Professor Mark Sullivan

Head of School of Physics and Astronomy

Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences ED&I Champion

Professor Mark Sullivan graduated from Southampton (MPhys with Astronomy), and received a PhD in Astronomy from Cambridge. Following postdoctoral fellowship positions in Durham, Toronto and Oxford, Mark came back to Southampton in 2012 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He is now a Professor of Astrophysics in the Astronomy Group, and Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy.

Research

Research interests

Mark's research interests include supernovae, dark energy, galaxy evolution, and applications of data science techniques to astrophysics research. His supernova research group has been funded by the European Research Council and by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and he is the PI of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science (DISCnet).

Publications

Sullivan, M., Conley, A., Howell, D.A., Neill, J.D., Astier, P., Balland, C., Basa, S., Carlberg, R.G., Fouchez, D., Guy, J., Hardin, D., Hook, I.M., Pain, R., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Perrett, K.M., Pritchet, C.J., Regnault, N., Rich, J., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Baumont, S., Hsiao, E., Kronborg, T., Lidman, C., Perlmutter, S. and Walker, E.S. (2010) The dependence of Type Ia supernovae luminosities on their host galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 406 (2), 782-802. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16731.x).

Sullivan, M., Guy, J., Conley, A., Regnault, N., Astier, P., Balland, C., Basa, S., Carlberg, R.G., Fouchez, D., Hardin, D., Hook, I.M., Howell, D.A., Pain, R., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Perrett, K.M., Pritchet, C.J., Rich, J., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Balam, D., Baumont, S., Ellis, R.S., Fabbro, S., Fakhouri, H.K., Fourmanoit, N., González-Gaitán, S., Graham, M.L., Hudson, M.J., Hsiao, E., Kronborg, T., Lidman, C., Mourao, A.M., Neill, J.D., Perlmutter, S., Ripoche, P., Suzuki, N. and Walker, E.S. (2011) SNLS3: Constraints on dark energy combining the supernova legacy survey three-year data with other probes. Astrophysical Journal, 737 (2), 102-121. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/102).

Nugent, Peter E., Sullivan, Mark, Cenko, S. Bradley, Thomas, Rollin C., Kasen, Daniel, Howell, D. Andrew, Bersier, David, Bloom, Joshua S., Kulkarni, S. R., Kandrashoff, Michael T., Filippenko, Alexei V., Silverman, Jeffrey M., Marcy, Geoffrey W., Howard, Andrew W., Isaacson, Howard T., Maguire, Kate, Suzuki, Nao, Tarlton, James E., Pan, Yen-Chen, Bildsten, Lars, Fulton, Benjamin J., Parrent, Jerod T., Sand, David, Podsiadlowski, Philipp, Bianco, Federica B., Dilday, Benjamin, Graham, Melissa L., Lyman, Joe, James, Phil, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Law, Nicholas M., Quimby, Robert M., Hook, Isobel M., Walker, Emma S., Mazzali, Paolo, Pian, Elena, Ofek, Eran O., Gal-Yam, Avishay and Poznanski, Dovi (2011) Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star. Nature, 480 (7377), 344-347. (doi:10.1038/nature10644).

Ellis, R.S., Sullivan, M., Nugent, P.E., Howell, D.A., Gal‐Yam, A., Astier, P., Balam, D., Balland, C., Basa, S., Carlberg, R.G., Conley, A., Fouchez, D., Guy, J., Hardin, D., Hook, I., Pain, R., Perrett, K., Pritchet, C.J. and Regnault, N. (2008) Verifying the cosmological utility of type Ia supernovae: implications of a dispersion in the ultraviolet spectra. The Astrophysical Journal, 674 (1), 51-69. (doi:10.1086/524981).

Guy, J., Sullivan, Mark, Conley, A., Regnault, N., Astier, P., Balland, C., Basa, S., Carlberg, R., Fouchez, D., Hardin, D., Hook, I., Howell, D., Pain, R., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Perrett, K., Pritchet, C., Rich, J., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Balam, D., Baumont, S., Ellis, R., Fabbro, S., Fakhouri, H., Fourmanoit, N., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Graham, M., Hsiao, E., Kronborg, T., Lidman, C., Mourao, A., Perlmutter, S., Ripoche, P., Suzuki, N. and Walker, E. (2010) The Supernova Legacy Survey 3-year sample: type Ia supernovae photometric distances and cosmological constraints. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 523 (A7), 1-34. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201014468).

Maguire, K., Sullivan, M., Patat, F., Gal-Yam, A., Hook, I. M., Dhawan, S., Howell, D. A., Mazzali, P., Nugent, P. E., Pan, Y.- C., Podsiadlowski, P., Simon, J. D., Sternberg, A., Valenti, S., Baltay, C., Bersier, D., Blagorodnova, N., Chen, T.- W., Ellman, N., Feindt, U., Forster, F., Fraser, M., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Graham, M. L., Gutierrez, C., Hachinger, S., Hadjiyska, E., Inserra, C., Knapic, C., Laher, R. R., Leloudas, G., Margheim, S., McKinnon, R., Molinaro, M., Morrell, N., Ofek, E. O., Rabinowitz, D., Rest, A., Sand, D., Smareglia, R., Smartt, S. J., Taddia, F., Walker, E. S., Walton, N. A. and Young, D. R. (2013) A statistical analysis of circumstellar material in Type Ia supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 436 (1), 222-240. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1586).

Betoule, M., Kessler, R., Guy, J., Mosher, J., Hardin, D., Biswas, R., Astier, P., El-Hage, P., Konig, M., Kuhlmann, S., Marriner, J., Pain, R., Regnault, N., Balland, C., Bassett, B.A., Brown, P.J., Campbell, H., Carlberg, R.G., Cellier-Holzem, F., Cinabro, D., Conley, A., D’Andrea, C.B., DePoy, D.L., Doi, M., Ellis, R.S., Fabbro, S., Filippenko, A.V., Foley, R.J., Frieman, J.A., Fouchez, D., Galbany, L., Goobar, A., Gupta, R.R., Hill, G.J., Hlozek, R., Hogan, C.J., Hook, I.M., Howell, D.A., Jha, S.W., Le Guillou, L., Leloudas, G., Lidman, C., Marshall, J.L., Möller, A., Mourão, A.M., Neveu, J., Nichol, R., Olmstead, M.D., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Perlmutter, S., Prieto, J.L., Pritchet, C.J., Richmond, M., Riess, A.G., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Sako, M., Schahmaneche, K., Schneider, D.P., Smith, M., Sollerman, J., Sullivan, M., Walton, N.A. and Wheeler, C.J. (2014) Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 568 (A22), 1-32, [A22]. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201423413).

Arcavi, Iair, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Sullivan, Mark, Pan, Yen-Chen, Cenko, S. Bradley, Horesh, Assaf, Ofek, Eran O., De Cia, Annalisa, Yan, Lin, Yang, Chen-Wei, Howell, D.A., Tal, David, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Tendulkar, Shriharsh P., Tang, Sumin, Xu, Dong, Sternberg, Assaf, Cohen, Judith G., Bloom, Joshua S., Nugent, Peter E., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Perley, Daniel A., Quimby, Robert M., Miller, Adam A., Theissen, Christopher A. and Laher, Russ R. (2014) A continuum of H- to He-rich tidal disruption candidates with a preference for E+A galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal, 793 (38), 1-16. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/793/1/38).

Mazzali, P.A., Sullivan, M., Hachinger, S., Ellis, R.S., Nugent, P.E., Howell, D.A., Gal-Yam, A., Maguire, K., Cooke, J., Thomas, R., Nomoto, K. and Walker, E.S. (2014) Hubble Space Telescope spectra of the Type Ia supernova SN 2011fe: a tail of low-density, high-velocity material with Z <Z. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439 (2), 1959-1979. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stu077).

Nicholl, M., Smartt, S.J., Jerkstrand, A., Inserra, C., Anderson, J.P., Baltay, C., Benetti, S., Chen, T.- W., Elias-Rosa, N., Feindt, U., Fraser, M., Gal-Yam, A., Hadjiyska, E., Howell, D.A., Kotak, R., Lawrence, A., Leloudas, G., Margheim, S., Mattila, S., McCrum, M., McKinnon, R., Mead, A., Nugent, P., Rabinowitz, D., Rest, A., Smith, K.W., Sollerman, J., Sullivan, M., Taddia, F., Valenti, S., Walker, E.S. and Young, D.R. (2014) Superluminous supernovae from PESSTO. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 (3), 2096-2113. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1579).

Ofek, Eran O., Zoglauer, Andreas, Boggs, Steven E., Barriére, Nicolas M., Reynolds, Stephen P., Fryer, Chris L., Harrison, Fiona A., Cenko, S. Bradley, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Arcavi, Iair, Bellm, Eric, Bloom, Joshua S., Christensen, Finn, Craig, William W., Even, Wesley, Filippenko, Alexei V., Grefenstette, Brian, Hailey, Charles J., Laher, Russ, Madsen, Kristin, Nakar, Ehud, Nugent, Peter E., Stern, Daniel, Sullivan, Mark, Surace, Jason and Zhang, William W. (2014) SN 2010jl: Optical to hard x-ray observations reveal an explosion embedded in a ten solar mass cocoon. The Astrophysical Journal, 781 (42), 1-17. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/781/1/42).

Ofek, Eran O., Sullivan, Mark, Shaviv, Nir J., Steinbok, Aviram, Arcavi, Iair, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Tal, David, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Nugent, Peter E., Ben-Ami, Sagi, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Cenko, S. Bradley, Laher, Russ, Surace, Jason, Bloom, Joshua S., Filippenko, Alexei V., Silverman, Jeffrey M. and Yaron, Ofer (2014) Precursors prior to type IIn supernova explosions are common: precursor rates, properties, and correlations. The Astrophysical Journal, 789 (104), 1-15. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/104).

Pan, Y.- C., Sullivan, M., Maguire, K., Hook, I.M., Nugent, P.E., Howell, D.A., Arcavi, I., Botyanszki, J., Cenko, S.B., DeRose, J., Fakhouri, H.K., Gal-Yam, A., Hsiao, E., Kulkarni, S.R., Laher, R.R., Lidman, C., Nordin, J., Walker, E.S. and Xu, D. (2014) The host galaxies of Type Ia supernovae discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 438 (2), 1391-1416. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stt2287).

Smith, N., Mauerhan, J.C., Cenko, S.B., Kasliwal, M.M., Silverman, J.M., Filippenko, A.V., Gal-Yam, A., Clubb, K.I., Graham, M.L., Leonard, D.C., Horst, J.C., Williams, G.G., Andrews, J.E., Kulkarni, S.R., Nugent, P., Sullivan, M., Maguire, K., Xu, D. and Ben-Ami, S. (2015) PTF11iqb: cool supergiant mass-loss that bridges the gap between Type IIn and normal supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449 (2), 1876-1896. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv354).

Smartt, S.J., Valenti, S., Fraser, M., Inserra, C., Young, D.R., Sullivan, M., Pastorello, A., Benetti, S., Gal-Yam, A., Knapic, C., Molinaro, M., Smareglia, R., Smith, K.W., Taubenberger, S., Yaron, O., Anderson, J.P., Ashall, C., Balland, C., Baltay, C., Barbarino, C., Bauer, F.E., Baumont, S., Bersier, D., Blagorodnova, N., Bongard, S., Botticella, M.T., Bufano, F., Bulla, M., Cappellaro, E., Campbell, H., Cellier-Holzem, F., Chen, T.-W., Childress, M.J., Clocchiatti, A., Contreras, C., Dall’Ora, M., Danziger, J., de Jaeger, T., De Cia, A., Della Valle, M., Dennefeld, M., Elias-Rosa, N., Elman, N., Feindt, U., Fleury, M., Gall, E., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Galbany, L., Morales Garoffolo, A., Greggio, L., Guillou, L.L., Hachinger, S., Hadjiyska, E., Hage, P.E., Hillebrandt, W., Hodgkin, S., Hsiao, E.Y., James, P.A., Jerkstrand, A., Kangas, T., Kankare, E., Kotak, R., Kromer, M., Kuncarayakti, H., Leloudas, G., Lundqvist, P., Lyman, J.D., Hook, I.M., Maguire, K., Manulis, I., Margheim, S.J., Mattila, S., Maund, J.R., Mazzali, P.A., McCrum, M., McKinnon, R., Moreno-Raya, M.E., Nicholl, M., Nugent, P., Pain, R., Pignata, G., Phillips, M.M., Polshaw, J., Pumo, M.L., Rabinowitz, D., Reilly, E., Romero-Cañizales, C., Scalzo, R., Schmidt, B., Schulze, S., Sim, S., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F., Tartaglia, L., Terreran, G., Tomasella, L., Turatto, M., Walker, E., Walton, N.A., Wyrzykowski, L., Yuan, F. and Zampieri, L. (2015) PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 579 (A40), 1-25. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201425237).

Valenti, S., Yuan, F., Taubenberger, S., Maguire, K., Pastorello, A., Benetti, S., Smartt, S.J., Cappellaro, E., Howell, D.A., Bildsten, L., Moore, K., Stritzinger, M., Anderson, J.P., Benitez-Herrera, S., Bufano, F., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., McCrum, M.G., Pignata, G., Fraser, M., Gal-Yam, A., Le Guillou, L., Inserra, C., Reichart, D.E., Scalzo, R., Sullivan, M., Yaron, O. and Young, D.R. (2014) PESSTO monitoring of SN 2012hn: further heterogeneity among faint Type I supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437 (2), 1519-1533. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stt1983).

White, Christopher J., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nugent, Peter E., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Howell, D. Andrew, Sullivan, Mark, Goobar, Ariel, Piro, Anthony L., Bloom, Joshua S., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank, Ofek, Eran O., Surace, Jason, Ben-Ami, Sagi, Cao, Yi, Cenko, S. Bradley, Hook, Isobel M., Jönsson, Jakob, Matheson, Thomas, Sternberg, Assaf, Quimby, Robert M. and Yaron, Ofer (2015) Slow-speed supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory: two channels. The Astrophysical Journal, 799 (52), 1-21. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/52).

Nicholl, M., Smartt, S.J., Jerkstrand, A., Inserra, C., Sim, S.A., Chen, T.-W., Benetti, S., Fraser, M., Gal-Yam, A., Kankare, E., Maguire, K., Smith, K., Sullivan, M., Valenti, S., Young, D.R., Baltay, C., Bauer, F.E., Baumont, S., Bersier, D., Botticella, M.-T., Childress, M., Dennefeld, M., Della Valle, M., Elias-Rosa, N., Feindt, U., Galbany, L., Hadjiyska, E., Le Guillou, L., Leloudas, G., Mazzali, P., McKinnon, R., Polshaw, J., Rabinowitz, D., Rostami, S., Scalzo, R., Schmidt, B.P., Schulze, S., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F. and Yuan, F. (2015) On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452 (4), 3869-3893. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1522).

Firth, R.E., Sullivan, M., Gal-Yam, A., Howell, D.A., Maguire, K., Nugent, P., Piro, A.L., Baltay, C., Feindt, U., Hadjiyksta, E., McKinnon, R., Ofek, E., Rabinowitz, D. and Walker, E.S. (2015) The rising light curves of Type Ia supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446 (4), 3895-3910. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2314).

Vreeswijk, Paul M., Savaglio, Sandra, Gal-Yam, Avishay, De Cia, Annalisa, Quimby, Robert M., Sullivan, Mark, Cenko, S. Bradley, Perley, Daniel A., Filippenko, Alexei V., Clubb, Kelsey I., Taddia, Francesco, Sollerman, Jesper, Leloudas, Giorgos, Arcavi, Iair, Rubin, Adam, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Cao, Yi, Yaron, Ofer, Tal, David, Ofek, Eran O., Capone, John, Kutyrev, Alexander S., Toy, Vicki, Nugent, Peter E., Laher, Russ, Surace, Jason and Kulkarni, Shrinivas R. (2014) The hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova iPTF 13ajg and its host galaxy in absorption and emission. The Astrophysical Journal, 797 (24), 1-15. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/797/1/24).

Maguire, K., Sullivan, M., Pan, Y.-C., Gal-Yam, A., Hook, I.M., Howell, D.A., Nugent, P.E., Mazzali, P., Chotard, N., Clubb, K.I., Filippenko, A.V., Kasliwal, M.M., Kandrashoff, M.T., Poznanski, D., Saunders, C.M., Silverman, J.M., Walker, E. and Xu, D. (2014) Exploring the spectral diversity of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae using the Palomar Transient Factory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 444 (4), 3258-3274. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stu1607).

Corsi, A., Ofek, E.O., Gal-Yam, A., Frail, D.A., Kulkarni, S.R., Fox, D.B., Kasliwal, M.M., Sullivan, M., Horesh, A., Carpenter, J., Maguire, K., Arcavi, I., Cenko, S.B., Cao, Y., Mooley, K., Pan, Y.-C., Sesar, B., Sternberg, A., Xu, D., Bersier, D., James, P., Bloom, J.S. and Nugent, P.E. (2014) A multi-wavelength investigation of the radio-loud supernova PTF11qcj and its circumstellar environment. The Astrophysical Journal, 782 (42), 1-18. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/782/1/42).

Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Tominaga, N., Molina, J., Galbany, L., Bufano, F., Anderson, J.P., Gutierrez, C., Forster, F., Pignata, G., Bersten, M., Howell, D.A., Sullivan, M., Carlberg, R., de Jaeger, T., Hamuy, M., Baklanov, P.V. and Blinnikov, S.I. (2015) The rise-time of Type II supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451 (2), 2212-2229. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1097).

Papadopoulos, A., D'andrea, C.B., Sullivan, M., Nichol, R.C., Barbary, K., Biswas, R., Brown, P.J., Covarrubias, R.A., Finley, D.A., Fischer, J.A., Foley, R.J., Goldstein, D., Gupta, R.R., Kessler, R., Kovacs, E., Kuhlmann, S.E., Lidman, C., March, M., Nugent, P.E., Sako, M., Smith, R.C., Spinka, H., Wester, W., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F., Allam, S.S., Banerji, M., Bernstein, J.P., Bernstein, R.A., Carnero, A., da Costa, L.N., DePoy, D L., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Eifler, T., Evrard, A.E., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J.A., Gerdes, D., Gruen, D., Honscheid, K., James, D., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Maia, M.A.G., Makler, M., Marshall, J.L., Merritt, K.W., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Ogando, R., Plazas, A.A., Roe, N.A., Romer, A.K., Rykoff, E., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B.X., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Sevilla, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M., Tarle, G., Thaler, J., Tucker, L.D., Wechsler, R.H. and Zuntz, J. (2015) DES13S2cmm: the first superluminous supernova from the Dark Energy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449 (2), 1215-1227. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv174).

Ofek, Eran O., Arcavi, Iair, Tal, David, Sullivan, Mark, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Nugent, Peter E., Ben-Ami, Sagi, Bersier, David, Cao, Yi, Cenko, S. Bradley, De Cia, Annalisa, Filippenko, Alexei V., Fransson, Claes, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Laher, Russ, Surace, Jason, Quimby, Robert and Yaron, Ofer (2014) Interaction-powered supernovae: rise-time versus peak-luminosity correlation and the shock-breakout velocity. The Astrophysical Journal, 788 (154), 1-6. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/788/2/154).

Mazzali, P.A., Sullivan, M., Filippenko, A.V., Garnavich, P.M., Clubb, K.I., Maguire, K., Pan, Y.-C., Shappee, B., Silverman, J.M., Benetti, S., Hachinger, S., Nomoto, K. and Pian, E. (2015) Nebular spectra and abundance tomography of the Type Ia supernova SN 2011fe: a normal SN Ia with a stable Fe core. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 450 (3), 2631-2643. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv761).

Pan, Y.-C., Sullivan, M., Maguire, K., Gal-Yam, A., Hook, I. M., Howell, D. A., Nugent, P. E. and Mazzali, P. A. (2015) Type Ia supernova spectral features in the context of their host galaxy properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446 (1), 354-368. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2121).

Graham, M.L., Nugent, P.E., Sullivan, M., Filippenko, A.V., Cenko, S.B., Silverman, J.M., Clubb, K.I. and Zheng, W. (2015) Constraining the progenitor companion of the nearby Type Ia SN 2011fe with a nebular spectrum at +981 d. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454 (2), 1948-1957. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1888).

Maguire, K., Taubenberger, S., Sullivan, M. and Mazzali, P.A. (2016) Searching for swept-up hydrogen and helium in the late-time spectra of 11 nearby Type Ia supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457 (3), 3254-3265. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2991).

Baron, E., Hoeflich, P., Friesen, Brian, Sullivan, M., Hsiao, E., Ellis, R.S., Gal-Yam, A., Howell, D.A., Nugent, P.E., Dominguez, I., Krisciunas, K., Phillips, M.M., Suntzeff, N., Wang, L. and Thomas, R.C. (2015) Spectral models for early time SN 2011fe observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454 (3), 2549-2556. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1951).

Scovacricchi, D., Nichol, R.C., Bacon, D., Sullivan, M. and Prajs, S. (2016) Cosmology with superluminous supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456 (2), 1700-1707. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2752).

Smith, M., Sullivan, M., D'andrea, C.B., Castander, F.J., Casas, R., Prajs, S., Papadopoulos, A., Nichol, R.C., Karpenka, N.V., Bernard, S.R., Brown, P., Cartier, R., Cooke, J., Curtin, C., Davis, T.M., Finley, D.A., Foley, R.J., Gal-Yam, A., Goldstein, D.A., González-Gaitán, S., Gupta, R.R., Howell, D.A., Inserra, C., Kessler, R., Lidman, C., Marriner, J., Nugent, P., Pritchard, T.A., Sako, M., Smartt, S., Smith, R.C., Spinka, H., Thomas, R.C., Wolf, R.C., Zenteno, A., Abbott, T.M.C., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Crocce, M., Cunha, C.E., Costa, L.N. da, Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Estrada, J., Evrard, A.E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., James, D.J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Li, T.S., Marshall, J.L., Martini, P., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Nord, B., Ogando, R., Plazas, A.A., Reil, K., Romer, A.K., Roodman, A., Rykoff, E.S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Walker, A.R. and Wester, W. (2016) DES14X3taz: a type I superluminous supernova showing a luminous, rapidly cooling initial pre-peak bump. The Astrophysical Journal, 818 (L8), 1-7. (doi:10.3847/2041-8205/818/1/L8).

Strotjohann, Nora L., Ofek, Eran O., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Sullivan, Mark, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Shaviv, Nir J., Fremling, Christoffer, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nugent, Peter E., Cao, Yi, Arcavi, Iair, Sollerman, Jesper, Filippenko, Alexei V., Yaron, Ofer, Laher, Russ and Surace, Jason (2015) Search for precursor eruptions among type IIb supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal, 811 (117), 1-16. (doi:10.1088/0004-637X/811/2/117).

Tartaglia, L., Pastorello, A., Sullivan, M., Baltay, C., Rabinowitz, D., Nugent, P., Drake, A.J., Djorgovski, S.G., Gal-Yam, A., Fabrika, S., Barsukova, E.A., Goranskij, V.P., Valeev, A.F., Fatkhullin, T., Schulze, S., Mehner, A., Bauer, F.E., Taubenberger, S., Nordin, J., Valenti, S., Howell, D.A., Benetti, S., Cappellaro, E., Fasano, G., Elias-Rosa, N., Barbieri, M., Bettoni, D., Harutyunyan, A., Kangas, T., Kankare, E., Martin, J.C., Mattila, S., Morales-Garoffolo, A, Ochner, P., Rebbapragada, Umaa D., Terreran, G., Tomasella, L., Turatto, M., Verroi, E. and Woźniak, P.R. (2016) Interacting supernovae and supernova impostors. LSQ13zm: an outburst heralds the death of a massive star. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459 (1), 1039-1059. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stw675).

Mazzali, P.A., Sullivan, M., Pian, E., Greiner, J. and Kann, D.A. (2016) Spectrum formation in superluminous supernovae (Type I). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458 (4), 3455-3465. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stw512).

Childress, Michael J., Hillier, D. John, Seitenzahl, Ivo, Sullivan, Mark, Maguire, Kate, Taubenberger, Stefan, Scalzo, Richard, Ruiter, Ashley, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Camacho, Yssavo, Castillo, Jayden, Elias-Rosa, Nancy, Fraser, Morgan, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Graham, Melissa, Howell, D. Andrew, Inserra, Cosimo, Jha, Saurabh W., Kumar, Sahana, Mazzali, Paolo A., McCully, Curtis, Morales-Garoffolo, Antonia, Pandya, Viraj, Polshaw, Joe, Schmidt, Brian, Smartt, Stephen, Smith, Ken W., Sollerman, Jesper, Spyromilio, Jason, Tucker, Brad, Valenti, Stefano, Walton, Nicholas, Wolf, Christian, Yaron, Ofer, Young, D. R., Yuan, Fang and Zhang, Bonnie (2015) Measuring nickel masses in Type Ia supernovae using cobalt emission in nebular phase spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454 (4), 3816-3842. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv2173).

Yuan, Fang, Jerkstrand, A., Valenti, S., Sollerman, J., Seitenzahl, I.R., Pastorello, A., Schulze, S., Chen, T.-W., Childress, Michael, Fraser, M., Fremling, C., Kotak, R., Ruiter, A.J., Schmidt, B.P., Smartt, S.J., Taddia, F., Terreran, G., Tucker, B.E., Barbarino, C., Benetti, S., Elias-Rosa, N., Gal-Yam, A., Howell, D.A., Inserra, C., Kankare, E., Lee, M.Y., Li, K.L., Maguire, K., Margheim, S., Mehner, A., Ochner, P., Sullivan, Mark, Tomasella, L. and Young, D.R. (2016) 450 d of Type II SN 2013ej in optical and near-infrared. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461 (2), 2003-2018. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stw1419).

Hoenig, S.F., Watson, D., Kishimoto, M., Gandhi, P., Goad, M., Horne, K., Shankar, F., Banerji, M., Boulderstone, B., Jarvis, M., Smith, M. and Sullivan, M. (2017) Cosmology with AGN dust time lags–simulating the new VEILS survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464 (2), 1693-1703. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2484).

Cartier Ugarte, R., Sullivan, M., Firth, R., Pignata, G., Mazzali, P., Maguire, K., Childress, M., Arcavi, I., Ashall, C., Bassett, B., Crawford, S.M., Frohmaier, C., Galbany, L., Gal-Yam, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D.A., Inserra, C., Johansson, J., Kasai, E.K., McCully, C., Prajs, S., Prentice, S., Schulze, S., Smartt, S.J., Smith, K.W., Smith, M., Valenti, S. and Young, D.R. (2017) Early observations of the nearby Type Ia supernova SN 2015F. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464 (4), 4476-4494. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2678).

Prajs, S., Sullivan, M., Smith, M., Levan, A., Karpenka, N.V., Edwards, T.D.P., Walker, C.R., Wolf, W.M., Balland, C., Carlberg, R., Howell, D.A., Lidman, C., Pain, R., Pritchet, C. and Ruhlmann-Kleider, V. (2017) The volumetric rate of superluminous supernovae at z ~ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464 (3), 3568-3579. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stw1942).

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Dimitriadis, G., Sullivan, M., Kerzendorf, W., Ruiter, A. J., Seitenzahl, I. R., Taubenberger, S., Doran, G. B., Gal-Yam, A., Laher, R. R., Maguire, K., Nugent, P., Ofek, E. O. and Surace, J. (2017) The late-time light curve of the Type Ia supernova SN 2011fe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 468 (4), 3798-3812. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx683).

Frohmaier, Christopher, Sullivan, Mark, Nugent, P.E., Goldstein, D.A. and DeRose, J. (2017) Real-time recovery efficiencies and performance of the Palomar Transient Factory's transient discovery pipeline. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 230 (1). (doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aa6d70).

Hachinger, S., Ropke, F.K, Mazzali, P.A., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Maguire, K. and Sullivan, M. (2017) Type Ia supernovae with and without blueshifted narrow Na I D lines - how different is their structure? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 (1), 491-506. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1578).

Yaron, O., Perley, D.A., Gal-Yam, A., Groh, J.H., Horesh, A., Ofek, E.O., Kulkarni, S.R., Sollerman, J., Fransson, C., Rubin, A., Szabo, P., Sapir, N., Taddia, F., Cenko, S.B., Valenti, S., Arcavi, I., Howell, D.A., Kasliwal, M.M., Vreeswijk, P.M., Khazov, D., Fox, O.D., Cao, Y., Gnat, O., Kelly, P.L., Nugent, P.E., Filippenko, A.V., Laher, R.R., Wozniak, P.R., Lee, W.H., Rebbapragada, U.D., Maguire, K., Sullivan, M. and Soumagnac, M.T. (2017) Confined dense circumstellar material surrounding a regular type II supernova. Nature Physics, 13 (5), 510-517. (doi:10.1038/nphys4025).

