Light Curves of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory
Light Curves of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory
We investigate the light-curve properties of a sample of 26 spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) in the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) survey. These events are brighter than SNe Ib/c and SNe Ic-BL, on average, by about 4 and 2~mag, respectively. The peak absolute magnitudes of SLSNe-I in rest-frame $g$ …