KELT light curve of the M82 SN 2014J

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We report observations of the bright M82 supernova 2014J serendipitously obtained with the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT). The supernova (SN) was observed at high cadence for over 100 days, from pre-explosion, to early rise and peak times, through the secondary bump. The high cadence KELT data with high signal-to-noise ratio is completely unique for SN 2014J and for any other SNIa, with the exception of the (yet) unpublished Kepler data. Here, we report determinations of the SN explosion time and peak time. We also report measures of the "smoothness" of the light curve on timescales of minutes/hours never before probed, and we use this to place limits on energy produced from short-lived isotopes or inhomogeneities in the explosion or the circumstellar medium. From the non-observation of significant perturbations of the light curves, we derive a 3{sigma} upper limit corresponding to 8.7x10^36^erg/s for any such extra sources of luminosity at optical wavelengths.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.17990105
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/799/105
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Provenance
Creator Siverd R.J.; Goobar A.; Stassun K.G.; Pepper J.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2015
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy