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author Rehemtulla, Nabeel
Jacobson-Galán, W. V.
Singh, Avinash
Miller, Adam A.
Kilpatrick, Charles D.
Hinds, K-Ryan
Liu, Chang
Schulze, Steve
Sollerman, Jesper
Laz, Theophile Jegou du
Ahumada, Tomás
Auchettl, Katie
Brennan, S. J.
Coughlin, Michael W.
Fremling, Christoffer
Gangopadhyay, Anjasha
Perley, Daniel A.
Prusinski, Nikolaus Z.
Purdum, Josiah
Qin, Yu-Jing
Romagnoli, Sara
Shi, Jennifer
Wise, Jacob L.
Chen, Tracy X.
Groom, Steven L.
Jones, David O.
Kasliwal, Mansi M.
Smith, Roger
Sravan, Niharika
Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
author_facet Rehemtulla, Nabeel
Jacobson-Galán, W. V.
Singh, Avinash
Miller, Adam A.
Kilpatrick, Charles D.
Hinds, K-Ryan
Liu, Chang
Schulze, Steve
Sollerman, Jesper
Laz, Theophile Jegou du
Ahumada, Tomás
Auchettl, Katie
Brennan, S. J.
Coughlin, Michael W.
Fremling, Christoffer
Gangopadhyay, Anjasha
Perley, Daniel A.
Prusinski, Nikolaus Z.
Purdum, Josiah
Qin, Yu-Jing
Romagnoli, Sara
Shi, Jennifer
Wise, Jacob L.
Chen, Tracy X.
Groom, Steven L.
Jones, David O.
Kasliwal, Mansi M.
Smith, Roger
Sravan, Niharika
Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
contents We present observations of the Type IIP supernova (SN) 2024jlf, including spectroscopy beginning just 0.7 days ($\sim$17 hours) after first light. Rapid follow-up was enabled by the new $\texttt{BTSbot-nearby}$ program, which involves autonomously triggering target-of-opportunity requests for new transients in Zwicky Transient Facility data that are coincident with nearby ($D<60$ Mpc) galaxies and identified by the $\texttt{BTSbot}$ machine learning model. Early photometry and non-detections shortly prior to first light show that SN 2024jlf initially brightened by $>$4 mag/day, quicker than $\sim$90% of Type II SNe. Early spectra reveal weak flash ionization features: narrow, short-lived ($1.3 < τ~\mathrm{[d]} < 1.8$) emission lines of H$α$, He II, and C IV. Assuming a wind velocity of $v_w=50$ km s$^{-1}$, these properties indicate that the red supergiant progenitor exhibited enhanced mass-loss in the last year before explosion. We constrain the mass-loss rate to $10^{-4} < \dot{M}~\mathrm{[M_\odot~yr^{-1}]} < 10^{-3}$ by matching observations to model grids from two independent radiative hydrodynamics codes. $\texttt{BTSbot-nearby}$ automation minimizes spectroscopic follow-up latency, enabling the observation of ephemeral early-time phenomena exhibited by transients.
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spellingShingle The BTSbot-nearby discovery of SN 2024jlf: rapid, autonomous follow-up probes interaction in an 18.5 Mpc Type IIP supernova
Rehemtulla, Nabeel
Jacobson-Galán, W. V.
Singh, Avinash
Miller, Adam A.
Kilpatrick, Charles D.
Hinds, K-Ryan
Liu, Chang
Schulze, Steve
Sollerman, Jesper
Laz, Theophile Jegou du
Ahumada, Tomás
Auchettl, Katie
Brennan, S. J.
Coughlin, Michael W.
Fremling, Christoffer
Gangopadhyay, Anjasha
Perley, Daniel A.
Prusinski, Nikolaus Z.
Purdum, Josiah
Qin, Yu-Jing
Romagnoli, Sara
Shi, Jennifer
Wise, Jacob L.
Chen, Tracy X.
Groom, Steven L.
Jones, David O.
Kasliwal, Mansi M.
Smith, Roger
Sravan, Niharika
Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
We present observations of the Type IIP supernova (SN) 2024jlf, including spectroscopy beginning just 0.7 days ($\sim$17 hours) after first light. Rapid follow-up was enabled by the new $\texttt{BTSbot-nearby}$ program, which involves autonomously triggering target-of-opportunity requests for new transients in Zwicky Transient Facility data that are coincident with nearby ($D<60$ Mpc) galaxies and identified by the $\texttt{BTSbot}$ machine learning model. Early photometry and non-detections shortly prior to first light show that SN 2024jlf initially brightened by $>$4 mag/day, quicker than $\sim$90% of Type II SNe. Early spectra reveal weak flash ionization features: narrow, short-lived ($1.3 < τ~\mathrm{[d]} < 1.8$) emission lines of H$α$, He II, and C IV. Assuming a wind velocity of $v_w=50$ km s$^{-1}$, these properties indicate that the red supergiant progenitor exhibited enhanced mass-loss in the last year before explosion. We constrain the mass-loss rate to $10^{-4} < \dot{M}~\mathrm{[M_\odot~yr^{-1}]} < 10^{-3}$ by matching observations to model grids from two independent radiative hydrodynamics codes. $\texttt{BTSbot-nearby}$ automation minimizes spectroscopic follow-up latency, enabling the observation of ephemeral early-time phenomena exhibited by transients.
title The BTSbot-nearby discovery of SN 2024jlf: rapid, autonomous follow-up probes interaction in an 18.5 Mpc Type IIP supernova
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18686