Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 481, Issue 1, Pages 894-917Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2309
Keywords
supernovae: general
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Funding
- EU/FP7-ERC [615929]
- ESO Science Archive Facility [097.D-0709]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) [CE110001020]
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- Ministry of Science and Education of Spain
- Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago
- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University
- Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas AM University
- Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
- Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico
- Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey
- National Science Foundation [AST-1138766, AST-1536171]
- MINECO [AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, MDM-2015-0509]
- ERDF funds from the European Union
- CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya
- European Research Council under the European Union' [240672, 291329, 306478]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAAS-TRO) [CE110001020]
- Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq) [465376/2014-2]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/P000398/1]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics [DE-AC02-07CH11359]
- STFC [ST/K00090X/1, ST/F002335/1, ST/I001204/1, ST/J005428/1, ST/K006797/1, ST/M007030/1, ST/L005573/1, ST/P000398/1, ST/M002853/1, ST/M001334/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1720756] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1720756] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present the results of a search for rapidly evolving transients in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Programme. These events are characterized by fast light-curve evolution (rise to peak in less than or similar to 10 d and exponential decline in less than or similar to 30 d after peak). We discovered 72 events, including 37 transients with a spectroscopic redshift from host galaxy spectral features. The 37 events increase the total number of rapid optical transients by more than a factor of two. They are found at a wide range of redshifts (0.05 < z < 1.56) and peak brightnesses (-15.75 > M-g > -22.25). The multiband photometry is well fit by a blackbody up to few weeks after peak. The events appear to be hot (T approximate to 10 000-30 000 K) and large (R approximate to 10(14) -2 x 10(15) cm) at peak, and generally expand and cool in time, though some events show evidence for a receding photosphere with roughly constant temperature. Spectra taken around peak are dominated by a blue featureless continuum consistent with hot, optically thick ejecta. We compare our events with a previously suggested physical scenario involving shock breakout in an optically thick wind surrounding a core-collapse supernova, we conclude that current models for such a scenario might need an additional power source to describe the exponential decline. We find that these transients tend to favour star-forming host galaxies, which could be consistent with a core-collapse origin. However, more detailed modelling of the light curves is necessary to determine their physical origin.
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