SN 1987A was an unusual hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernova originating from a blue supergiant star. Similar blue supergiant explosions remain a small family of events, and are broadly characterized by their long rises to peak. The Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe (CLU) experiment aims to construct a spectroscopically complete sample of transients occurring in galaxies from the CLU galaxy catalog. We identify 13 long-rising (>40 days) Type II supernovae from the volume-limited CLU experiment during a 3.5 yr period from 2018 June to 2021 December, approximately doubling the previously known number of these events. We present photometric and spectroscopic data of these 13 events, finding peak r-band absolute magnitudes ranging from −15.6 to −17.5 mag and the tentative detection of Ba ii lines in nine events. Using our CLU sample of events, we derive a long-rising Type II supernova rate of 1.37_(−0.30)^(+0.26) × 10⁻⁶ Mpc−3 yr−1, ≈1.4% of the total core-collapse supernova rate. This is the first volumetric rate of these events estimated from a large, systematic, volume-limited experiment.
Long-rising Type II Supernovae in the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe
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Sit, Tawny
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Kasliwal, Mansi M.1
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Tzanidakis, Anastasios
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De, Kishalay
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Fremling, Christoffer
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Sollerman, Jesper
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Gal-Yam, Avishay
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Miller, Adam A.
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Adams, Scott
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Aloisi, Robert
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Andreoni, Igor
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Chu, Matthew
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Cook, David
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Das, Kaustav Kashyap
- Dugas, Alison
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Groom, Steven L.
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Ho, Anna Y. Q.
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Karambelkar, Viraj
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Neill, James D.
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Masci, Frank J.
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Medford, Michael S.
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Purdum, Josiah
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Sharma, Yashvi
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Smith, Roger1
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Stein, Robert
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Yan, Lin
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Yao, Yuhan
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Zhang, Chaoran
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Acknowledgement
We thank the anonymous referee for their constructive comments. Based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin Telescope 48 inch and the 60 inch Telescope at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant Nos. AST-1440341 and AST-2034437 and a collaboration including current partners Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Trinity College Dublin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, IN2P3, University of Warwick, Ruhr University Bochum, Northwestern University and former partners the University of Washington, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW. The SED Machine is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 1106171.
The ZTF forced-photometry service was funded under the Heising-Simons Foundation grant No. 12540303 (PI: Graham). The GROWTH Marshal was supported by the GROWTH project funded by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 1545949.
Some of the data presented in this work were obtained at the W. M. Keck Observatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant cultural role and reverence that the summit of Maunakea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain.
This research made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED; NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), 2019b), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology, and Astropy, 19 a community-developed core Python package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013, 2018).
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- National Science Foundation
- AST-1440341
- National Science Foundation
- AST-2034437
- National Science Foundation
- AST-1106171
- Heising-Simons Foundation
- 12540303
- National Science Foundation
- OISE-1545949
- W. M. Keck Foundation
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Caltech groups
- Astronomy Department, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Zwicky Transient Facility