Goobar, A., Amanullah, R., Kulkarni, S.R., Nugent, P.E., Johansson, J., Steidel, C., Law, D., Mörtsell, E., Quimby, R., Blagorodnova, N., Brandeker, A., Cao, Y., Cooray, A., Ferretti, R., Fremling, C., Hangard, L., Kasliwal, M., Kupfer, T., Lunnan, R., Masci, F., Miller, A.A., Nayyeri, H., Neill, J.D., Ofek, E.O., Papadogiannakis, S., Petrushevska, T., Ravi, V., Sollerman, J., Sullivan, M., Taddia, F., Walters, R., Wilson, D., Yan, L. and Yaron, O. (2017) iPTF16geu: A multiply imaged, gravitationally lensed type Ia supernova. Science, 356 (6335), 291-295. (doi:10.1126/science.aal2729).

Terreran, G., Pumo, M.L., Chen, T.-W., Moriya, T. J., Taddia, F. and Sullivan, M. (2017) Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm. Nature Astronomy. (doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0228-8).

Karamehmetoglu, E., Taddia, F., Sollerman, J., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Schmidl, S., Fraser, M., Fremling, C., Greiner, J., Inserra, C., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Maguire, K., Smartt, S., Sullivan, M. and Young, D.R. (2017) OGLE-2014-SN-131: a long-rising Type Ibn supernova from a massive progenitor. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 602, 1-14, [A93]. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629619).

Chen, T.-W., Nicholl, M., Smartt, S.J., Mazzali, P.A., Yates, R.M., Moriya, T.J., Inserra, C., Langer, N., Krühler, T., Pan, Y.-C., Kotak, R., Galbany, L., Schady, P., Wiseman, P., Greiner, J., Schulze, S., Man, A.W.S., Jerkstrand, A., Dennefeld, M., Baltay, C., Bolmer, J., Kankare, E., Knust, F., Maguire, K., Rabinowitz, D., Rostami, S. and Sullivan, M. (2017) The evolution of superluminous supernova LSQ14mo and its interacting host galaxy system. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 602, 1-22, [A9]. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201630163).

de Jaeger, T., González-Gaitán, S., Hamuy, M., Galbany, L., Anderson, J. P., Phillips, M.M., Stritzinger, M.D., Carlberg, R.G., Sullivan, M., Gutiérrez, C.P., Hook, I. M., Howell, D. Andrew, Hsiao, E.Y., Kuncarayakti, H., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Folatelli, G., Pritchet, C. and Basa, S. (2017) A Type II supernova Hubble diagram from the CSP-I, SDSS-II, and SNLS surveys. The Astrophysical Journal, 835 (2), [166]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/166).

Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Arcavi, Iair, Valenti, Stefano, McCully, Curtis, Howell, D. Andrew, Johansson, Joel, Sollerman, Jesper, Pastorello, Andrea, Benetti, Stefano, Cao, Yi, Cenko, S. Bradley, Clubb, Kelsey I., Corsi, Alessandra, Duggan, Gina, Elias-Rosa, Nancy, Filippenko, Alexei V., Fox, Ori D., Fremling, Christoffer, Horesh, Assaf, Karamehmetoglu, Emir, Kasliwal, Mansi, Marion, G.H., Ofek, Eran, Sand, David, Taddia, Francesco, Zheng, WeiKang, Fraser, Morgan, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Inserra, Cosimo, Laher, Russ, Masci, Frank, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Smartt, Stephen, Smith, Ken W., Sullivan, Mark, Surace, Jason and Woźniak, Przemek (2017) Type Ibn supernovae show photometric homogeneity and spectral diversity at maximum light. The Astrophysical Journal, 836 (2), 1-22. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/836/2/158).

Vreeswijk, Paul M., Leloudas, Giorgos, Gal-Yam, Avishay, De Cia, Annalisa, Perley, Daniel A., Quimby, Robert M., Waldman, Roni, Sullivan, Mark, Yan, Lin, Ofek, Eran O., Fremling, Christoffer, Taddia, Francesco, Sollerman, Jesper, Valenti, Stefano, Arcavi, Iair, Howell, D. Andrew, Filippenko, Alexei V., Cenko, S. Bradley, Yaron, Ofer, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Cao, Yi, Ben-Ami, Sagi, Horesh, Assaf, Rubin, Adam, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Nugent, Peter E., Laher, Russ, Rebbapragada, Umaa D., Woźniak, Przemysław and Kulkarni, Shrinivas R. (2017) On the early-time excess emission in hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal, 835 (1), 1-19. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/835/1/58).

Tartaglia, L., Sand, D. J., Smartt, S. J., Fraser, M., McCully, C., Anderson, J. P., Arcavi, I., Galbany, L., Gal-Yam, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Inserra, C., Jha, S. W., Lundqvist, P., Maguire, K., Smith, M., Stritzinger, M. and Sullivan, M. (2017) The Progenitor and Early Evolution of the Type IIb SN 2016gkg. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 836 (1). (doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa5c7f).

Sullivan, M. , ANTARES Collaboration and H.E.S.S. Collaboration (2017) A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469 (4), 4465-4482. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1098).

Arcavi, Iair, Howell, D. Andrew, Kasen, Daniel, Bildsten, Lars, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, McCully, Curtis, Wong, Zheng Chuen, Katz, Sarah Rebekah, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Sollerman, Jesper, Taddia, Francesco, Leloudas, Giorgos, Fremling, Christoffer, Nugent, Peter E., Horesh, Assaf, Mooley, K., Rumsey, Clare, Cenko, S. Bradley, Graham, Melissa L., Perley, Daniel A., Nakar, Ehud, Shaviv, Nir J., Bromberg, Omer, Shen, Ken J., Ofek, Eran O., Cao, Yi, Wang, Xiaofeng, Huang, Fang, Rui, Liming, Zhang, Tianmeng, Li, Wenxiong, Li, Zhitong, Zhang, Jujia, Valenti, Stefano, Guevel, David, Shappee, Benjamin, Kochanek, Christopher S., Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Filippenko, Alexei V., Fender, Rob, Nyholm, Anders, Yaron, Ofer, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Sullivan, Mark, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Walters, Richard S., Lunnan, Ragnhild, Khazov, D., Andreoni, Igor, Laher, Russ R., Konidaris, Nick, Woźniak, Przemek and Bue, Brian (2017) Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star. Nature, 210-213. (doi:10.1038/nature24030).

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Hernandez Santisteban, J.V., Knigge, C., Pretorius, M.L., Sullivan, M. and Warner, B. (2018) The space density of post-period minimum cataclysmic variables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473 (3), 3241–3250. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2296).

Barbarino, C., Botticella, M.T. and Dall’Ora, M. , et al. (2017) LSQ14efd: observations of the cooling of a shock break-out event in a type Ic Supernova. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471 (2), 2463-2480. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1709).

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Inserra, Cosimo and Angus, Charlotte , DES Collaboration (2017) Studying the ultraviolet spectrum of the first spectroscopically confirmed supernova at redshift two. The Astrophysical Journal. (In Press)

Inserra, Cosimo, Prajs, Szymon, Gutierrez Avendano, Claudia Patrici, Angus, Charlotte, Smith, Mathew and Sullivan, Mark (2018) A statistical approach to identify superluminous supernovae and probe their diversity. The Astrophysical Journal, 854 (175), 1-12. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaaaaa).

Frohmaier, Christopher, Sullivan, Mark, Maguire, Kate and Nugent, Peter E. (2018) The volumetric rate of calcium-rich transients in the local universe. The Astrophysical Journal, 858 (50). (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aabc0b).

Leibundgut, B. and Sullivan, M. (2018) Type Ia Supernova cosmology. Space Science Reviews, 214 (2), [57]. (doi:10.1007/s11214-018-0491-8).

Inserra, C., Nichol, R.C., Scovacricchi, D., Amiaux, J., Brescia, M., Burigana, C., Cappellaro, E., Carvalho, C.S., Cavuoti, S., Conforti, V., Cuillandre, J.C., Da Silva, A., De Rosa, A., Della Valle, M., Dinis, J., Franceschi, E., Hook, I., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kitching, T., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lloro, I., Longo, G., Maiorano, E., Maris, M., Rhodes, J.D., Scaramella, R., Smartt, S.J., Sullivan, M., Tao, C., Toledo-Moreo, R., Tereno, I., Trifoglio, M. and Valenziano, L. (2018) Euclid: Superluminous supernovae in the deep survey? Astronomy and Astrophysics, 609, 1-12, [A83]. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731758).

Tartaglia, L., Sand, D.J., Valenti, S., Wyatt, S., Anderson, J.P., Arcavi, I., Ashall, C., Botticella, M.T., Cartier, R., Chen, T.W., Cikota, A., Coulter, D., Valle, M. Della, Foley, R.J., Gal-Yam, A., Galbany, L., Gall, C., Haislip, J.B., Harmanen, J., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D.A., Hsiao, E.Y., Inserra, C., Jha, S.W., Kankare, E., Kilpatrick, C.D., Kouprianov, V.V., Kuncarayakti, H., Maccarone, T.J., Maguire, K., Mattila, S., Mazzali, P.A., McCully, C., Melandri, A., Morrell, N., Phillips, M.M., Pignata, G., Piro, A.L., Prentice, S., Reichart, D.E., Rojas-Bravo, C., Smartt, S.J., Smith, K.W., Sollerman, J., Stritzinger, M.D., Sullivan, M., Taddia, F. and Young, D.R. (2018) The early detection and follow-up of the highly obscured Type II Supernova 2016ija/DLT16am. Astrophysical Journal, 853 (1), [62]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa014).

Anderson, J.P., Dessart, L., Gutierrez, C.P., Krühler, T., Galbany, L., Jerkstrand, A., Smartt, S.J., Contreras, C., Morrell, N., Phillips, M.M., Stritzinger, M. D., Hsiao, E.Y., Gonzalez-Gaitan, S., Agliozzo, C., Castellon, S., Chambers, K.C., Chen, T.W., Flewelling, H., Gonzalez, C., Hosseinzadeh, G., Huber, M., Fraser, M., Inserra, C., Kankare, E., Mattila, S., Magnier, E.A., Maguire, K., Lowe, T.B., Sollerman, J., Sullivan, M., Young, D.R. and Valenti, S. (2018) The lowest metallicity type II supernova from the highest mass red-supergiant progenitor. Nature Astronomy. (doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0458-4).

Kim, Young Lo, Smith, Mathew, Sullivan, Mark and Lee, Young Wook (2018) Environmental dependence of type Ia supernova luminosities from a sample without a local-global difference in host star formation. Astrophysical Journal, 854 (1), [24]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa127).

Quimby, Robert M., Cia, Annalisa De, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Leloudas, Giorgos, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Perley, Daniel A., Vreeswijk, Paul M., Yan, Lin, Bloom, Joshua S., Cenko, S. Bradley, Cooke, Jeff, Ellis, Richard, Filippenko, Alexei V., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kleiser, Io K.W., Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Matheson, Thomas, Nugent, Peter E., Pan, Yen Chen, Silverman, Jeffrey M., Sternberg, Assaf, Sullivan, Mark and Yaron, Ofer (2018) Spectra of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory. Astrophysical Journal, 855 (1), [2]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaac2f).

Maguire, K., Sim, S. A., Shingles, L., Spyromilio, J., Jerkstrand, A., Sullivan, M., Chen, T. W., Cartier, R., Dimitriadis, G., Frohmaier, C., Galbany, L., Gutiérrez, C. P., Hosseinzadeh, G., A. Howell, D., Inserra, C., Rudy, R. and Sollerman, J. (2018) Using late-time optical and near-infrared spectra to constrain Type Ia supernova explosion properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477 (3), 3567-3582. (doi:10.1093/mnras/sty820).

Gutiérrez, C. P., Anderson, J. P., Sullivan, M., Dessart, L., González-Gaitan, S., Galbany, L., Dimitriadis, G., Arcavi, I., Bufano, F., Chen, T. W., Dennefeld, M., Gromadzki, M., Haislip, J. B., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. A., Inserra, C., Kankare, E., Leloudas, G., Maguire, K., McCully, C., Morrell, N., Olivares, E. F., Pignata, G., Reichart, D. E., Reynolds, T., Smartt, S. J., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F., Takáts, K., Terreran, G., Valenti, S. and Young, D. R. (2018) Type II supernovae in low-luminosity host galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479 (3), 3232-3253. (doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1581).

De Cia, Annalisa, Gal-Yam, A., Rubin, A., Leloudas, G., Vreeswijk, P., Perley, D. A., Quimby, R., Yan, Lin, Sullivan, M., Flörs, A., Sollerman, J., Bersier, D., Cenko, S. B., Gal-Yam, M., Maguire, K., Ofek, E. O., Prentice, S., Schulze, S., Spyromilio, J., Valenti, S., Arcavi, I., Corsi, A., Howell, D. A., Mazzali, P., Kasliwal, M. M., Taddia, F. and Yaron, O. (2018) Light curves of hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae from the palomar transient factory. Astrophysical Journal, 860 (2), [100]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aab9b6).

Balland, C., Cellier-Holzem, F., Lidman, C., Astier, P., Betoule, M., Carlberg, R.G., Conley, A., Ellis, R.S., Guy, J., Hardin, D., Hook, I.M., Howell, D.A., Pain, R., Pritchet, C.J., Regnault, N., Sullivan, M., Arsenijevic, V., Baumont, S., El-Hage, P., Fabbro, S., Fouchez, D., Mitra, A., Möller, A., Mourão, A.M., Neveu, J., Roman, M. and Ruhlmann-Kleider, V. (2018) The ESO's VLT type Ia supernova spectral set of the final two years of SNLS. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 614, [A134]. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731924).

