SN 2022xus: bridging the gap between Type IIP and IIL supernovae

arXiv:2607.25323 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Monalisa Dubey, Kuntal Misra, Naveen Dukiya, Kumar Pranshu, Raya Dastidar, K. Azalee Bostroem, Yize Dong, Joseph R. Farah, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Emily Hoang, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Megan Newsome, Craig Pellegrino, Aravind Pazhayath Ravi, Nicolas Meza Retamal, Ajay Kumar Singh, Giacomo Terreran, Stefano Valenti

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 14 pages, 14 figures, 9 tables

Code: https://github.com/LCOGT/lcogtsnpipe

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Elias — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Las Cumbres Observatory — 3× in this paper
• Anti-correlation — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope — 2× in this paper
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 2× in this paper
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Department of Science and Technology — 1× in this paper
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• National Science Foundation — 1× in this paper
• Red Super Giant — 1× in this paper
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Low-Luminosity Type IIP Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe. III: Hunting for electron-capture supernovae using nebular spectroscopy
• Pulsations change the structures of massive stars before explosion: interpreting SN 2023ixf and SN 2024ggi
• Real-time processing of the imaging data from the network of Las Cumbres Observatory Telescopes using BANZAI

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