaction, which is governed by reciprocal positive cooperativity between the UHRF1 histone- and DNA-binding domains. HeDNA recognition activates UHRF1 ubiquitylation towards multiple lysines on the H3 tail adjacent to the UHRF1 histone-binding site. Collectively, our studies are the first demonstrations of a DNA-protein interaction and an epigenetic modification directly regulating E3 ubiquitin ligase activity. They also define an orchestrated epigenetic control mechanism involving modifications both to histones and DNA that facilitate UHRF1 chromatin targeting, H3 ubiquitylation, and DNA methylation inheritance.
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- 2016
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7. Structure of the catalytic domain of EZH2 reveals conformational plasticity in cofactor and substrate binding sites and explains oncogenic mutations.
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Hong Wu, Hong Zeng, Aiping Dong, Fengling Li, Hao He, Guillermo Senisterra, Alma Seitova, Shili Duan, Peter J Brown, Masoud Vedadi, Cheryl H Arrowsmith, and Matthieu Schapira
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is an important regulator of cellular differentiation and cell type identity. Overexpression or activating mutations of EZH2, the catalytic component of the PRC2 complex, are linked to hyper-trimethylation of lysine 27 of histone H3 (H3K27me3) in many cancers. Potent EZH2 inhibitors that reduce levels of H3K27me3 kill mutant lymphoma cells and are efficacious in a mouse xenograft model of malignant rhabdoid tumors. Unlike most SET domain methyltransferases, EZH2 requires PRC2 components, SUZ12 and EED, for activity, but the mechanism by which catalysis is promoted in the PRC2 complex is unknown. We solved the 2.0 Å crystal structure of the EZH2 methyltransferase domain revealing that most of the canonical structural features of SET domain methyltransferase structures are conserved. The site of methyl transfer is in a catalytically competent state, and the structure clarifies the structural mechanism underlying oncogenic hyper-trimethylation of H3K27 in tumors harboring mutations at Y641 or A677. On the other hand, the I-SET and post-SET domains occupy atypical positions relative to the core SET domain resulting in incomplete formation of the cofactor binding site and occlusion of the substrate binding groove. A novel CXC domain N-terminal to the SET domain may contribute to the apparent inactive conformation. We propose that protein interactions within the PRC2 complex modulate the trajectory of the post-SET and I-SET domains of EZH2 in favor of a catalytically competent conformation.
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- 2013
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8. 1991T-like Supernovae*
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M. M. Phillips, C. Ashall, Peter J. Brown, L. Galbany, M. A. Tucker, Christopher R. Burns, Carlos Contreras, P. Hoeflich, E. Y. Hsiao, S. Kumar, Nidia Morrell, Syed A. Uddin, E. Baron, Wendy L. Freedman, Kevin Krisciunas, S. E. Persson, Anthony L. Piro, B. J. Shappee, Maximilian Stritzinger, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Sudeshna Chakraborty, R. P. Kirshner, J. Lu, G. H. Marion, Abigail Polin, and M. Shahbandeh
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- 2024
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9. Extended Shock Breakout and Early Circumstellar Interaction in SN 2024ggi
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Manisha Shrestha, K. Azalee Bostroem, David J. Sand, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Jennifer E. Andrews, Yize Dong, Emily Hoang, Daryl Janzen, Jeniveve Pearson, Jacob E. Jencson, M. J. Lundquist, Darshana Mehta, Aravind P. Ravi, Nicolás Meza Retamal, Stefano Valenti, Peter J. Brown, Saurabh W. Jha, Colin Macrie, Brian Hsu, Joseph Farah, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Megan Newsome, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Craig Pellegrino, Giacomo Terreran, Lindsey Kwok, Nathan Smith, Michaela Schwab, Aidan Martas, Ricardo R. Munoz, Gustavo E. Medina, Ting S. Li, Paula Diaz, Daichi Hiramatsu, Brad E. Tucker, J. C. Wheeler, Xiaofeng Wang, Qian Zhai, Jujia Zhang, Anjasha Gangopadhyay, Yi Yang, and Claudia P. Gutiérrez
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Core-collapse supernovae ,Type II supernovae ,Red supergiant stars ,Stellar mass loss ,Circumstellar matter ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
We present high-cadence photometric and spectroscopic observations of supernova (SN) 2024ggi, a Type II SN with flash spectroscopy features, which exploded in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 at ∼7 Mpc. The light-curve evolution over the first 30 hr can be fit by two power-law indices with a break after 22 hr, rising from M _V ≈ −12.95 mag at +0.66 day to M _V ≈ −17.91 mag after 7 days. In addition, the densely sampled color curve shows a strong blueward evolution over the first few days and then behaves as a normal SN II with a redward evolution as the ejecta cool. Such deviations could be due to interaction with circumstellar material (CSM). Early high- and low-resolution spectra clearly show high-ionization flash features from the first spectrum to +3.42 days after the explosion. From the high-resolution spectra, we calculate the CSM velocity to be 37 ± 4 km s ^−1 . We also see the line strength evolve rapidly from 1.22 to 1.49 days in the earliest high-resolution spectra. Comparison of the low-resolution spectra with CMFGEN models suggests that the pre-explosion mass-loss rate of SN 2024ggi falls in the range of 10 ^−3 –10 ^−2 M _☉ yr ^−1 , which is similar to that derived for SN 2023ixf. However, the rapid temporal evolution of the narrow lines in the spectra of SN 2024ggi ( R _CSM ∼ 2.7 × 10 ^14 cm) could indicate a smaller spatial extent of the CSM than in SN 2023ixf ( R _CSM ∼ 5.4 × 10 ^14 cm), which in turn implies a lower total CSM mass for SN 2024ggi.
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- 2024
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10. Artificial Intelligence Assisted Inversion (AIAI): Quantifying the Spectral Features of 56Ni of Type Ia Supernovae
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Xingzhuo Chen, Lifan Wang, Lei Hu, and Peter J. Brown
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Type Ia supernovae ,Convolutional neural networks ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
Following our previous study of Artificial Intelligence Assisted Inversion (AIAI) of supernova analyses, we train a set of deep neural networks based on the 1D radiative transfer code TARDIS to simulate the optical spectra of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) between 10 and 40 days after the explosion. The neural networks are applied to derive the mass of ^56 Ni in velocity ranges above the photosphere for a sample of 124 well-observed SNe Ia in the TARDIS model context. A subset of the SNe have multi-epoch observations for which the decay of the radioactive ^56 Ni can be used to test the AIAI quantitatively. The ^56 Ni mass derived from AIAI using the observed spectra as inputs for this subset agrees with the radioactive decay rate of ^56 Ni. AIAI reveals that a spectral signature near 3890 Å is related to the Ni ii 4067Å line, and the ^56 Ni mass deduced from AIAI is found to be correlated with the light-curve shapes of SNe Ia, with SNe Ia with broader light curves showing larger ^56 Ni mass in the envelope above the photosphere. AIAI enables spectral data of SNe to be quantitatively analyzed under theoretical frameworks based on well-defined physical assumptions.
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- 2024
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11. Extrapolation of Type Ia Supernova Spectra into the Near-infrared Using Principal Component Analysis
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Anthony Burrow, E. Baron, Christopher R. Burns, Eric Y. Hsiao, Jing Lu, Chris Ashall, Peter J. Brown, James M. DerKacy, G. Folatelli, Lluís Galbany, P. Hoeflich, Kevin Krisciunas, N. Morrell, M. M. Phillips, Benjamin J. Shappee, Maximilian D. Stritzinger, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff
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Type Ia supernovae ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
We present a method of extrapolating the spectroscopic behavior of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the near-infrared (NIR) wavelength regime up to 2.30 μ m using optical spectroscopy. Such a process is useful for accurately estimating K-corrections and other photometric quantities of SNe Ia in the NIR. A principal component analysis is performed on data consisting of Carnegie Supernova Project I & II optical and NIR FIRE spectra to produce models capable of making these extrapolations. This method differs from previous spectral template methods by not parameterizing models strictly by photometric light-curve properties of SNe Ia, allowing for more flexibility of the resulting extrapolated NIR flux. A difference of around −3.1% to −2.7% in the total integrated NIR flux between these extrapolations and the observations is seen here for most test cases including Branch core-normal and shallow-silicon subtypes. However, larger deviations from the observation are found for other tests, likely due to the limited high-velocity and broad-line SNe Ia in the training sample. Maximum-light principal components are shown to allow for spectroscopic predictions of the color-stretch light-curve parameter, s _BV , within approximately ±0.1 units of the value measured with photometry. We also show these results compare well with NIR templates, although in most cases the templates are marginally more fitting to observations, illustrating a need for more concurrent optical+NIR spectroscopic observations to truly understand the diversity of SNe Ia in the NIR.
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12. Carnegie Supernova Project I and II: Measurements of H 0 Using Cepheid, Tip of the Red Giant Branch, and Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distance Calibration to Type Ia Supernovae
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Syed A. Uddin, Christopher R. Burns, M M. Phillips, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Wendy L. Freedman, Peter J. Brown, Nidia Morrell, Mario Hamuy, Kevin Krisciunas, Lifan Wang, Eric Y. Hsiao, Ariel Goobar, Saul Perlmutter, Jing Lu, Maximilian Stritzinger, Joseph P. Anderson, Chris Ashall, Peter Hoeflich, Benjamin J. Shappee, S. E. Persson, Anthony L. Piro, E Baron, Carlos Contreras, Lluís Galbany, Sahana Kumar, Melissa Shahbandeh, Scott Davis, Jorge Anais, Luis Busta, Abdo Campillay, Sergio Castellón, Carlos Corco, Tiara Diamond, Christa Gall, Consuelo Gonzalez, Simon Holmbo, Miguel Roth, Jacqueline Serón, Francesco Taddia, Simón Torres, Charles Baltay, Gastón Folatelli, Ellie Hadjiyska, Mansi Kasliwal, Peter E. Nugent, David Rabinowitz, and Stuart D. Ryder
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Type Ia supernovae ,Distance indicators ,Observational cosmology ,Hubble constant ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
We present an analysis of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Carnegie Supernova Project I and II and extend the Hubble diagram from optical to near-infrared wavelengths ( uBgVriYJH ). We calculate the Hubble constant, H _0 , using various distance calibrators: Cepheids, the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB), and surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs). Combining all methods of calibration, we derive H _0 = 71.76 ± 0.58 (stat) ± 1.19 (sys) km s ^−1 Mpc ^−1 from the B band and H _0 = 73.22 ± 0.68 (stat) ± 1.28 (sys) km s ^−1 Mpc ^−1 from the H band. By assigning equal weight to the Cepheid, TRGB, and SBF calibrators, we derive the systematic errors required for consistency in the first rung of the distance ladder, resulting in a systematic error of 1.2 ∼ 1.3 km s ^−1 Mpc ^−1 in H _0 . As a result, relative to the statistics-only uncertainty, the tension between the late-time H _0 we derive by combining the various distance calibrators and the early-time H _0 from the cosmic microwave background is reduced. The highest precision in SN Ia luminosity is found in the Y band (0.12 ± 0.01 mag), as defined by the intrinsic scatter ( σ _int ). We revisit SN Ia Hubble residual-host mass correlations and recover previous results that these correlations do not change significantly between the optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Finally, SNe Ia that explode beyond 10 kpc from their host centers exhibit smaller dispersion in their luminosity, confirming our earlier findings. A reduced effect of dust in the outskirts of hosts may be responsible for this effect.
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- 2024
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13. Circumstellar Interaction Signatures in the Low-luminosity Type II SN 2021gmj
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Nicolás Meza-Retamal, Yize Dong, K. Azalee Bostroem, Stefano Valenti, Lluís Galbany, Jeniveve Pearson, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Jennifer E. Andrews, David J. Sand, Jacob E. Jencson, Daryl Janzen, Michael J. Lundquist, Emily T. Hoang, Samuel Wyatt, Peter J. Brown, D. Andrew Howell, Megan Newsome, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Craig Pellegrino, Giacomo Terreran, Vladimir Kouprianov, Daichi Hiramatsu, Saurabh W. Jha, Nathan Smith, Joshua Haislip, Daniel E. Reichart, Manisha Shrestha, F. Fabián Rosales-Ortega, Thomas G. Brink, Alexei V. Filippenko, WeiKang Zheng, and Yi Yang
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Core-collapse supernovae ,Type II supernovae ,Circumstellar matter ,Stellar mass loss ,Red supergiant stars ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
We present comprehensive optical observations of SN 2021gmj, a Type II supernova (SN II) discovered within a day of explosion by the Distance Less Than 40 Mpc survey. Follow-up observations show that SN 2021gmj is a low-luminosity SN II (LL SN II), with a peak magnitude M _V = −15.45 and an Fe ii velocity of ∼1800 km s ^−1 at 50 days past explosion. Using the expanding photosphere method, we derive a distance of ${17.8}_{-0.4}^{+0.6}$ Mpc. From the tail of the light curve we obtain a radioactive nickel mass of ${M}_{{}^{56}\mathrm{Ni}}$ = 0.014 ± 0.001 M _⊙ . The presence of circumstellar material (CSM) is suggested by the early-time light curve, early spectra, and high-velocity H α in absorption. Analytical shock-cooling models of the light curve cannot reproduce the fast rise, supporting the idea that the early-time emission is partially powered by the interaction of the SN ejecta and CSM. The inferred low CSM mass of 0.025 M _⊙ in our hydrodynamic-modeling light-curve analysis is also consistent with our spectroscopy. We observe a broad feature near 4600 Å, which may be high-ionization lines of C, N, or/and He ii . This feature is reproduced by radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of red supergiants with extended atmospheres. Several LL SNe II show similar spectral features, implying that high-density material around the progenitor may be common among them.
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- 2024
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14. Shock Cooling and Possible Precursor Emission in the Early Light Curve of the Type II SN 2023ixf
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Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Joseph Farah, Manisha Shrestha, David J. Sand, Yize Dong, Peter J. Brown, K. Azalee Bostroem, Stefano Valenti, Saurabh W. Jha, Jennifer E. Andrews, Iair Arcavi, Joshua Haislip, Daichi Hiramatsu, Emily Hoang, D. Andrew Howell, Daryl Janzen, Jacob E. Jencson, Vladimir Kouprianov, Michael Lundquist, Curtis McCully, Nicolas E. Meza Retamal, Maryam Modjaz, Megan Newsome, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Jeniveve Pearson, Craig Pellegrino, Aravind P. Ravi, Daniel E. Reichart, Nathan Smith, Giacomo Terreran, and József Vinkó
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Circumstellar matter ,Core-collapse supernovae ,Red supergiant stars ,Stellar mass loss ,Supernovae ,Type II supernovae ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
We present the densely sampled early light curve of the Type II supernova (SN) 2023ixf, first observed within hours of explosion in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101; 6.7 Mpc). Comparing these data to recently updated models of shock-cooling emission, we find that the progenitor likely had a radius of 410 ± 10 R _⊙ . Our estimate is model dependent but consistent with a red supergiant. These models provide a good fit to the data starting about 1 day after the explosion, despite the fact that the classification spectrum shows signatures of circumstellar material around SN 2023ixf during that time. Photometry during the first day after the explosion, provided almost entirely by amateur astronomers, does not agree with the shock-cooling models or a simple power-law rise fit to data after 1 day. We consider the possible causes of this discrepancy, including precursor activity from the progenitor star, circumstellar interaction, and emission from the shock before or after it breaks out of the stellar surface. The very low luminosity (−11 mag > M > −14 mag) and short duration of the initial excess lead us to prefer a scenario related to prolonged emission from the SN shock traveling through the progenitor system.
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- 2023
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15. Early-time Ultraviolet and Optical Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of the Type II Supernova 2022wsp
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Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Christian Vogl, Yi Yang, Alexei V. Filippenko, Thomas G. Brink, Peter J. Brown, Thomas Matheson, Maryam Modjaz, Avishay Gal-Yam, Paolo A. Mazzali, Thomas de Jaeger, Kishore C. Patra, and Gabrielle E. Stewart
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Ultraviolet spectroscopy ,Spectroscopy ,Astrophysics ,QB460-466 - Abstract
We report early-time ultraviolet (UV) and optical spectroscopy of the young, nearby Type II supernova (SN) 2022wsp obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/STIS at about 10 and 20 days after the explosion. The SN 2022wsp UV spectra are compared to those of other well-observed Type II/IIP SNe, including the recently studied Type IIP SN 2021yja. Both SNe exhibit rapid cooling and similar evolution during early phases, indicating a common behavior among SNe II. Radiative-transfer modeling of the spectra of SN 2022wsp with the TARDIS code indicates a steep radial density profile in the outer layer of the ejecta, a solar metallicity, and a relatively high total extinction of E ( B − V ) = 0.35 mag. The early-time evolution of the photospheric velocity and temperature derived from the modeling agree with the behavior observed from other previously studied cases. The strong suppression of hydrogen Balmer lines in the spectra suggests interaction with a preexisting circumstellar environment could be occurring at early times. In the SN 2022wsp spectra, the absorption component of the Mg ii P Cygni profile displays a double-trough feature on day +10 that disappears by day +20. The shape is well reproduced by the model without fine-tuning the parameters, suggesting that the secondary blueward dip is a metal transition that originates in the SN ejecta.
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- 2023
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16. A Swift Response to Newly Discovered, Nearby Transients
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Peter J. Brown, Macie Robertson, Yaswant Devarakonda, Emily Sarria, David Pooley, and Maximilian D. Stritzinger
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time domain astronomy (2109) ,transient sources (1851) ,supernovae (1668) ,ultraviolet astronomy(1736) ,ultraviolet Telescopes (1743) ,ultraviolet transient sources (1854) ,Elementary particle physics ,QC793-793.5 - Abstract
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has proven to be an extraordinary supernova (SN) observatory. The clearest application of Swift’s unique strengths is obtaining very early UV and X-ray data of young SNe, which enables robust constraints on their progenitor systems. As part of a year-long Swift Guest Investigator Key Project, we initiated a follow-up program to rapidly observe all of the nearest (distance < 35 Mpc or roughly z < 0.008) extragalactic transients without waiting for them to be spectroscopically classified as supernovae. Among the possible results were to measure any UV-bright radiative cooling following the shock breakout from core-collapse SNe and shock emission from the interaction of thermonuclear Type Ia SNe with a non-degenerate companion. Just as importantly, uniformly following up and analyzing a significant sample can constrain the fraction of events for which the shock emission is not seen. Here we present the UV and X-ray measurements performed during our campaign. Our sample of 24 observed triggers included three SNe Ia, six SNe II, three stripped-envelope, core-collapse SNe, five galactic transients, three extragalactic SN imposters, and four unconfirmed transients. For our sample, the median delay time from the discovery image to the first Swift image was 1.45 days. We tabulate the X-ray upper limits and find they are sufficiently deep to have detected objects as X-ray luminous as GRB060218/SN2006aj. Other X-ray-detected SNe such as SNe 2006bp, 2008D, and 2011dh would have been detectable in some of the observations. We highlight the spectroscopically classified Type II SN 2018hna with UV-optical light curves indicating a luminosity and flux evolution very similar to SN 1987A.
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- 2023
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17. SN 2022acko: The First Early Far-ultraviolet Spectra of a Type IIP Supernova
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K. Azalee Bostroem, Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Michael Lundquist, Jennifer E. Andrews, David J. 一泽 Sand 董, Yize Dong, Stefano Valenti, Joshua Haislip, Emily T. Hoang, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Daryl Janzen, Jacob E. Jencson, Saurabh W. Jha, Vladimir Kouprianov, Jeniveve Pearson, Nicolas E. Meza Retamal, Daniel E. Reichart, Manisha Shrestha, Christopher Ashall, E. Baron, Peter J. Brown, James M. DerKacy, Joseph Farah, Lluís Galbany, J. I. González Hernández, Elizabeth Green, Peter Hoeflich, D. Andrew Howell, Lindsey A. Kwok, Curtis McCully, Tomás E. Müller-Bravo, Megan Newsome, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Craig Pellegrino, Jeonghee Rho, Micalyn Rowe, Michaela Schwab, Melissa Shahbandeh, Nathan Smith, Jay Strader, Giacomo Terreran, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, and Samuel Wyatt
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- 2023
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18. Significant luminosity differences of two twin Type Ia supernovae
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Ryan J Foley, Samantha L Hoffmann, Lucas M Macri, Adam G Riess, Peter J Brown, Alexei V Filippenko, Melissa L Graham, and Peter A Milne
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- 2019
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19. Using 1991T/1999aa-like Type Ia Supernovae as Standardizable Candles
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Jiawen Yang, Lifan Wang, Nicholas Suntzeff, Lei Hu, Lauren Aldoroty, Peter J. Brown, Kevin Krisciunas, Iair Arcavi, Jamison Burke, Lluís Galbany, Daichi Hiramatsu, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Craig Pellegrino, and Stefano Valenti
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- 2022
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20. Comparisons of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves in the UV and Optical with the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope
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Yaswant Devarakonda and Peter J. Brown
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- 2022
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21. Galaxian Contamination in Galactic Reddening Maps
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Peter J. Brown and Tate Walker
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22. Discovery and characterization of a chemical probe targeting the zinc-finger ubiquitin-binding domain of HDAC6
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Rachel J. Harding, Ivan Franzoni, Mandeep K. Mann, Magdalena M. Szewczyk, Bijan Mirabi, Dominic D.G Owens, Suzanne Ackloo, Alexej Scheremetjew, Kevin A. Juarez-Ornelas, Randy Sanichar, Rachel J. Baker, Christian Dank, Peter J. Brown, Dalia Barsyte-Lovejoy, Vijayaratnam Santhakumar, Matthieu Schapira, Mark Lautens, and Cheryl H. Arrowsmith
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open source ,ubiquitin binding domain ,chemical tool ,ubiquitin ,chemical probe ,UBD ,HDAC6 - Abstract
These data are the R scripts, environments, output used for analyzing chemoproteomics data. The volcano plot shown in the manuscript is based on the DEP R package. To validate the enrichment output from DEP, the proteomics data was also processed with the proDA package. Filename (7 files) Description combined_protein_Int.txt Output from database search hdac6_dep_submitted.R script used to process data (from DEP package) hdac6_dep_submitted.R.RData workspace environment from DEP package hdac6probecontrol_dep.csv exported list of p-value and fold-change from DEP hdac6probecontrol_proda.csv exported list of p-value and fold-change from proDA hdac6proda_submitted.R proDA script hdac6proda_submitted.RData proDA workspace environment, PXD039880 - the raw data is also uploaded to PRIDE.
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23. Carnegie Supernova Project: Classification of Type Ia Supernovae
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Anthony Burrow, E. Baron, Chris Ashall, Christopher R. Burns, N. Morrell, Maximilian D. Stritzinger, Peter J. Brown, G. Folatelli, Wendy L. Freedman, Lluís Galbany, P. Hoeflich, Eric Y. Hsiao, Kevin Krisciunas, M. M. Phillips, Anthony L. Piro, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, and Syed Uddin
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24. Ultraviolet Line Identifications and Spectral Formation Near Max Light in Type Ia Supernova 2011fe
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James M. DerKacy, E. Baron, David Branch, Peter Hoeflich, Peter Hauschildt, Peter J. Brown, and Lifan Wang
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25. Microbial ecosystem responses to alkalinity enhancement in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
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Adam V. Subhas, Lukas Marx, Sarah Reynolds, Anita Flohr, Edward W. Mawji, Peter J. Brown, and B. B. Cael
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Atmospheric Science ,Global and Planetary Change ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Environmental Science (miscellaneous) ,Pollution - Abstract
In addition to reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere is widely considered necessary to keep global warming well below 2°C. Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) describes a suite of such CO2 removal processes that all involve enhancing the buffering capacity of seawater. In theory, OAE both stores carbon and offsets ocean acidification. In practice, the response of the marine biogeochemical system to OAE must be demonstrably negligible, or at least manageable, before it can be deployed at scale. We tested the OAE response of two natural seawater mixed layer microbial communities in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, one at the Western gyre boundary, and one in the middle of the gyre. We conducted 4-day microcosm incubation experiments at sea, spiked with three increasing amounts of alkaline sodium salts and a 13C-bicarbonate tracer at constant pCO2. We then measured a suite of dissolved and particulate parameters to constrain the chemical and biological response to these additions. Microbial communities demonstrated occasionally measurable, but mostly negligible, responses to alkalinity enhancement. Neither site showed a significant increase in biologically produced CaCO3, even at extreme alkalinity loadings of +2,000 μmol kg−1. At the gyre boundary, alkalinity enhancement did not significantly impact net primary production rates. In contrast, net primary production in the central gyre decreased by ~30% in response to alkalinity enhancement. The central gyre incubations demonstrated a shift toward smaller particle size classes, suggesting that OAE may impact community composition and/or aggregation/disaggregation processes. In terms of chemical effects, we identify equilibration of seawater pCO2, inorganic CaCO3 precipitation, and immediate effects during mixing of alkaline solutions with seawater, as important considerations for developing experimental OAE methodologies, and for practical OAE deployment. These initial results underscore the importance of performing more studies of OAE in diverse marine environments, and the need to investigate the coupling between OAE, inorganic processes, and microbial community composition.
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26. Infant-phase reddening by surface Fe-peak elements in a normal type Ia supernova
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Yuan Qi Ni, Dae-Sik Moon, Maria R. Drout, Abigail Polin, David J. Sand, Santiago González-Gaitán, Sang Chul Kim, Youngdae Lee, Hong Soo Park, D. Andrew Howell, Peter E. Nugent, Anthony L. Piro, Peter J. Brown, Lluís Galbany, Jamison Burke, Daichi Hiramatsu, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Stefano Valenti, Niloufar Afsariardchi, Jennifer E. Andrews, John Antoniadis, Iair Arcavi, Rachael L. Beaton, K. Azalee Bostroem, Raymond G. Carlberg, S. Bradley Cenko, Sang-Mok Cha, Yize Dong, Avishay Gal-Yam, Joshua Haislip, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, Sean D. Johnson, Vladimir Kouprianov, Yongseok Lee, Christopher D. Matzner, Nidia Morrell, Curtis McCully, Giuliano Pignata, Daniel E. Reichart, Jeffrey Rich, Stuart D. Ryder, Nathan Smith, Samuel Wyatt, Sheng Yang, National Research Council of Canada, University of Toronto, Heising Simons Foundation, National Research Foundation of Korea, National Science Foundation (US), Israel Science Foundation, European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
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Pediatric ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,High-energy astrophysics ,Transient astrophysical phenomena ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Time-domain astronomy ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Stars ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) - Abstract
Ni, Y. Q., et al., Type Ia supernovae are thermonuclear explosions of white dwarf stars. They play a central role in the chemical evolution of the Universe and are an important measure of cosmological distances. However, outstanding questions remain about their origins. Despite extensive efforts to obtain natal information from their earliest signals, observations have thus far failed to identify how the majority of them explode. Here, we present infant-phase detections of SN 2018aoz from a very low brightness of −10.5 AB absolute magnitude, revealing a hitherto unseen plateau in the B band that results in a rapid redward colour evolution between 1.0 and 12.4 hours after the estimated epoch of first light. The missing B-band flux is best explained by line-blanket absorption from Fe-peak elements in the outer 1% of the ejected mass. The observed B − V colour evolution of the supernova also matches the prediction from an over-density of Fe-peak elements in the same outer 1% of the ejected mass, whereas bluer colours are expected from a purely monotonic distribution of Fe-peak elements. The presence of excess nucleosynthetic material in the extreme outer layers of the ejecta points to enhanced surface nuclear burning or extended subsonic mixing processes in some normal type Ia SN explosions., D.-S.M., M.R.D. and C.D.M. are supported by Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. D.-S.M. was supported in part by a Leading Edge Fund from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (project no. 30951). M.R.D. was supported in part by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto. D.J.S. acknowledges support by NSF grant nos. AST-1821987, 1821967 and 1908972 and from the Heising–Simons Foundation under grant no. 2020-1864. S.G.-G. acknowledges support by FCT under project CRISP PTDC/FIS-AST-31546 and project UIDB/00099/2020. H.S.P. was supported in part by a National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT, Ministry of Science and ICT; no. NRF-2019R1F1A1058228). P.J.B. acknowledges support from the Swift GI program 80NSSC19K0316. S.V., Y.D. and K.A.B. acknowledge support by NSF grant nos. AST-1813176 and AST-2008108. C.M. acknowledges support by NSF grant AST-1313484. I.A. is a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar in the Gravity and the Extreme Universe Program and acknowledges support from that program, from the Israel Science Foundation (grant nos. 2108/18 and 2752/19), from the United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) and from an Israeli Council for Higher Education Alon Fellowship. R.L.B. acknowledges support by NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant no. 51386.01 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA under contract no. NAS 5-26555. A.G.-Y. acknowledges support from the European Union via ERC grant no. 725161, the ISF GW Excellence Center, an IMOS space infrastructure grant and BSF/Transformative and GIF grants, as well as from the Benoziyo Endowment Fund for the Advancement of Science, the Deloro Institute for Advanced Research in Space and Optics, the Veronika A. Rabl Physics Discretionary Fund, P. and T. Gardner, the Yeda-Sela Center for Basic Research and a WIS-CIT joint research grant. A.G.-Y. is the recipient of the Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for Innovative Investigation. L.G. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) 10.13039/501100011033, the European Social Fund (ESF) ‘Investing in your future’ under the 2019 Ramón y Cajal program RYC2019-027683-I and the PID2020-115253GA-I00 HOSTFLOWS project, as well as from the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) under the PIE project 20215AT016. G.P. acknowledges support from the Millennium Science Initiative through grant no. IC120009. J.A. is supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the 2nd Call of ‘Science and Society’ Action ‘Always strive for excellence – Theodoros Papazoglou’ (project no. 01431).
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27. GLODAPv2.2022: the latest version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product
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Siv K. Lauvset, Nico Lange, Toste Tanhua, Henry C. Bittig, Are Olsen, Alex Kozyr, Simone R. Alin, Marta Álvarez, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Leticia Barbero, Susan Becker, Peter J. Brown, Brendan R. Carter, Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, Richard A. Feely, Mario Hoppema, Matthew P. Humphreys, Masao Ishii, Emil Jeansson, Li-Qing Jiang, Steve D. Jones, Claire Lo Monaco, Akihiko Murata, Jens Daniel Müller, Fiz F. Pérez, Benjamin Pfeil, Carsten Schirnick, Reiner Steinfeldt, Toru Suzuki, Bronte Tilbrook, Adam Ulfsbo, Anton Velo, Ryan J. Woosley, Robert M. Key, NORCE Norwegian Research Center, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel] (GEOMAR), Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Geophysical Institute [Bergen] (GFI / BiU), University of Bergen (UiB), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory [Newport] (PMEL), Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Málaga., Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami [Coral Gables]-University of Miami [Coral Gables], Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego), University of California [San Diego] (UC San Diego), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), National Oceanography Centre [Southampton] (NOC), University of Southampton, University of Washington (Tacoma), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro [Rio de Janeiro] (UERJ), Alfred Wegener Institute [Potsdam], Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Meteorological Research Institute [Tsukuba] (MRI), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Earth Science System Interdisciplinary Center [College Park] (ESSIC), College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System-University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Cycles biogéochimiques marins : processus et perturbations (CYBIOM), Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Research Institute for Global Change (RIGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics [ETH Zürich] (IBP), Department of Environmental Systems Science [ETH Zürich] (D-USYS), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich)- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich] (ETH Zürich), Instituto de Investigacions Marinas, Institute of Environmental Physics [Bremen] (IUP), University of Bremen, Marine Information Research Center, CISRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Department of Marine Sciences [Gothenburg], University of Gothenburg (GU), Center for Global Change Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program [Princeton] (AOS Program), NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Princeton University
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The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a synthesis effort providing regular compilations of surface-to-bottom ocean biogeochemical bottle data, with an emphasis on seawater inorganic carbon chemistry and related variables determined through chemical analysis of seawater samples. GLODAPv2.2022 is an update of the previous version, GLODAPv2.2021 (Lauvset et al., 2021). The major changes are as follows: data from 96 new cruises were added, data coverage was extended until 2021, and for the first time we performed secondary quality control on all sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) data. In addition, a number of changes were made to data included in GLODAPv2.2021. These changes affect specifically the SF6 data, which are now subjected to secondary quality control, and carbon data measured on board the RV Knorr in the Indian Ocean in 1994–1995 which are now adjusted using certified reference material (CRM) measurements made at the time. GLODAPv2.2022 includes measurements from almost 1.4 million water samples from the global oceans collected on 1085 cruises. The data for the now 13 GLODAP core variables (salinity, oxygen, nitrate, silicate, phosphate, dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, pH, chlorofluorocarbon-11 (CFC-11), CFC-12, CFC-113, CCl4, and SF6) have undergone extensive quality control with a focus on systematic evaluation of bias. The data are available in two formats: (i) as submitted by the data originator but converted to World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) exchange format and (ii) as a merged data product with adjustments applied to minimize bias. For the present annual update, adjustments for the 96 new cruises were derived by comparing those data with the data from the 989 quality-controlled cruises in the GLODAPv2.2021 data product using crossover analysis. SF6 data from all cruises were evaluated by comparison with CFC-12 data measured on the same cruises. For nutrients and ocean carbon dioxide (CO2) chemistry comparisons to estimates based on empirical algorithms provided additional context for adjustment decisions. The adjustments that we applied are intended to remove potential biases from errors related to measurement, calibration, and data handling practices without removing known or likely time trends or variations in the variables evaluated. The compiled and adjusted data product is believed to be consistent to better than 0.005 in salinity, 1 % in oxygen, 2 % in nitrate, 2 % in silicate, 2 % in phosphate, 4 µmol kg−1 in dissolved inorganic carbon, 4 µmol kg−1 in total alkalinity, 0.01–0.02 in pH (depending on region), and 5 % in the halogenated transient tracers. The other variables included in the compilation, such as isotopic tracers and discrete CO2 fugacity (f CO2), were not subjected to bias comparison or adjustments. The original data, their documentation, and DOI codes are available at the Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System of NOAA NCEI (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/ocean-carbon-acidification-data-system/oceans/GLODAPv2_2022/, last access: 15 August 2022). This site also provides access to the merged data product, which is provided as a single global file and as four regional ones – the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans – under https://doi.org/10.25921/1f4w-0t92 (Lauvset et al., 2022). These bias-adjusted product files also include significant ancillary and approximated data, which were obtained by interpolation of, or calculation from, measured data. This living data update documents the GLODAPv2.2022 methods and provides a broad overview of the secondary quality control procedures and results., Earth System Science Data, 14 (12), ISSN:1866-3516, ISSN:1866-3508
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28. The Pantheon+ analysis : the full data set and light-curve release
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Dan Scolnic, Dillon Brout, Anthony Carr, Adam G. Riess, Tamara M. Davis, Arianna Dwomoh, David O. Jones, Noor Ali, Pranav Charvu, Rebecca Chen, Erik R. Peterson, Brodie Popovic, Benjamin M. Rose, Charlotte M. Wood, Peter J. Brown, Ken Chambers, David A. Coulter, Kyle G. Dettman, Georgios Dimitriadis, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Saurabh W. Jha, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Robert P. Kirshner, Yen-Chen Pan, Armin Rest, Cesar Rojas-Bravo, Matthew R. Siebert, Benjamin E. Stahl, and WeiKang Zheng
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
Here we present 1701 light curves of 1550 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that will be used to infer cosmological parameters as part of the Pantheon+ SN analysis and the SH0ES (Supernovae and H0 for the Equation of State of dark energy) distance-ladder analysis. This effort is one part of a series of works that perform an extensive review of redshifts, peculiar velocities, photometric calibration, and intrinsic-scatter models of SNe Ia. The total number of light curves, which are compiled across 18 different surveys, is a significant increase from the first Pantheon analysis (1048 SNe), particularly at low redshift ($z$). Furthermore, unlike in the Pantheon analysis, we include light curves for SNe with $z, Submitted to ApJL. Comments welcome. Papers and data release here: https://github.com/PantheonPlusSH0ES/PantheonPlusSH0ES.github.io
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29. The influence of organic alkalinity on the carbonate system in coastal waters
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Brian P. Kelleher, Daniel E. Kerr, Anthony Grey, and Peter J. Brown
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Bicarbonate ,Alkalinity ,Pelagic zone ,General Chemistry ,Oceanography ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Calcium carbonate ,chemistry ,Environmental chemistry ,Dissolved organic carbon ,Environmental Chemistry ,Environmental science ,Carbonate ,Seawater ,Saturation (chemistry) ,Water Science and Technology - Abstract
Total alkalinity (TA) is one of the four main carbonate system variables and is a conventionally measured parameter used to characterise marine water carbonate chemistry. It is an important indicator of a waterbody's buffering capacity and a measure of its ability to resist acidification, a matter of growing concern in the marine environment. Although TA is primarily associated with the inorganic components of seawater such as bicarbonate, there is a growing consensus that dissolved organic matter (DOM) can significantly contribute to TA in coastal waters. This organic fraction of TA (OrgAlk) is typically deemed negligible and is not accounted for in conventional TA expressions. However, omission of OrgAlk can lead to the propagation of errors in subsequent carbonate system calculations and to misinterpretation of key carbonate chemistry descriptors such as calcium carbonate saturation states. Here we provide an overview of OrgAlk contributions to TA and investigate the implications of its omission in carbonate system studies conducted in coastal waters. We examine the prevalence of OrgAlk across both coastal and pelagic waters using publicly available carbonate system data products, such as GLODAP and GOMECC. Current measures to account for, incorporate and characterise the contribution of OrgAlk to TA are also critically examined.
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30. The electron-capture origin of supernova 2018zd
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David J. Sand, Chengyuan Xu, Ken'ichi Nomoto, Iair Arcavi, Koichi Itagaki, Y. Dong, Gagandeep S. Anand, Takashi J. Moriya, T. Noguchi, Jamison Burke, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jennifer E. Andrews, D. Andrew Howell, Gastón Folatelli, Keiichi Maeda, Curtis McCully, Daichi Hiramatsu, Melina C. Bersten, G. Grant Williams, Stefano Valenti, Nozomu Tominaga, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Peter J. Brown, Patrick L. Kelly, Jared A. Goldberg, Nathan Smith, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Paul S. Smith, Christopher Bilinski, and K. Azalee Bostroem
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Ciencias Astronómicas ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Supernova ,Black hole ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Neutron star ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Light curve ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Stellar evolution ,Nucleosynthesis ,0103 physical sciences ,Emission spectrum ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Solar mass ,White dwarf ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Stars ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
In the transitional mass range (~8–10 solar masses) between white dwarf formation and iron core-collapse supernovae, stars are expected to produce an electron-capture supernova. Theoretically, these progenitors are thought to be super-asymptotic giant branch stars with a degenerate O + Ne + Mg core, and electron capture onto Ne and Mg nuclei should initiate core collapse1–4. However, no supernovae have unequivocally been identified from an electron-capture origin, partly because of uncertainty in theoretical predictions. Here we present six indicators of electron-capture supernovae and show that supernova 2018zd is the only known supernova with strong evidence for or consistent with all six: progenitor identification, circumstellar material, chemical composition5–7, explosion energy, light curve and nucleosynthesis8–12. For supernova 2018zd, we infer a super-asymptotic giant branch progenitor based on the faint candidate in the pre-explosion images and the chemically enriched circumstellar material revealed by the early ultraviolet colours and flash spectroscopy. The light-curve morphology and nebular emission lines can be explained by the low explosion energy and neutron-rich nucleosynthesis produced in an electron-capture supernova. This identification provides insights into the complex stellar evolution, supernova physics, cosmic nucleosynthesis and remnant populations in the transitional mass range. Electron-capture supernovae are thought to come from progenitors with a narrow range of masses, and thus they are rare. Here the authors present six indicators of an electron-capture supernova origin, and find that supernova 2018zd fulfils all six criteria., Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas
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31. Teaching Health as a Human Right in the Undergraduate Context: Challenges and Opportunities
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Bisan A. Salhi and Peter J. Brown
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This paper explores the possibility of a pedagogy about health and human rights that is understandable and persuasive to undergraduate students yet does not succumb to a reductive dualism of optimism and pessimism. In 2014, we presented the topic of health and human rights in an introductory undergraduate global health course in conjunction with the exhibit “Health is a Human Right: Race and Place in America” at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. The exhibition highlighted the United States’ complicated legacy and failures of health and human rights, with an emphasis on ongoing racial and socioeconomic inequities. In conjunction with class lectures, students viewed the exhibit and submitted a survey and a reflective essay about human rights abuses, as well as possibilities for realizing the right to health in the United States. Contrary to our expectations, the human rights issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic raised very little interest among our students, for whom AIDS is a preventable and treatable chronic disease. Instead, students were most interested in exhibits on eugenics and forced sterilization, deficits in water and sanitation, racism, and contradictions of American exceptionalism. We conclude that an emphasis on the violations of human rights and their health effects using domestic examples from relatively recent history can be an effective pedagogical strategy. This approach represents an opportunity to counter students’ presumptions that the United States exists outside of the human rights discourse. Moreover, this approach may reinforce the idea that the domestic race- and class-based inequalities can and should be understood as human rights violations.
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32. A vision for FAIR ocean data products
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Anton Velo, Akihiko Murata, Henry C. Bittig, Stephen C Diggs, Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, Reiner Steinfeldt, Toste Tanhua, Richard A. Feely, Kevin D. O'Brien, Are Olsen, Emil Jeansson, Marta Álvarez, Maciej Telszewski, Masao Ishii, Eugene Burger, Alex Kozyr, Robert M. Key, Rik Wanninkhof, Mario Hoppema, Peter J. Brown, Siv K. Lauvset, Carsten Schirnick, Bronte Tilbrook, Benjamin Pfeil, Nico Lange, Fiz F. Pérez, Brendan R. Carter, Tanhua, T. [0000-0002-0313-2557], Álvarez, Marta [0000-0002-5075-9344], Bittig, Henry C. [0000-0002-8621-3095], Brown, P. [0000-0002-1152-1114], Cotrim da Cunha, Leticia [0000-0001-8035-1430], Hoppema, M. [0000-0002-2326-619X], Ishii, Masao [0000-0002-7328-4599], Jeansson, Emil [0000-0002-2501-3479], Pérez, Fiz F. [0000-0003-4836-8974], Schirnick, C. [0000-0003-4111-9174], Steinfeldt, R. [0000-0002-3704-3990], Tilbrook, Bronte [0000-0001-9385-3827], Velo, A. [0000-0002-7598-5700], Tanhua, T., Álvarez, Marta, Bittig, Henry C., Brown, P., Cotrim da Cunha, Leticia, Hoppema, M., Ishii, Masao, Jeansson, Emil, Pérez, Fiz F., Schirnick, C., Steinfeldt, R., Tilbrook, Bronte, and Velo, A.
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Resource (biology) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Data products ,Global warming ,Carbon sink ,010502 geochemistry & geophysics ,Data submission ,01 natural sciences ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Sea surface temperature ,chemistry ,13. Climate action ,Environmental protection ,Carbon dioxide ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Environmental science ,14. Life underwater ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
4 pages, 1 figure.-- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, The ocean is mitigating global warming by absorbing large amounts of excess carbon dioxide from human activities. To quantify and monitor the ocean carbon sink, we need a state-of-the-art data resource that makes data submission and retrieval machine-compatible and efficient, This effort has been supported by EU Horizon 2020 through the EuroSea action (grant no. 862626), the Helmholtz Association through “Digital Earth” (grant no. ZT-0025), L.C.C. acknowledges the UERJ/Prociencia grant (2018-2021), M.H. acknowledge EU Horizon 2020 action SO-CHIC (grant N°821001). B.C., R.A.F., E.B., K.O’.B., and R.W. were supported by NOAA/OAR and NOAA/GOMO (fund ref. 100007298), B.T. was partly supported by Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), S.K.L. acknowledges internal strategic funding from NORCE Climate, M.T. acknowledges support from the US NSF grant OCE-1840868 to SCOR. The PMEL and CICOES contributions are 5253 and 2020-1141, respectively
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33. Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for MASSIVE and Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies
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R. Brent Tully, John Blakeslee, Michele Cantiello, John R. Lucey, Charlotte M. Wood, Joseph B. Jensen, Anh Phan, Peter M. Garnavich, Chung-Pei Ma, Peter J. Brown, Peter A. Milne, and Jenny E. Greene
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Physics ,Supermassive black hole ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Infrared ,Surface brightness fluctuation ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Galaxy ,Supernova ,symbols.namesake ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,symbols ,Elliptical galaxy ,Lenticular galaxy ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Hubble's law ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We measured high-quality surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances for a sample of 63 massive early-type galaxies using the WFC3/IR camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. The median uncertainty on the SBF distance measurements is 0.085 mag, or 3.9% in distance. Achieving this precision at distances of 50 to 100 Mpc required significant improvements to the SBF calibration and data analysis procedures for WFC3/IR data. Forty-two of the galaxies are from the MASSIVE Galaxy Survey, a complete sample of massive galaxies within ~100 Mpc; the SBF distances for these will be used to improve the estimates of the stellar and central supermassive black hole masses in these galaxies. Twenty-four of the galaxies are Type Ia supernova hosts, useful for calibrating SN Ia distances for early-type galaxies and exploring possible systematic trends in the peak luminosities. Our results demonstrate that the SBF method is a powerful and versatile technique for measuring distances to galaxies with evolved stellar populations out to 100 Mpc and constraining the local value of the Hubble constant., Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series; 22 pages, 7 figures, with 61 additional figures to be published as an online figure set
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34. Swift multiwavelength follow-up of LVC S200224ca and the implications for binary black hole mergers
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S. R. Oates, Antonino D'Ai, K. L. Page, P. T. O'Brien, Caryl Gronwall, Sergio Campana, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Scott Barthelmy, J. A. Kennea, N. P. M. Kuin, Michael H. Siegel, Phil Evans, David Palmer, B. Sbarufatti, M. J. Page, Paolo Giommi, Valerio D'Elia, Javier A. García, S. W. K. Emery, Peter J. Brown, Bing Zhang, M. de Pasquale, Noel Klingler, Frank Marshall, Dieter H. Hartmann, M. Perri, Giancarlo Cusumano, A. Y. Lien, Eleonora Troja, A. P. Beardmore, Joshua E. Schlieder, David N. Burrows, A. Tohuvavohu, A. A. Breeveld, Maria Grazia Bernardini, J. P. Osborne, Hans A. Krimm, A. Melandri, J. A. Nousek, Judith Racusin, D. B. Malesani, P. D'Avanzo, T. Sakamoto, and S. B. Cenko
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Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,X-ray astronomy ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Gravitational wave ,High-energy astronomy ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Gamma-ray astronomy ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Binary black hole ,Space and Planetary Science ,Observatory ,0103 physical sciences ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Gamma-ray burst ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Dimensionless quantity - Abstract
On 2020 February 24, during their third observing run ("O3"), the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected S200224ca: a candidate gravitational wave (GW) event produced by a binary black hole (BBH) merger. This event was one of the best-localized compact binary coalescences detected in O3 (with 50%/90% error regions of 13/72 deg$^2$), and so the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory performed rapid near-UV/X-ray follow-up observations. Swift-XRT and UVOT covered approximately 79.2% and 62.4% (respectively) of the GW error region, making S200224ca the BBH event most thoroughly followed-up in near-UV (u-band) and X-ray to date. No likely EM counterparts to the GW event were found by the Swift BAT, XRT, or UVOT, nor by other observatories. Here we report on the results of our searches for an EM counterpart, both in the BAT data near the time of the merger, and in follow-up UVOT/XRT observations. We also discuss the upper limits we can place on EM radiation from S200224ca, and the implications these limits have on the physics of BBH mergers. Namely, we place a shallow upper limit on the dimensionless BH charge, $\hat{q} < 1.4 \times10^{-4}$, and an upper limit on the isotropic-equivalent energy of a blast wave $E < 4.1\times10^{51}$ erg (assuming typical GRB parameters)., 14 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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35. Supernova 2018cuf: A type iip supernova with a slow fall from plateau
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Lluís Galbany, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Lindsey Kwok, Y. Dong, Stefano Valenti, Iair Arcavi, K. A. Bostroem, Xiaofeng Wang, D. Andrew Howell, Y. Eweis, Kuntal Misra, Saurabh Jha, Michael J. Lundquist, Keiichi Maeda, S. Wyatt, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Joseph P. Anderson, Renata Cecília Amaro, Curtis McCully, Sebastián F. Sánchez, David J. Sand, Peter J. Brown, Raya Dastidar, Nathan Smith, Vladimir Kouprianov, J. B. Haislip, Daniel E. Reichart, Jennifer E. Andrews, Jamison Burke, Daichi Hiramatsu, Eric Hsiao, Lingzhi Wang, Jacob E. Jencson, Gastón Folatelli, Jeonghee Rho, J. D. Lyman, and Scott C. Davis
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spectroscopy ,photometry ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Supernova ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Type (model theory) ,Plateau (mathematics) ,01 natural sciences ,Spectral line ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,0103 physical sciences ,Core-collapse supernovae ,Core-collapse supernovae (304) ,Red supergiant ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Type II supernovae ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,Photosphere ,Degree (graph theory) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 [https] ,Light curve ,Astronomía ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,Type II supernovae (1731) ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present multiband photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2018cuf, a Type IIP (“P” for plateau) supernova (SN) discovered by the Distance Less Than 40 Mpc Survey within 24 hr of explosion. SN 2018cuf appears to be a typical SN IIP, with an absolute V-band magnitude of −16.73 ± 0.32 at maximum and a decline rate of 0.21 ± 0.05 mag/50 days during the plateau phase. The distance of the object was constrained to be 41.8 ± 5.7 Mpc by using the expanding photosphere method. We used spectroscopic and photometric observations from the first year after the explosion to constrain the progenitor of SN 2018cuf using both hydrodynamic light-curve modeling and late-time spectroscopic modeling. The progenitor of SN 2018cuf was most likely a red supergiant of about 14.5 M⊙ that produced 0.04 ± 0.01 M⊙ ⁵⁶Ni during the explosion. We also found ∼0.07 M⊙ of circumstellar material (CSM) around the progenitor is needed to fit the early light curves, where the CSM may originate from presupernova outbursts. During the plateau phase, high-velocity features at ∼11,000 km s⁻¹ were detected in both the optical and near-infrared spectra, supporting the possibility that the ejecta were interacting with some CSM. A very shallow slope during the postplateau phase was also observed, and it is likely due to a low degree of nickel mixing or the relatively high nickel mass in the SN., Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata
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36. Swift/UVOT follow-up of Gravitational Wave Alerts in the O3 era
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J. P. Osborne, A. Tohuvavohu, A. P. Beardmore, Joshua E. Schlieder, Caryl Gronwall, J. A. Kennea, Scott Barthelmy, E. Ambrosi, Regina Caputo, David Palmer, E. Troja, F. E. Marshall, A. J. Fenney, B. Sbarufatti, M. G. Bernardini, M. de Pasquale, Phil Evans, Sergio Campana, A. Melandri, Valerio D'Elia, S. R. Oates, Peter J. Brown, T. Sakamoto, Paolo Giommi, Hans A. Krimm, Dieter H. Hartmann, M. J. Page, S. Laha, Giancarlo Cusumano, C. Pagani, Antonino D'Ai, N. J. Klingler, G. Tagliaferri, M. Perri, D. Malesani, A. A. Breeveld, J. A. Nousek, S. B. Cenko, P. T. O'Brien, J. L. Racusin, N. P. M. Kuin, K. L. Page, M. H. Siegel, and P. D'Avanzo
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Swift ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Gravitational-wave observatory ,Active galactic nucleus ,Gravitational wave ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astronomy ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Quasar ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Light curve ,Photometry (astronomy) ,gravitational waves ,ultraviolet: general ,Space and Planetary Science ,Gamma-ray burst ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,computer ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,computer.programming_language - Abstract
In this paper, we report on the observational performance of the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) in response to the Gravitational Wave alerts announced by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and the Advanced Virgo detector during the O3 period. We provide the observational strategy for follow-up of GW alerts and provide an overview of the processing and analysis of candidate optical/UV sources. For the O3 period, we also provide a statistical overview and report on serendipitous sources discovered by Swift/UVOT. Swift followed 18 gravitational-wave candidate alerts, with UVOT observing a total of 424 deg^2. We found 27 sources that changed in magnitude at the 3 sigma level compared with archival u or g-band catalogued values. Swift/UVOT also followed up a further 13 sources reported by other facilities during the O3 period. Using catalogue information, we divided these 40 sources into five initial classifications: 11 candidate active galactic nuclei (AGN)/quasars, 3 Cataclysmic Variables (CVs), 9 supernovae, 11 unidentified sources that had archival photometry and 6 uncatalogued sources for which no archival photometry was available. We have no strong evidence to identify any of these transients as counterparts to the GW events. The 17 unclassified sources are likely a mix of AGN and a class of fast-evolving transient, and one source may be a CV., 25 pages, 6 figures and 5 tables. Submitted to MNRAS. Supplementary contains 23 pages with 8 figures and 1 table
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37. An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020
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Nico Lange, Mario Hoppema, Anton Velo, Siv K. Lauvset, Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, Reiner Steinfeldt, Brendan R. Carter, Alex Kozyr, Susan Becker, Akihiko Murata, Patrick Michaelis, Are Olsen, Fiz F. Pérez, Bronte Tilbrook, Steven van Heuven, Benjamin Pfeil, Robert M. Key, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Masao Ishii, Richard A. Feely, Marta Álvarez, Camilla S. Landa, Carsten Schirnick, Toru Suzuki, Toste Tanhua, Ryan J. Woosley, Henry C. Bittig, Sara Jutterström, Peter J. Brown, Rik Wanninkhof, Emil Jeansson, European Commission, and Isotope Research
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0106 biological sciences ,Biogeochemical cycle ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Alkalinity ,Context (language use) ,SOLUBILITY ,Atmospheric sciences ,01 natural sciences ,OXYGEN ,CARBON ,Total inorganic carbon ,Dissolved organic carbon ,WATER ,14. Life underwater ,lcsh:Environmental sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,lcsh:GE1-350 ,SEA ,SEAWATER ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,lcsh:QE1-996.5 ,Salinity ,lcsh:Geology ,POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE ,13. Climate action ,Global Ocean Data Analysis Project ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,CO2 ,Seawater ,DEEP CONVECTION ,ALKALINITY - Abstract
26 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables.-- This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a synthesis effort providing regular compilations of surface-to-bottom ocean biogeochemical data, with an emphasis on seawater inorganic carbon chemistry and related variables determined through chemical analysis of seawater samples. GLODAPv2.2020 is an update of the previous version, GLODAPv2.2019. The major changes are data from 106 new cruises added, extension of time coverage to 2019, and the inclusion of available (also for historical cruises) discrete fugacity of CO2 (fCO2) values in the merged product files. GLODAPv2.2020 now includes measurements from more than 1.2 million water samples from the global oceans collected on 946 cruises. The data for the 12 GLODAP core variables (salinity, oxygen, nitrate, silicate, phosphate, dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, pH, CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, and CCl4) have undergone extensive quality control with a focus on systematic evaluation of bias. The data are available in two formats: (i) as submitted by the data originator but updated to WOCE exchange format and (ii) as a merged data product with adjustments applied to minimize bias. These adjustments were derived by comparing the data from the 106 new cruises with the data from the 840 quality-controlled cruises of the GLODAPv2.2019 data product using crossover analysis. Comparisons to empirical algorithm estimates provided additional context for adjustment decisions; this is new to this version. The adjustments are intended to remove potential biases from errors related to measurement, calibration, and data-handling practices without removing known or likely time trends or variations in the variables evaluated. The compiled and adjusted data product is believed to be consistent to better than 0.005 in salinity, 1% in oxygen, 2% in nitrate, 2% in silicate, 2% in phosphate, 4 μmolkg-1 in dissolved inorganic carbon, 4 μmolkg-1 in total alkalinity, 0.01–0.02 in pH (depending on region), and 5% in the halogenated transient tracers. The other variables included in the compilation, such as isotopic tracers and discrete fCO2, were not subjected to bias comparison or adjustments. The original data and their documentation and DOI codes are available at the Ocean Carbon Data System of NOAA NCEI (https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ocads/oceans/GLODAPv2_2020/, last access: 20 June 2020). This site also provides access to the merged data product, which is provided as a single global file and as four regional ones – the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans – under https://doi.org/10.25921/2c8h-sa89 (Olsen et al., 2020). These bias-adjusted product files also include significant ancillary and approximated data. These were obtained by interpolation of, or calculation from, measured data. This living data update documents the GLODAPv2.2020 methods and provides a broad overview of the secondary quality control procedures and results, Nico Lange was funded by EU Horizon 2020 through the EuroSea action (grant no. 862626). Leticia Cotrim da Cunha was supported by Prociencia/UERJ (grant no. 2019-2021). Marta Álvarez was supported by the IEO RADIALES and RADPROF projects. Peter J. Brown was partially funded by the UK Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science (CLASS) NERC National Capability Long-term Single Centre Science Programme (grant no. NE/R015953/1). Anton Velo and Fiz F. Pérez were supported by the BOCATS2 Project (grant no. PID2019-104279GBC21) co-funded by the Spanish Government and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). RikWanninkhof and Brendan R. Carter were supported by the NOAA Global Observations and Monitoring Division (fund reference 100007298) and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research of NOAA. Henry C. Bittig has been supported by the BONUS INTEGRAL project (grant no. 03F0773A). This research was also funded by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association through the project “Digital Earth” (grant no. ZT-0025)
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38. The early discovery of SN 2017ahn: signatures of persistent interaction in a fast declining Type II supernova
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David J. Sand, Curtis McCully, Jay Strader, F. Forster, Saurabh Jha, Jose H. Groh, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Sheng Yang, Peter J. Brown, Scott C. Davis, Dale Andrew Howell, Lluís Galbany, Eric Hsiao, Jamison Burke, Stefano Valenti, J. D. Lyman, Daichi Hiramatsu, Daniel E. Reichart, Mark M. Phillips, Melissa Shahbandeh, Arne Rau, Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, S. Wyatt, Leonardo Tartaglia, T.-W. Chen, K. A. Bostroem, Josh Haislip, and Vladimir Kouprianov
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Star (game theory) ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,Spectral line ,symbols.namesake ,0103 physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Ejecta ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,Balmer series ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Observable ,Light curve ,Type II supernova ,Supernova ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,symbols ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present high-cadence, comprehensive data on the nearby ($D\simeq33\,\rm{Mpc}$) Type II SN 2017ahn, discovered within $\sim$1 day of explosion, from the very early phases after explosion to the nebular phase. The observables of SN 2017ahn show a significant evolution over the $\simeq470\,\rm{d}$ of our follow-up campaign, first showing prominent, narrow Balmer lines and other high-ionization features purely in emission (i.e. flash spectroscopy features), which progressively fade and lead to a spectroscopic evolution similar to that of more canonical Type II supernovae. Over the same period, the decline of the light curves in all bands is fast, resembling the photometric evolution of linearly declining H-rich core-collapse supernovae. The modeling of the light curves and early flash spectra suggest a complex circumstellar medium surrounding the progenitor star at the time of explosion, with a first dense shell produced during the very late stages of its evolution being swept up by the rapidly expanding ejecta within the first $\sim6\,\rm{d}$ of the supernova evolution, while signatures of interaction are observed also at later phases. Hydrodynamical models support the scenario in which linearly declining Type II supernovae are predicted to arise from massive yellow super/hyper giants depleted of most of their hydrogen layers., 26 pages (21+Appendices), 19 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication on ApJ
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39. GLODAPv2.2020 – the second update of GLODAPv2
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Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Fiz F. Pérez, Nico Lange, Alex Kozyr, Patrick Michaelis, Siv K. Lauvset, Peter J. Brown, Marta Álvarez, Masao Ishii, Sara Jutterström, L. Cotrim da Cunha, Akihiko Murata, Reiner Steinfeldt, Carsten Schirnick, Bronte Tilbrook, Robert M. Key, Mario Hoppema, Toru Suzuki, Camilla S. Landa, Brendan R. Carter, Richard A. Feely, Benjamin Pfeil, Anton Velo, Are Olsen, S. van Heuven, Susan Becker, Emil Jeansson, Rik Wanninkhof, Ryan J. Woosley, Henry C. Bittig, and Toste Tanhua
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010506 paleontology ,Biogeochemical cycle ,Group method of data handling ,Alkalinity ,010501 environmental sciences ,Atmospheric sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Salinity ,Total inorganic carbon ,13. Climate action ,Dissolved organic carbon ,Global Ocean Data Analysis Project ,Seawater ,14. Life underwater ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a synthesis effort providing regular compilations of surface to bottom ocean biogeochemical data, with an emphasis on seawater inorganic carbon chemistry and related variables determined through chemical analysis of water samples. GLODAPv2.2020 is an update of the previous version, GLODAPv2.2019. The major changes are: data from 106 more cruises added, extension of time coverage until 2019, and the inclusion of available discrete fugacity of CO2 (fCO2) values in the merged product files. GLODAPv2.2020 includes measurements from more than 1.2 million water samples from the global oceans collected on 946 cruises. The data for the 12 GLODAP core variables (salinity, oxygen, nitrate, silicate, phosphate, dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity, pH, CFC-11, CFC-12, CFC-113, and CCl4) have undergone extensive quality control, especially systematic evaluation of bias. The data are available in two formats: (i) as submitted by the data originator but updated to WOCE exchange format and (ii) as a merged data product with adjustments applied to minimize bias. These adjustments were derived by comparing the data from the 106 new cruises with the data from the 840 quality-controlled cruises of the GLODAPv2.2019 data product. They correct for errors related to measurement, calibration, and data handling practices, while taking into account any known or likely time trends or variations in the variables evaluated. The compiled and adjusted data product is believed to be consistent to better than 0.005 in salinity, 1 % in oxygen, 2 % in nitrate, 2 % in silicate, 2 % in phosphate, 4 μmol kg−1 in dissolved inorganic carbon, 4 μmol kg−1 in total alkalinity, 0.01–0.02, depending on region, in pH, and 5 % in the halogenated transient tracers. The other variables included in the compilation, such as isotopic tracers and discrete fCO2 were not subjected to bias comparison or adjustments. The original data, their documentation and doi codes are available at the Ocean Carbon Data System of NOAA NCEI (https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ocads/oceans/GLODAPv2_2020/, last access: 22 June 2020). This site also provides access to the merged data product, which is provided as a single global file and as four regional ones – the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans – under https://doi.org/10.25921/2c8h-sa89 (Olsen et al., 2020). The bias corrected product files also include significant ancillary and approximated data. These were obtained by interpolation of, or calculation from, measured data. This living data update documents the GLODAPv2.2020 methods and provides a broad overview of the secondary quality control procedures and results.
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40. SN 2013aa and SN 2017cbv:Two Sibling Type Ia Supernovae in the Spiral Galaxy NGC 5643
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Kevin Krisciunas, C. Gonzalez, Christopher R. Burns, Chris Ashall, Peter Hoeflich, Eric Hsiao, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Joshua D. Simon, J. Vílchez, Maximilian Stritzinger, Jaime Vargas-González, S. Holmbo, Anthony L. Piro, David J. Sand, Syed Uddin, Mark M. Phillips, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Nahir Muñoz-Elgueta, Lluís Galbany, N. Ulloa, Ricardo Flores, Abdo Campillay, Peter J. Brown, Carlos Contreras, César Rojas-Bravo, Ryan J. Foley, Robert P. Kirshner, Nidia Morrell, and Wendy L. Freedman
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Cepheid variable ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Galaxy distances ,Photometric system ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Distance indicators ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,Peculiar velocity ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Type Ia supernovae ,Spiral galaxy ,Cosmic distance ladder ,Interstellar dust extinction ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Light curve ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Galaxy ,Supernova ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2013aa and SN 2017cbv, two nearly identical type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the host galaxy NGC 5643. The optical photometry has been obtained using the same telescope and instruments used by the Carnegie Supernova Project. This eliminates most instrumental systematics and provides light curves in a stable and well-understood photometric system. Having the same host galaxy also eliminates systematics due to distance and peculiar velocity, providing an opportunity to directly test the relative precision of SNe Ia as standard candles. The two SNe have nearly identical decline rates, negligible reddening, and remarkably similar spectra and, at a distance of $\sim 20$ Mpc, are ideal as potential calibrators for the absolute distance using primary indicators such as Cepheid variables. We discuss to what extent these two SNe can be considered twins and compare them with other supernova "siblings" in the literature and their likely progenitor scenarios. Using 12 galaxies that hosted 2 or more SNe~Ia, we find that when using SNe~Ia, and after accounting for all sources of observational error, one gets consistency in distance to 3 percent., Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
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41. Waiting for the End of the World? : New Perspectives on Natural Disasters in Medieval Europe
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Christopher M. Gerrard, Paolo Forlin, Peter J. Brown, Christopher M. Gerrard, Paolo Forlin, and Peter J. Brown
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- Archaeology, Medieval--Europe, Environmental disasters--Europe--History--To 1500, Natural disasters--Europe--History--To 1500, Archaeology, Medieval
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Waiting for the End of the World? addresses the archaeological, architectural, historical and geological evidence for natural disasters in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries. This volume adopts a fresh interdisciplinary approach to explore the many ways in which environmental hazards affected European populations and, in turn, how medieval communities coped and responded to short- and long-term consequences. Three sections, which focus on geotectonic hazards (Part I), severe storms and hydrological hazards (Part II) and biophysical hazards (Part III), draw together 18 papers of the latest research while additional detail is provided in a catalogue of the 20 most significant disasters to have affected Europe during the period. These include earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, storms, floods and outbreaks of infectious diseases. Spanning Europe, from the British Isles to Italy and from the Canary Islands to Cyprus, these contributions will be of interest to earth scientists, geographers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and climatologists, but are also relevant to students and non-specialist readers interested in medieval archaeology and history, as well as those studying human geography and disaster studies. Despite a different set of beliefs relating to the natural world and protection against environmental hazards, the evidence suggests that medieval communities frequently adopted a surprisingly ‘modern', well-informed and practically minded outlook.
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42. Sustainable Observations of the AMOC: Methodology and Technology
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Mark Inall, Achim Roessler, Rebecca Hummels, C. N. Flagg, Peter J. Brown, David A. Smeed, Darren Rayner, Christopher S. Meinen, Pascale Lherminier, Ben Moat, Claudia Schmid, Loïc Houpert, Chris W. Hughes, Gerard McCarthy, Kerstin Jochumsen, Karin Margretha H. Larsen, Gustavo Goni, and Monika Rhein
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Geophysics ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,010505 oceanography ,13. Climate action ,Remote sensing (archaeology) ,Ocean Circulation ,Ocean current ,Environmental science ,AMOC ,Ocean Observing ,01 natural sciences ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Remote sensing - Abstract
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key mechanism of heat, freshwater, and carbon redistribution in the climate system. The precept that the AMOC has changed abruptly in the past, notably during and at the end of the last ice age, and that it is ‘very likely’ to weaken in the coming century due to anthropogenic climate change is a key motivation for sustained observations of the AMOC. This paper reviews the methodology and technology used to observe the AMOC and assesses these ideas and systems for accuracy, shortcomings, potential improvements and sustainability. We review hydrographic techniques and look at how these traditional techniques can meet modern requirements. Transport mooring arrays provide the ‘gold standard’ for sustained AMOC observing, utilizing dynamic height, current meter, and other instrumentation and techniques to produce continuous observations of the AMOC. We consider the principle of these systems and how they can be sustained and improved into the future. Techniques utilizing indirect measurements, such as satellite altimetry, coupled with in‐situ measurements, such as the Argo float array, are also discussed. Existing technologies that perhaps have not been fully exploited for estimating AMOC are reviewed and considered for this purpose. Technology is constantly evolving and we look to the future of technology and how it can be deployed for sustained and expanded AMOC measurements. Finally, all of these methodologies and technologies are considered with a view to a sustained and sustainable future for AMOC observation. Plain Language Summary The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a system of ocean currents (sometimes known as the Gulf Stream System or the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt) that is important because of how it moves heat and carbon around the planet. Due to human‐induced climate change, the AMOC is predicted to weaken substantially, with adverse impacts for regions dependent on the supply of warmth from the AMOC, including northwest Europe. Surprisingly, given its importance, the AMOC has only been directly measured for the last decade or so. We now have observation systems in place that can verify a future decline in the AMOC, if it happens. In this paper we review these observation systems in terms of the technology and methodology used. We look at how these systems might develop in the future, including covering any gaps that might exist. And consider how they might fit in an integrated and optimized Atlantic observing system.
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43. Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey
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Michael Schubnell, Josh Frieman, K. Honscheid, David Brooks, David J. James, Jochen Weller, Santiago González-Gaitán, A. Roodman, Pablo Fosalba, B. E. Tucker, M. E. C. Swanson, Ryan J. Foley, T. M. C. Abbott, J. Carretero, Tamara M. Davis, Karl Glazebrook, Daniel Thomas, E. J. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, Sunayana Bhargava, A. A. Plazas, M. Costanzi, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Felipe Menanteau, Marcos Lima, Shantanu Desai, Mario Hamuy, Daniela Carollo, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Gregory Tarle, Edward Macaulay, Juan Estrada, Anais Möller, A. R. Walker, M. A. G. Maia, Mathew Smith, Tenglin Li, D. L. Burke, F. Forster, Daniel Scolnic, W. G. Hartley, B. Flaugher, Enrique Gaztanaga, Santiago Avila, Peter J. Brown, Samuel Hinton, Antonella Palmese, G. Gutierrez, T. de Jaeger, Michel Aguena, Daniel Gruen, J. De Vicente, Geraint F. Lewis, Ramon Miquel, P. Doel, H. T. Diehl, Alexei V. Filippenko, N. E. Sommer, Alex Drlica-Wagner, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Annis, J. Gschwend, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, F. Paz-Chinchón, D. J. Brout, T. F. Eifler, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, S. Everett, Douglas L. Tucker, Kyler Kuehn, B. Nichol, N. Kuropatkin, E. Suchyta, T. N. Varga, L. N. da Costa, M. Sako, Cosimo Inserra, D. L. Hollowood, S. Serrano, Richard Kessler, Juan Garcia-Bellido, E. Bertin, Lluís Galbany, Martin Crocce, R. D. Wilkinson, A. K. Romer, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DES, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), de Jaeger, T., Galbany, L., González-Gaitán, S., Kessler, R., Filippenko, A. V., Förster, F., Hamuy, M., Brown, P. J., Davis, T. M., Gutiérrez, C. P., Inserra, C., Lewis, G. F., Möller, A., Scolnic, D., Smith, M., Brout, D., Carollo, D., Foley, R. J., Glazebrook, K., Hinton, S. R., Macaulay, E., Nichol, B., Sako, M., Sommer, N. E., Tucker, B. E., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., Crocce, M., da Costa, L. N., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Estrada, J., Everett, S., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., T. S., Li, Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Plazas, A. A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Tucker, D. L., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R., Weller, J., Wilkinson, R., and Des, Collaboration
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,) distance scale [(Cosmology] ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Computer Science::Computational Geometry ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,symbols.namesake ,0103 physical sciences ,Range (statistics) ,distances and redshifts [Galaxies] ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,distances and redshift [galaxies] ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,4. Education ,Cosmic distance ladder ,(stars:) supernovae: general ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Redshift ,Term (time) ,(cosmology:) distance scale ,Supernova ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,) supernovae: general [(Stars] ,AGLOMERADOS DE GALÁXIAS ,Dark energy ,symbols ,galaxies: distances and redshifts ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Hubble's law ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
Despite vast improvements in the measurement of the cosmological parameters, the nature of dark energy and an accurate value of the Hubble constant (H0) in the Hubble–Lemaˆıtre law remain unknown. To break the current impasse, it is necessary to develop as many independent techniques as possible, such as the use of Type II supernovae (SNe II). The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the utility of SNe II for deriving accurate extragalactic distances, which will be an asset for the next generation of telescopes where more-distant SNe II will be discovered. More specifically, we present a sample from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN) consisting of 15 SNe II with photometric and spectroscopic information spanning a redshift range up to 0.35. Combining our DES SNe with publicly available samples, and using the standard candle method (SCM), we construct the largest available Hubble diagram with SNe II in the Hubble flow (70 SNe II) and find an observed dispersion of 0.27 mag. We demonstrate that adding a colour term to the SN II standardization does not reduce the scatter in the Hubble diagram. Although SNe II are viable as distance indicators, this work points out important issues for improving their utility as independent extragalactic beacons: find new correlations, define a more standard subclass of SNe II, construct new SN II templates, and dedicate more observing time to high-redshift SNe II. Finally, for the first time, we perform simulations to estimate the redshift-dependent distance-modulus bias due to selection effects., National Science Foundation (NSF) AST-1211916, TABASGO Foundation, Gary and Cynthia Bengier, Christopher R. Redlich Fund, Sylvia and Jim Katzman Foundation, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (UC Berkeley) - European Union 839090, Spanish grant PGC2018-095317-B-C21, European Union (EU), EU/FP7-ERC grant 615929, National Science Foundation (NSF), Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) collaboration includes the astronomical communities of Japan, Princeton University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), University of Tokyo, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), FIRST programme from the Japanese Cabinet Office, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science & Technology Agency (JST), Toray Industries, Inc., Institute for Astronomy (the University of Hawaii), Max Planck Society Foundation CELLEX, National Central University of Taiwan, Space Telescope Science Institute, National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) NNX08AR22G, National Science Foundation (NSF) AST-1238877, University of Maryland, Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE), National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), W.M. Keck Foundation, National Research Council of Canada, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), National Research Council, Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT), Australian Research Council, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) GN-2005A-Q11 GN-2005B-Q-7 GN-2006A-Q-7 GS-2005A-Q-11 GS-2005BQ-6 GS-2008B-Q-56, United States Department of Energy (DOE), Spanish Government, Higher Education Funding Council for England, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University, Ciencia Tecnologia e Inovacao (FINEP), Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient'tronomy at Texas AM University, German Research Foundation (DFG), University of Portsmouth, OzDES Membership Consortium, National Science Foundation (NSF) AST-1138766 AST-1536171 AYA2015-71825 ESP2015-66861 FPA2015-68048 SEV2016-0588 SEV-2016-0597, European Union - CERCA programme of the Generalitat de Catalunya, European Research Council (ERC), European Research Council (ERC) 240672 291329 306478, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) 465376/2014-2, United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC02-05CH11231
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44. Catalogue of medieval disasters
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Paolo Forlin, Peter J. Brown, Christopher Gerrard, C. Gerrard, P. Forlin, P. Brown, Brown, Peter, Forlin, Paolo, and Gerrard, Christopher
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History ,natural disaster ,medieval Europe ,archaeology ,resilience - Abstract
Catalogue of major disasters occurred in medieval Europe. It describes twenty natural disasters including, among the others, the volcanic eruptions of AD 536 and 540 363, the 1117 earthquake in northern Italy, the 1222 Cyprus earthquake, the 1248 Mont Granier landslide, the 1348 Carinthia and Friuli earthquake, the 1356 Basel earthquake, the 1382 Straits of Dover earthquake, Excavating the 1522 earthquake and landslide on the island of São Miguel, Azores, The 1531 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami. These entries were written by Paolo Forlin.
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45. The Carnegie Supernova Project II:The shock wave revealed through the fog: The strongly interacting Type IIn SN 2013L
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Jesper Sollerman, L. Busta, Francesco Taddia, C. Gonzalez, Anders Nyholm, J. Serón, J. D. Simon, S. Castellon, Eric Hsiao, F. Di Mille, Christopher R. Burns, Mark M. Phillips, Peter J. Brown, Abdo Campillay, Nidia Morrell, Claes Fransson, Takashi J. Moriya, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Chris Ashall, S. Holmbo, Christa Gall, M. D. Stritzinger, C. Corco, and Carlos Contreras
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Shock wave ,astro-ph.SR ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,MODELS ,general [Supernovae] ,individual: SN 2013L [Supernovae] ,FOS: Physical sciences ,LINES ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,2011HT ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,CORE-COLLAPSE ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Physics ,astro-ph.HE ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,EXPLOSION ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,MASS-LOSS ,SIMULATIONS ,EVOLUTION ,Supernova ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,ABUNDANCE ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,EMISSION - Abstract
We present ultra-violet to mid-infrared observations of the long-lasting Type IIn supernova (SN) 2013L obtained by the Carnegie Supernova Project II (CSP-II). The spectra of SN 2013L are dominated by H emission features characterized by three components attributed to different regions. A unique feature of this Type IIn SN is that the blue shifted line profile is dominated by the macroscopic velocity of the expanding shock wave of the SN. We are therefore able to trace the evolution of the shock velocity in the dense and partially opaque circumstellar medium (CSM), from $\sim 4800~km~s^{-1}$ at +48 d, decreasing as $t^{-0.23}$ to $\sim 2700~km~s^{-1}$ after a year. We perform spectral modeling of both the broad- and intermediate-velocity components of the H$\alpha$ line profile. The high-velocity component is consistent with emission from a radially thin, spherical shell located behind the expanding shock with emission wings broadened by electron scattering. We propose that the intermediate component originates from pre-ionized gas from the unshocked dense CSM with the same velocity as the narrow component, $\sim 100~km~s^{-1}$, but also broadened by electron scattering. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of SN 2013L after +132 d are well reproduced by a two-component black-body (BB) model. The circumstellar-interaction model of the bolometric light curve reveals a mass-loss rate history with large values ($1.7\times 10^{-2} - 0.15~M_\odot~yr^{-1}$) over the $\sim $25 - 40 years before explosion. The drop in the light curve at $\sim 350$ days and presence of electron scattering wings at late epochs indicate an anisotropic CSM. The mass-loss rate values and the unshocked CSM velocity are consistent with the characteristics of a massive star, such as a luminous blue variable (LBV) undergoing strong eruptions, similar to $\eta$ Carina., Comment: Replaced after language editor corrections, accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43 pages, 29 figures. Abstract abridged
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46. Arbitrarily many independent observers can share the nonlocality of a single maximally entangled qubit pair
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Peter J. Brown, Roger Colbeck, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Department of Mathematics, University of York, University of York [York, UK], École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and ANR-18-CE47-0011,ACOM,Une Théorie Algorithmique de la Communcation(2018)
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Discrete mathematics ,Quantum Physics ,Class (set theory) ,Computer science ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Physics and Astronomy ,CHSH inequality ,01 natural sciences ,Constructive ,Quantum nonlocality ,Alice and Bob ,[PHYS.QPHY]Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph] ,Bell's theorem ,Qubit ,0103 physical sciences ,Quantum Physics (quant-ph) ,010306 general physics ,Randomness ,Computer Science::Cryptography and Security - Abstract
Alice and Bob each have half of a pair of entangled qubits. Bob measures his half and then passes his qubit to a second Bob who measures again and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of Bobs that can have an expected violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) Bell inequality with the single Alice. This scenario was introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)] where the authors mentioned evidence that when the Bobs act independently and with unbiased inputs then at most two of them can expect to violate the CHSH inequality with Alice. Here we show that, contrary to this evidence, arbitrarily many independent Bobs can have an expected CHSH violation with the single Alice. Our proof is constructive and our measurement strategies can be generalized to work with a larger class of two-qubit states that includes all pure entangled two-qubit states. Since violation of a Bell inequality is necessary for device-independent tasks, our work represents a step towards an eventual understanding of the limitations on how much device-independent randomness can be robustly generated from a single pair of qubits., 4+7 pages, 2 figures, v2: minor updates to match published version
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47. Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean
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Mario Hoppema, Peter J. Brown, Sheldon Bacon, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Michael P. Meredith, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Loïc Jullion, Sinhue Torres-Valdes, and G. A. MacGilchrist
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Biogeochemical cycle ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Outcrop ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Oceanography ,01 natural sciences ,Carbon cycle ,Atmosphere ,03 medical and health sciences ,Ocean gyre ,14. Life underwater ,Research Articles ,030304 developmental biology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Total organic carbon ,0303 health sciences ,geography ,Multidisciplinary ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,fungi ,SciAdv r-articles ,15. Life on land ,chemistry ,13. Climate action ,Environmental science ,Oceanic carbon cycle ,Carbon ,geographic locations ,Research Article - Abstract
Open-ocean biology and the horizontal circulation set the rate of carbon uptake in the subpolar Southern Ocean., Global climate is critically sensitive to physical and biogeochemical dynamics in the subpolar Southern Ocean, since it is here that deep, carbon-rich layers of the world ocean outcrop and exchange carbon with the atmosphere. Here, we present evidence that the conventional framework for the subpolar Southern Ocean carbon cycle, which attributes a dominant role to the vertical overturning circulation and shelf-sea processes, fundamentally misrepresents the drivers of regional carbon uptake. Observations in the Weddell Gyre—a key representative region of the subpolar Southern Ocean—show that the rate of carbon uptake is set by an interplay between the Gyre’s horizontal circulation and the remineralization at mid-depths of organic carbon sourced from biological production in the central gyre. These results demonstrate that reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean is an essential step to better define its role in past and future climate change.
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48. Superluminous supernovae from the dark energy survey
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Marcos Lima, Edward Macaulay, Tim Eifler, M. Pursiainen, E. Suchyta, G. Tarle, Marcelle Soares-Santos, Ramon Miquel, F. J. Castander, C. B. D'Andrea, Rafe Schindler, J. Gschwend, P. Wiseman, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Claudia P. Gutiérrez, A. K. Romer, T. M. C. Abbott, Felipe Menanteau, J. Carretero, Ben Hoyle, Shantanu Desai, Salcedo Romero de Ávila, C. Lidman, Chris Curtin, E. J. Sanchez, David Brooks, Robert C. Nichol, M. Sako, Cosimo Inserra, D. L. Burke, R. C. Thomas, J. De Vicente, D. L. Hollowood, Peter J. Brown, Ofer Lahav, Daniel Thomas, Jacobo Asorey, Richard Kessler, Joshua A. Frieman, Robert A. Gruendl, E. Buckley-Geer, A. A. Plazas, Flavia Sobreira, M. A. G. Maia, A. Carnero Rosell, E. Bertin, David J. James, Peter Doel, W. G. Hartley, Ricard Casas, M. E. C. Swanson, Pablo Fosalba, C. Angus, M. March, H. T. Diehl, N. Kuropatkin, Karl Glazebrook, L. N. da Costa, C. Frohmaier, Douglas L. Tucker, Kyler Kuehn, Michael Schubnell, K. Honscheid, M. Childress, B. Flaugher, Lluís Galbany, Peter Nugent, Mark Sullivan, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Jennifer L. Marshall, C. J. Miller, A. G. Kim, M. Smith, Daniel Gruen, B. P. Thomas, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), DES, National Science Foundation (US), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, European Commission, Australian Research Council, and Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil)
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Monte Carlo method ,Ia Supernovae ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astronomy & Astrophysics ,Magnetar ,01 natural sciences ,7. Clean energy ,CSM ,Affordable and Clean Energy ,supernovae: general ,0103 physical sciences ,Range (statistics) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Luminosity function ,QC ,STFC ,Spectroscopy ,SLNS ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,astro-ph.HE ,General [Supernovae] ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Break-Out ,RCUK ,Física ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Mass ,Light curve ,Galaxies ,Redshift ,Supernova ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,Redshifts ,Light Curves ,Dark energy ,SUPERNOVAS ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astronomical and Space Sciences - Abstract
Angus, C. R., et al. (DES Collaboration), We present a sample of 21 hydrogen-free superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) and one hydrogen-rich SLSN (SLSN-II) detected during the five-year Dark Energy Survey (DES). These SNe, located in the redshift range 0.220 < z < 1.998, represent the largest homogeneously selected sample of SLSN events at high redshift. We present the observed g, r, i, z light curves for these SNe, which we interpolate using Gaussian processes. The resulting light curves are analysed to determine the luminosity function of SLSNe-I, and their evolutionary timescales. The DES SLSN-I sample significantly broadens the distribution of SLSN-I light-curve properties when combined with existing samples from the literature. We fit a magnetar model to our SLSNe, and find that this model alone is unable to replicate the behaviour of many of the bolometric light curves. We search the DES SLSN-I light curves for the presence of initial peaks prior to the main light-curve peak. Using a shock breakout model, our Monte Carlo search finds that 3 of our 14 events with pre-max data display such initial peaks. However, 10 events show no evidence for such peaks, in some cases down to an absolute magnitude of, The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825,ESP2015-66861,FPA2015-68048,SEV-2016-0588,SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA programme of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), through project number CE110001020, and the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2).
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49. ASASSN-15pz: Revealing Significant Photometric Diversity among 2009dc-like, Peculiar SNe Ia
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Anthony L. Piro, Boaz Katz, Lluís Galbany, Peter A. Milne, Subhash Bose, Mark M. Phillips, Nidia Morrell, David Young, Kate Maguire, Benjamin J. Shappee, Subo Dong, Todd A. Thompson, Ping Chen, Peter J. Brown, Christopher S. Kochanek, Maximilian Stritzinger, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, Juna A. Kollmeier, and J. L. Prieto
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Astroparticle physics ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Library science ,FOS: Physical sciences ,individual: ASASSN-15pz [supernovae] ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Chinese academy of sciences ,Spitzer Space Telescope ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,Observatory ,0103 physical sciences ,Christian ministry ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,general [supernovae] ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Independent research - Abstract
We report comprehensive multi-wavelength observations of a peculiar Type Ia-like supernova ("SN Ia-pec") ASASSN-15pz. ASASSN-15pz is a spectroscopic "twin" of SN 2009dc, a so-called "Super-Chandrasekhar-mass" SN, throughout its evolution, but it has a peak luminosity M_B,peak = -19.69 +/- 0.12 mag that is \approx 0.6 mag dimmer and comparable to the SN 1991T sub-class of SNe Ia at the luminous end of the normal width-luminosity relation. The synthesized Ni56 mass of M_Ni56 = 1.13 +/- 0.14 M_sun is also substantially less than that found for several 2009dc-like SNe. Previous well-studied 2009dc-like SNe have generally suffered from large and uncertain amounts of host-galaxy extinction, which is negligible for ASASSN-15pz. Based on the color of ASASSN-15pz, we estimate a host extinction for SN 2009dc of E(B-V)_host=0.12 mag and confirm its high luminosity (M_B, peak[2009dc] \approx -20.3 mag). The 2009dc-like SN population, which represents ~1% of SNe Ia, exhibits a range of peak luminosities, and do not fit onto the tight width-luminosity relation. Their optical light curves also show significant diversity of late-time (>~ 50 days) decline rates. The nebular-phase spectra provide powerful diagnostics to identify the 2009dc-like events as a distinct class of SNe Ia. We suggest referring to these sources using the phenomenology-based "2009dc-like SN Ia-pec" instead of "Super-Chandrasekhar SN Ia," which is based on an uncertain theoretical interpretation., 21 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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50. Probing type Ia supernova properties using bolometric light curves from the Carnegie Supernova Project and the CfA Supernova Group
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Mark M. Phillips, E. Parent, Carlos Contreras, Brad E. Tucker, Kevin Krisciunas, Peter J. Brown, Anthony L. Piro, Richard Scalzo, Christopher R. Burns, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Nidia Morrell, Maximilian Stritzinger, Eric Hsiao, and M. J. Childress
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statistical [Methods] ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,general [Supernovae] ,PROGENITOR ,FACTORY OBSERVATIONS ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,Photometry (optics) ,symbols.namesake ,MASS WHITE-DWARF ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,Dark energy ,DELAYED-DETONATION MODELS ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,FAINT END ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,NI-56 PRODUCTION ,Bolometer ,White dwarf ,White dwarfs ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Light curve ,Galaxy ,Supernova ,13. Climate action ,Space and Planetary Science ,IMPROVED DISTANCES ,symbols ,LUMINOSITY ,EXPLOSION MECHANISM ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Hubble's law ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics ,HUBBLE CONSTANT - Abstract
We present bolometric light curves constructed from multi-wavelength photometry of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Carnegie Supernova Project and the CfA Supernova Group, using near-infrared observations to provide robust constraints on host galaxy dust extinction. This set of light curves form a well-measured reference set for comparison with theoretical models. Ejected mass and synthesized $^{56}$Ni mass are inferred for each SN Ia from its bolometric light curve using a semi-analytic Bayesian light curve model, and fitting formulae provided in terms of light curve width parameters from the SALT2 and SNooPy light curve fitters. A weak bolometric width-luminosity relation is confirmed, along with a correlation between ejected mass and the bolometric light curve width. SNe Ia likely to have sub-Chandrasekhar ejected masses belong preferentially to the broad-line and cool-photosphere spectroscopic subtypes, and have higher photospheric velocities and populate older, higher-mass host galaxies than SNe Ia consistent with Chandrasekhar-mass explosions. Two peculiar events, SN 2006bt and SN 2006ot, have normal peak luminosities but appear to have super-Chandrasekhar ejected masses., Comment: 26 pages, 14 figures; accepted to MNRAS. An online-only appendix in the MNRAS version is included as a supplemental appendix to the arXiv text; online-only tables, including bolometric light curves and MCMC inversion results, are included as ancillary files
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- 2019
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