Anderson, J.P., Pessi, P.J., Dessart, L., Inserra, C., Hiramatsu, D., Taggart, K., Smartt, S.J., Leloudas, G., Chen, T.-W., Moller, A., Roy, R., Schulze, S., Perley, D.A., Selsing, J., Prentice, S.J., Gal‐Yam, A., Angus, C.R., Arcavi, I., Ashall, C., Bulla, M., Bray, C., Burke, J., Callis, E., Cartier, R., Chang, S-W., Chambers, K., Clark, P., Denneau, L., Dennefeld, M., Flewelling, H., Fraser, M., Galbany, L., Gromadzki, M., Gutierrez, C.P., Heinze, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D.A., Hsiao, E.Y., Kankare, E., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Magnier, E.A., Maguire, K., Mazzali, P., McBrien, O., McCully, C., Morrell, N., Lowe, T.B., Onken, C.A., Onori, F., Phillips, M.M., Rest, A., Ridden-Harper, R., Ruiter, A.J., Sand, D. J., Smith, K.W., Smith, M., Stalder, B., Stritzinger, M.D., Sullivan, M., Tonry, J.L., Tucker, B.E., Valenti, S., Wainscoat, R., Waters, C.Z., Wolf, C. and Young, D. (2018) A nearby superluminous supernova with a long pre-maximum ‘plateau’ and strong Cii features. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 620, 1-17. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833725).

Roman, M., Hardin, D., Betoule, M., Astier, P., Balland, C., Ellis, R. S., Fabbro, S., Guy, J., Hook, I., Howell, D. A., Lidman, C., Mitra, A., Möller, A., Mourão, A. M., Neveu, J., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pritchet, C. J., Regnault, N., Ruhlmann-Kleider, V., Saunders, C. and Sullivan, M. (2018) Dependence of Type Ia supernova luminosities on their local environment. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 615, [A68]. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201731425).

De, K., Kasliwal, M. M., Ofek, E. O., Moriya, T. J., Burke, J., Cao, Y., Cenko, S. B., Doran, G. B., Duggan, G. E., Fender, R. P., Fransson, C., Gal-Yam, A., Horesh, A., Kulkarni, S. R., Laher, R. R., Lunnan, R., Manulis, I., Masci, F., Mazzali, P. A., Nugent, P. E., Perley, D. A., Petrushevska, T., Piro, A. L., Rumsey, C., Sollerman, J., Sullivan, M. and Taddia, F. (2018) A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova that likely formed a compact neutron star binary. Science, 362 (6411), 201-206. (doi:10.1126/science.aas8693).

Graham, M. L., Harris, C.E., Nugent, P. E., Maguire, K., Sullivan, M., Smith, M., Valenti, S., Goobar, A., Fox, O.D., Shen, Ken J., Kelly, P.L., McCully, C., Brink, Thomas G. and Filippenko, A.V. (2019) Delayed circumstellar interaction for Type Ia SN 2015cp revealed by an HST ultraviolet imaging survey. The Astrophysical Journal, 871. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaf41e).

DES Collaboration (2019) First cosmology results using type IA Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Effects of chromatic corrections to supernova photometry on measurements of cosmological parameters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485 (4), 5329-5344. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz619).

Frohmaier, C., Sullivan, M., Nugent, P.E., Dimitriadis, G., Bloom, J.S., Cenko, S.B., Kasliwal, M.M., Kulkarni, S.R., Maguire, K., Ofek, E. O., Poznanski, D., Quimby, R.M. and Smith, M. (2019) The volumetric rate of normal type Ia supernovae in the local universe discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486 (2), 2308–2320. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz807).

Bostroem, K. Azalee, Valenti, Stefano, Horesh, Assaf, Morozova, Viktoriya, Kuin, N. Paul M., Wyatt, Samuel, Jerkstrand, Anders, Sand, David J., Lundquist, Michael, Smith, Mathew, Sullivan, Mark, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Arcavi, Iair, Callis, Emma, Cartier, Régis, Gal-yam, Avishay, Galbany, Lluís, Gutiérrez, Claudia, Howell, D Andrew, Inserra, Cosimo, Kankare, Erkki, López, Kristhell Marisol, Mccully, Curtis, Pignata, Giuliano, Piro, Anthony L., Rodríguez, Ósmar, Smartt, Stephen J., Smith, Kenneth W., Yaron, Ofer and Young, David R. (2019) Signatures of circumstellar interaction in the Type IIL Supernova ASASSN-15oz. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz570).

Smith, Mathew, Kessler, R., Brout, D. and D’Andrea, C.B. , DES Collaboration (2019) First cosmology results using Type Ia supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: simulations to correct supernova distance biases. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485 (1), 1171-1187. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz463).

Prentice, S.J., Ashall, C. and James, P.A. , et al. (2018) Investigating the properties of stripped-envelope supernovae; what are the implications for their progenitors? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485, 1559-1578. (doi:10.1093/mnras/sty3399). (In Press)

Smith, Mathew, Sullivan, Mark and Childress, Michael , The DES Collaboration (2019) First cosmology results using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: analysis, systematic uncertainties, and validation. The Astrophysical Journal, 874 (2), 1-30, [150]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab08a0).

Abbott, T.M.C., Allam, S. and Andersen, P. , The DES Collaboration (2019) First cosmology results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on cosmological parameters. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 872 (2), [L30]. (doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa).

Sullivan, Mark, Smith, Mathew and Childress, Michael , The DES Collaboration (2019) First cosmology results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric pipeline and light-curve data release. The Astrophysical Journal, 874, [106]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab06c1).

Macaulay, E, Smith, Mathew, Sullivan, Mark and Wiseman, Philip , The DES Collaboration (2019) First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: measurement of the Hubble constant. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 486 (2), 2184-2196. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz978).

Vincenzi, M., Sullivan, M., Firth, R.E., Gutierrez, C.P., Frohmaier, C. and Smith, M. (2019) Spectrophotometric templates for core collapse supernovae and their application in simulations of time-domain surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2448).

Jha, Saurabh W., Maguire, Kate and Sullivan, Mark (2019) Observational properties of thermonuclear supernovae. Nature Astronomy, 3 (8), 706-716. (doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0858-0).

Frohmaier, C, Angus, C R, Vincenzi, M, Sullivan, M, Smith, M, Nugent, P E, Cenko, S B, Gal-Yam, A, Kulkarni, S R, Law, N M and Quimby, R M (2021) From core collapse to superluminous: the rates of massive stellar explosions from the Palomar Transient Factory. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 500 (4), 5142-5158. (doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3607).

