Supernovae 2016bdu and 2005gl, and their link with SN 2009ip-like transients: another piece of the puzzle

Clues to the nature of SN 2009ip – II. The continuing photometric and spectroscopic evolution to 1000 days

(2017) M. L. Graham et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The bumpy light curve of Type IIn supernova iPTF13z over 3 years

(2017) A. Nyholm et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

SN 2015bh: NGC 2770’s 4th supernova or a luminous blue variable on its way to a Wolf-Rayet star?

(2017) C. C. Thöne et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

SN2015bh in NGC 2770: LBV core collapse in merging of binary system components

(2016) V. P. Goranskij et al.   Astrophysical Bulletin

Explaining two recent intermediate-luminosity optical transients (ILOTs) by a binary interaction and jets

(2016) Noam Soker et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Was the nineteenth century giant eruption of Eta Carinae a merger event in a triple system?

(2016) S. F. Portegies Zwart et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The multifaceted Type II-L supernova 2014G from pre-maximum to nebular phase

(2016) G. Terreran et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Models of interacting supernovae and their spectral diversity

(2016) Luc Dessart et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive stars dying alone: the extremely remote environment of SN 2009ip

(2016) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The spectacular evolution of Supernova 1996al over 15 yr: a low-energy explosion of a stripped massive star in a highly structured environment

(2016) S. Benetti et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Dead or Alive? Long-term evolution of SN 2015bh (SNhunt275)

(2016) N. Elias-Rosa et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Endurance of SN 2005ip after a decade: X-rays, radio and Hα like SN 1988Z require long-lived pre-supernova mass-loss

(2016) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Interacting supernovae and supernova impostors. LSQ13zm: an outburst heralds the death of a massive star

(2016) L. Tartaglia et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive star mergers and the recent transient in NGC 4490: a more massive cousin of V838 Mon and V1309 Sco

(2016) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey

(2015) R. García-Benito et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

SN 2009ip at late times – an interacting transient at +2 years

(2015) Morgan Fraser et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Constraints on Type IIn supernova progenitor outbursts from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search

(2015) C. Bilinski et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium – IX. SN 2014av, and characterization of Type Ibn SNe

(2015) A. Pastorello et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

CALIFA, the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey

(2015) R. García-Benito et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Update on H i data collection from Green Bank, Parkes and Arecibo telescopes for the Cosmic Flows project

(2015) Hélène M. Courtois et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Mass Loss: Its Effect on the Evolution and Fate of High-Mass Stars

(2014) Nathan Smith   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Pulsations of red supergiant pair-instability supernova progenitors leading to extreme mass loss

(2014) Takashi J. Moriya et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

CLUES TO THE NATURE OF SN 2009ip FROM PHOTOMETRIC AND SPECTROSCOPIC EVOLUTION TO LATE TIMES

(2014) M. L. Graham et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A MULTI-WAVELENGTH INVESTIGATION OF THE RADIO-LOUD SUPERNOVA PTF11qcj AND ITS CIRCUMSTELLAR ENVIRONMENT

(2014) A. Corsi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

PRECURSORS PRIOR TO TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS ARE COMMON: PRECURSOR RATES, PROPERTIES, AND CORRELATIONS

(2014) Eran O. Ofek et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE INCIDENCE OF STELLAR MERGERS AND MASS GAINERS AMONG MASSIVE STARS

(2014) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN: X-RAYS DRIVE THE UV THROUGH NIR VARIABILITY IN THE 2013 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS OUTBURST IN NGC 2617

(2014) B. J. Shappee et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Multi-epoch spectropolarimetry of SN 2009ip: direct evidence for aspherical circumstellar material

(2014) Jon Mauerhan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Stellar mergers are common

(2014) C. S. Kochanek et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

THE PECULIAR BALMER DECREMENT OF SN 2009ip: CONSTRAINTS ON CIRCUMSTELLAR GEOMETRY

(2013) Emily M. Levesque et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Carnegie Supernova Project: Observations of Type IIn supernovae

(2013) F. Taddia et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

SETTING THE STAGE FOR CIRCUMSTELLAR INTERACTION IN CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE. II. WAVE-DRIVEN MASS LOSS IN SUPERNOVA PROGENITORS

(2013) Joshua H. Shiode et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SN 2009ip: CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROGENITOR MASS-LOSS RATE

(2013) E. O. Ofek et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

INTERACTING SUPERNOVAE AND SUPERNOVA IMPOSTORS: SN 2009ip, IS THIS THE END?

(2013) A. Pastorello et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A PANCHROMATIC VIEW OF THE RESTLESS SN 2009ip REVEALS THE EXPLOSIVE EJECTION OF A MASSIVE STAR ENVELOPE

(2013) R. Margutti et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE ROTATION RATES OF MASSIVE STARS: THE ROLE OF BINARY INTERACTION THROUGH TIDES, MASS TRANSFER, AND MERGERS

(2013) S. E. de Mink et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DETECTION OF AN OUTBURST ONE YEAR PRIOR TO THE EXPLOSION OF SN 2011ht

(2013) M. Fraser et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

EXPLAINING THE SUPERNOVA IMPOSTOR SN 2009ip AS MERGERBURST

(2013) Noam Soker et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

ACCELERATING VERY FAST GAS IN THE SUPERNOVA IMPOSTOR SN 2009ip WITH JETS FROM A STELLAR COMPANION

(2013) Danny Tsebrenko et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

THE 2012 RISE OF THE REMARKABLE TYPE IIn SN 2009ip

(2013) José L. Prieto et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

SN 2009ip à la PESSTO: no evidence for core collapse yet★

(2013) Morgan Fraser et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SN 2011ht: confirming a class of interacting supernovae with plateau light curves (Type IIn-P)

(2013) Jon C. Mauerhan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Near-infrared spectroscopy of SN 2009ip's 2012 brightening reveals a dusty pre-supernova environment

(2013) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Powering the second 2012 outburst of SN 2009ip by repeating binary interaction

(2013) Amit Kashi et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

SN 2009ip and SN 2010mc: core-collapse Type IIn supernovae arising from blue supergiants

(2013) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The unprecedented 2012 outburst of SN 2009ip: a luminous blue variable star becomes a true supernova

(2013) Jon C. Mauerhan et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The Crab nebula and the class of Type IIn-P supernovae caused by sub-energetic electron-capture explosions

(2013) Nathan Smith   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

An outburst from a massive star 40 days before a supernova explosion

(2013) E. O. Ofek et al.   NATURE

Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars

(2012) N. Langer   Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics

THE UNUSUAL TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL EVOLUTION OF SN2011ht. II. PECULIAR TYPE IIn OR IMPOSTOR?

(2012) Roberta M. Humphreys et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

RADIO AND X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF SN 2006jd: ANOTHER STRONGLY INTERACTING TYPE IIn SUPERNOVA

(2012) Poonam Chandra et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SUPERLUMINOUS LIGHT CURVES FROM SUPERNOVAE EXPLODING IN A DENSE WIND

(2012) Sivan Ginzburg et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

OPTICAL TO X-RAY SUPERNOVA LIGHT CURVES FOLLOWING SHOCK BREAKOUT THROUGH A THICK WIND

(2012) Gilad Svirski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

HYDROGEN-POOR CIRCUMSTELLAR SHELLS FROM PULSATIONAL PAIR-INSTABILITY SUPERNOVAE WITH RAPIDLY ROTATING PROGENITORS

(2012) E. Chatzopoulos et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

COMMON ENVELOPE EVOLUTION LEADING TO SUPERNOVAE WITH DENSE INTERACTION

(2012) Roger A. Chevalier   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Merger by migration at the final phase of common envelope evolution

(2012) Noam Soker   NEW ASTRONOMY

The Palomar Transient Factory photometric catalog 1.0

(2012) E. O. Ofek et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

WISeREP—An Interactive Supernova Data Repository

(2012) Ofer Yaron et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars

(2012) H. Sana et al.   SCIENCE

SN 2009E: a faint clone of SN 1987A

(2011) A. Pastorello et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

TURBULENT CELLS IN STARS: FLUCTUATIONS IN KINETIC ENERGY AND LUMINOSITY

(2011) W. David Arnett et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE DIVERSITY OF MASSIVE STAR OUTBURSTS. I. OBSERVATIONS OF SN2009ip, UGC 2773 OT2009-1, AND THEIR PROGENITORS

(2011) Ryan J. Foley et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CALTECH CORE-COLLAPSE PROJECT (CCCP) OBSERVATIONS OF TYPE IIn SUPERNOVAE: TYPICAL PROPERTIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THEIR PROGENITOR STARS

(2011) Michael Kiewe et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MEASURING REDDENING WITH SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY STELLAR SPECTRA AND RECALIBRATING SFD

(2011) Edward F. Schlafly et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SHOCK BREAKOUT IN DENSE MASS LOSS: LUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE

(2011) Roger A. Chevalier et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A revised historical light curve of Eta Carinae and the timing of close periastron encounters

(2011) Nathan Smith et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Nearby supernova rates from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search - I. The methods and data base

(2011) Jesse Leaman et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Supernovae from red supergiants with extensive mass loss

(2011) Takashi Moriya et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

DISCOVERY OF PRECURSOR LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLE OUTBURSTS IN TWO RECENT OPTICAL TRANSIENTS: THE FITFULLY VARIABLE MISSING LINKS UGC 2773-OT AND SN 2009ip

(2010) Nathan Smith et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

PERIASTRON PASSAGE TRIGGERING OF THE 19TH CENTURY ERUPTIONS OF ETA CARINAE

(2010) Amit Kashi et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

FALLBACK SUPERNOVAE: A POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF PECULIAR SUPERNOVAE WITH EXTREMELY LOW EXPLOSION ENERGIES

(2010) Takashi Moriya et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Multiple major outbursts from a restless luminous blue variable in NGC 3432

(2010) A. Pastorello et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

An Early Warning System for Asteroid Impact

(2010) John L. Tonry   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

FIRST RESULTS FROM THE CATALINA REAL-TIME TRANSIENT SURVEY

(2009) A. J. Drake et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SN 1994W: an interacting supernova or two interacting shells?

(2009) Luc Dessart et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl

(2009) A. Gal-Yam et al.   NATURE

The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance, and First Results

(2009) Nicholas M. Law et al.   PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium - I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events

(2008) A. Pastorello et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY