Not So Heavy Metal I: Low Metallicity Enhances the Rate of high-redshift Superluminous Supernovae

arXiv:2609.38299 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Metallicity — 100× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 36× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s
• The Environments of Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients: Evidence for a Compact Object and Wolf-Rayet Star Merger Origin
• Multiwavelength Analysis of Six Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

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