Hodgkin, S. T., Harrison, D. L., Breedt, E., Wevers, T., Rixon, G., Delgado, A., Yoldas, A., Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Z., Wyrzykowski, Ł., Leeuwen, M. van, Blagorodnova, N., Campbell, H., Eappachen, D., Fraser, M., Ihanec, N., Koposov, S. E., Kruszyńska, K., Marton, G., Rybicki, K. A., Brown, A. G. A., Burgess, P. W., Busso, G., Cowell, S., Angeli, F. De, Diener, C., Evans, D. W., Gilmore, G., Holland, G., Jonker, P. G., Leeuwen, F. van, Mignard, F., Osborne, P. J., Portell, J., Prusti, T., Richards, P. J., Riello, M., Seabroke, G. M., Walton, N. A., Ábrahám, Péter, Altavilla, G., Baker, S. G., Bastian, U., O'Brien, P., Bruijne, J. de, Butterley, T., Carrasco, J. M., Castañeda, J., Clark, J. S., Clementini, G., Copperwheat, C. M., Cropper, M., Damljanovic, G., Davidson, M., Davis, C. J., Dennefeld, M., Dhillon, V. S., Dolding, C., Dominik, M., Esquej, P., Eyer, L., Fabricius, C., Fridman, M., Froebrich, D., Garralda, N., Gomboc, A., González-Vidal, J. J., Guerra, R., Hambly, N. C., Hardy, L. K., Holl, B., Hourihane, A., Japelj, J., Kann, D. A., Kiss, C., Knigge, C., Kolb, U., Komossa, S., Kóspál, Á., Kovács, G., Kun, M., Leto, G., Lewis, F., Littlefair, S. P., Mahabal, A. A., Mundell, C. G., Nagy, Z., Padeletti, D., Palaversa, L., Pigulski, A., Pretorius, M. L., Reeven, W. van, Ribeiro, V. A. R. M., Roelens, M., Rowell, N., Schartel, N., Scholz, A., Schwope, A., Sipőcz, B. M., Smartt, S. J., Smith, M. D., Serraller, I., Steeghs, D., Sullivan, M., Szabados, L., Szegedi-Elek, E., Tisserand, P., Tomasella, L., Velzen, S. van, Whitelock, P. A, Wilson, R. W. and Young, D. R. (2021) Gaia photometric science alerts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Sullivan, Mark, Carrick, Jonathan E., Hook, Isobel M., Swann, Elizabeth, Boone, Kyle, Frohmaier, C. and Kim, A.G. (2021) Optimizing a magnitude-limited spectroscopic training sample for photometric classification of supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508 (1), 1-18. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2343).

Schulze, Steve, Yaron, Ofer, Sollerman, Jesper, Leloudas, Giorgos, Gal, Amit, Wright, Angus H., Lunnan, Ragnhild, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Ofek, Eran O., Perley, Daniel A., Filippenko, Alexei V., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, Shri R., Nugent, Peter E., Quimby, Robert M., Sullivan, Mark, Linn Strothjohann, Nora, Arcavi, Iair, Ben-Ami, Sagi, Bianco, Federica, Bloom, Joshua S., De, Kishalay, Fraser, Morgan, Fremling, Christoffer U., Horesh, Assaf, Johansson, Joel, Kelly, Patrick L., Knezevic, Sladjana, Maguire, Kate, Nyholm, Anders, Semeli Papadogiannakis, 2, Petrushevska, Tanja, Rubin, Adam, Yan, Lin, Yang, Yi, Adams, Scott M., Bufano, Filomena, Clubb, Kelsey I., Foley, Ryan J., Green, Yoav, Harmanen, Jussi, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Hook, Isobel M., Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Howell, D. Andrew, Kong, Albert K. H., Kotak, Rubina, Matheson, Thomas, McCully, Curtis, Milisavljevic, Dan, Pan, Yen-Chen, Poznanski, Dovi, Shivvers, Isaac and van Velzen, Sjoert (2021) The Palomar Transient Factory Core-Collapse Supernova Host-Galaxy Sample. I. Host-Galaxy Distribution Functions and Environment-Dependence of CCSNe. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 255 (2), [29]. (doi:10.3847/1538-4365/abff5e).

Müller-Bravo, Tomás E., Sullivan, Mark, Smith, Mathew, Frohmaier, Chris, Gutiérrez, Claudia P., Wiseman, Philip and Zontou, Zoe (2021) PISCOLA: a data-driven transient light-curve fitter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stab3065).

Clark, Peter, Maguire, Kate, Bulla, Mattia, Galbany, Lluís, Sullivan, Mark, Anderson, Joseph P. and Smartt, Stephen J. (2021) Probing the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae using circumstellar material interaction signatures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 507. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stab2038).

Wiseman, P., Sullivan, M., Smith, M., Frohmaier, C., Vincenzi, M., Graur, O., Popovic, B., Armstrong, P., Brout, D., Davis, T. M., Galbany, L., Hinton, S. R., Kelsey, L., Kessler, R., Lidman, C., Möller, A., Nichol, R. C., Rose, B., Scolnic, D., Toy, M., Zontou, Z., Asorey, J., Carollo, D., Glazebrook, K., Lewis, G. F., Tucker, B. E., Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Everett, S., Ferrero, I., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D. J., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Maia, M. A. G., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Ogando, R. L. C., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Petravick, D., Pieres, A., Plazas Malagón, A. A., Romer, A. K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N., Walker, A. R. and Collaboration, DES (2021) Rates and delay times of Type Ia supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 506 (3), 3330–3348. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stab1943).

Galbany, L., Ashall, C., Höflich, P., González-Gaitán, S., Taubenberger, S., Stritzinger, M., Hsiao, E. Y., Mazzali, P., Baron, E., Blondin, S., Bose, S., Bulla, M., Burke, J. F., Burns, C. R., Cartier, R., Della Valle, M., Diamond, T. R., Gutiérrez, C. P., Harmanen, J., Hiramatsu, D., Holoien, T. W.-S., Hosseinzadeh, G., Howell, D. Andrew, Huang, Y., Inserra, C., de Jaeger, T., Jha, S. W., Kangas, T., Kromer, M., Lyman, J. D., Maguire, K., Marion, G. Howie, Milisavljevic, D., Prentice, S. J., Razza, A., Reynolds, T. M., Sand, D. J., Shappee, B. J., Shekhar, R., Smartt, S. J., Stassun, K. G., Sullivan, M., Valenti, S., Villanueva, S., Wang, X., Wheeler, J. Craig, Zhai, Q. and Zhang, J. (2019) Evidence for a Chandrasekhar-mass explosion in the Ca-strong 1991bg-like type Ia supernova 2016hnk. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 630. (doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201935537).

Clark, Peter, Maguire, Kate, Inserra, Cosimo, Prentice, Simon, Smartt, Stephen J., Contreras, Carlos, Hossenizadeh, Griffin, Hsiao, Eric Y., Kankare, Erkki, Kasliwal, Mansi, Nugent, Peter, Shahbandeh, Melissa, Baltay, Charles, Rabinowitz, David, Arcavi, Iair, Ashall, Chris, Burns, Christopher R., Callis, Emma, Chen, Ting-Wan, Diamond, Tiara, Fraser, Morgan, Howell, D. Andrew, Karamehmetoglu, Emir, Kotak, Rubina, Lyman, Joseph, Morrell, Nidia, Phillips, Mark, Pignata, Giuliano, Pursiainen, Miika, Sollerman, Jesper, Stritzinger, Maximilian, Sullivan, Mark and Young, David (2020) LSQ13ddu: a rapidly evolving stripped-envelope supernova with early circumstellar interaction signatures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492 (2), 2208-2228. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stz3598).

Müller-Bravo, Tomás E., Gutiérrez, Claudia P., Sullivan, Mark, Jerkstrand, Anders, Anderson, Joseph P., González-Gaitán, Santiago, Sollerman, Jesper, Arcavi, Iair, Burke, Jamison, Galbany, Lluís, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Gromadzki, Mariusz, Hiramatsu, Daichi, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Howell, D. Andrew, Inserra, Cosimo, Kankare, Erki, Kozyreva, Alexandra, McCully, Curtis, Nicholl, Matt, Smartt, Stephen, Valenti, Stefano and Young, Dave R. (2020) The low-luminosity Type II SN 2016aqf: a well-monitored spectral evolution of the Ni/Fe abundance ratio. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497 (1), 361-377. (doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1932).

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