Three-dimensional spectral modelling of astrophysical transients : unravelling the nucleosynthetic content of supernovae and kilonovae

Project Information

SUPERSPEC

Grant agreement ID: 803189

DOI

10.3030/803189

Project closed

EC signature date 18 December 2018

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

A precursor plateau and pre-maximum [O <scp>ii</scp>] emission in the superluminous SN2019szu: a pulsational pair-instability candidate

Author(s): Aysha Aamer, Matt Nicholl, Anders Jerkstrand, Sebastian Gomez, Samantha R Oates, Stephen J Smartt, Shubham Srivastav, Giorgos Leloudas, Joseph P Anderson, Edo Berger, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth Chambers
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 527, 2024, Page(s) 11970-11995, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3776

NLTE Effects on Kilonova Expansion Opacities

Author(s): Quentin Pognan, Anders Jerkstrand, Jon Grumer
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1253

SN 2017ivv: two years of evolution of a transitional Type II supernova

Author(s): C P Gutiérrez, A Pastorello, A Jerkstrand, L Galbany, M Sullivan, J P Anderson, S Taubenberger, H Kuncarayakti, S González-Gaitán, P Wiseman, C Inserra, M Fraser, K Maguire, S Smartt, T E Müller-B
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 499, 2021, Page(s) 974-992, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2763

A type Ia supernova at the heart of superluminous transient SN 2006gy

Author(s): Anders Jerkstrand, Keiichi Maeda, Koji S. Kawabata
Published in: Science, Issue 367/6476, 2020, Page(s) 415-418, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaw1469

On the validity of steady-state for nebular phase kilonovae

Author(s): Quentin Pognan, Anders Jerkstrand, Jon Grumer
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 510, Issue 3, March 2022, 2022, Page(s) Pages 3806–3837, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab3674

StaNdaRT: a repository of standardised test models and outputs for supernova radiative transfer

Author(s): Stéphane Blondin; Sergei Blinnikov; Fionntan P. Callan; Christine E. Collins; Luc Dessart; Wesley Even; Andreas Flörs; Andrew G. Fullard; D. John Hillier; Anders Jerkstrand; Daniel Kasen; Boaz Katz; Wolfgang Kerzendorf; Alexandra Kozyreva; Jack O’Brien; Ezequiel A. Pássaro; Nathaniel Roth; Ken J. Shen; Luke Shingles; Stuart A. Sim; Jaladh Singhal; Isaac G. Smith; Elena Sorokina; Victor P. Utr
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue Volume 668, A163, 2022, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244134

The molecular chemistry of Type Ibc supernovae and diagnostic potential with the <i>James Webb</i> Space Telescope

Author(s): S. Liljegren; A. Jerkstrand; P. S. Barklem; G. Nyman; R. Brady; S. N. Yurchenko
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue Vol 674, A184, 2023, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243491

Toward nebular spectral modeling of magnetar-powered supernovae

Author(s): C. M. B. Omand; A. Jerkstrand
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Issue Volume 673, May, 2023, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245406

Modelling supernova nebular lines in 3D with <scp>extrass</scp>

Author(s): Bart F A van Baal; Anders Jerkstrand; Annop Wongwathanarat; Hans-Thomas Janka
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 523, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1488

Actinide signatures in low electron fraction kilonova ejecta

Author(s): Quentin Pognan, Meng-Ru Wu, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Ricardo Ferreira da Silva, Anders Jerkstrand, Jon Grumer, Andreas Flörs
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 536, 2024, Page(s) 2973-2992, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae2778

Spectral synthesis techniques for supernovae and kilonovae

Author(s): Anders Jerkstrand
Published in: Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2365-0524
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s41115-025-00022-2

NLTE spectra of kilonovae

Author(s): Quentin Pognan; Jon Grumer; Anders Jerkstrand; Shinya Wanajo
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue Volume 526, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3106

ExTraSS: a Domain Decomposed 3D NLTE Radiative Transfer spectral synthesis code for nebular phase transients

Author(s): Bart F. van Baal, B., A. Jerkstrand
Published in: MNRAS, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.07539

Properties of gamma-ray decay lines in 3D core-collapse supernova models, with application to SN 1987A and Cas A

Author(s): A Jerkstrand, A Wongwathanarat, H-T Janka, M Gabler, D Alp, R Diehl, K Maeda, J Larsson, C Fransson, A Menon, A Heger
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 494/2, 2020, Page(s) 2471-2497, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa736

The Type II supernova SN 2020jfo in M 61, implications for progenitor system, and explosion dynamics

Author(s): J. Sollerman, S. Yang, S. Schulze, N. L. Strotjohann, A. Jerkstrand, S. D. Van Dyk, E. C. Kool, C. Barbarino, T. G. Brink, R. Bruch, K. De, A. V. Filippenko, C. Fremling, K. C. Patra, D. Perley, L. Ya
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 655, 2021, Page(s) A105, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141374

Emission line models for the lowest mass core-collapse supernovae -- II. Full 3D NLTE radiative transfer modelling of a 9.0 Msun neutrino-driven explosion

Author(s): Bart F. van Baal, A. Jerkstrand, D. Kresse, H.-T. Janka
Published in: MNRAS, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.07540

Three Core-Collapse Supernovae with Nebular Hydrogen Emission

Author(s): Sollerman, J.; Yang, S.; Schulze, S.; Strotjohann, N. L.; Jerkstrand, A.; Van Dyk, S. D.; Kool, E. C.; Barbarino, C.; Brink, T. G.; Bruch, R.; De, K.; Filippenko, A. V.; Fremling, C.; Patra, K. C.; Perley, D.; Yan, L.; Yang, Y.; Andreoni, I.; Campbell, R.; Coughlin, M.; Kasliwal, M.; Kim, Y. -L.; Rigault, M.; Shin, K.; Tzanidakis, A.; Ashley, M. C. B.; Moore, A. M.; Travouillon, T.
Published in: Montly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.14503

Diagnostics of 3D explosion asymmetries of stripped-envelope supernovae by nebular line profiles

Author(s): Bart F A van Baal, Anders Jerkstrand, Annop Wongwathanarat, Hans-Thomas Janka
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 532, 2024, Page(s) 4106-4131, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stae1603

Infrared spectral signatures of light r-process elements in kilonovae

Author(s): A. Jerkstrand, Anders, Q. Pognan, S. Banerjee, N. Sterling J. Grumer, N. Ferguson, K. Butler, J. Gillanders, S. Smartt, K. Kawaguchi, B. Vilagos
Published in: MNRAS, 2026, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.12410

1100 days in the life of the supernova 2018ibb

Author(s): Steve Schulze, Claes Fransson, Alexandra Kozyreva, Ting-Wan Chen, Ofer Yaron, Anders Jerkstrand, Avishay Gal-Yam, Jesper Sollerman, Lin Yan, Tuomas Kangas, Giorgos Leloudas, Conor M. B. Omand, Stephen
Published in: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, Issue 683, 2024, Page(s) A223, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346855

Oxygen and calcium nebular emission line relationships in core-collapse supernovae and Ca-rich transients

Author(s): S J Prentice; K Maguire; L Siebenaler; A Jerkstrand
Published in: Montly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1657

Close, bright, and boxy: the superluminous SN 2018hti

Author(s): Fiore, A. ; Benetti, S. ; Nicholl, M. ; Reguitti ; Cappellaro, E. ; Campana, S. ; Bose, S. search by orcid ; Paraskeva, E. ; Berger, E. ; Bravo, T. M. search by orcid ; Burke, J. ; Cai, Y. -Z. search by orcid ; Chen, T. -W. ; Chen, P. ; Ciolfi, R. search by orcid ; Dong, S. ; Gomez, S. ; Gromadzki, M. search by orcid ; Gutiérrez, C. P. search by orcid ; Hiramatsu, D. ; Hosseinzadeh, G. ; Howell,
Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022, ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac744