Morgan Fraser; Joseph Lyman; Emir Karamehmetoglu; Melissa Shahbandeh; Emma Callis; Peter Nugent; Mansi Kasliwal; Maximilian Stritzinger; Cosimo Inserra; Jesper Sollerman; Stephen J Smartt; Griffin Hossenizadeh; Simon Prentice; Christopher R Burns; Iair Arcavi; Charles Baltay; Tiara Diamond; Mark Phillips; David Rabinowitz; Giuliano Pignata; Mark Sullivan; Nidia Morrell; Chris Ashall; Ting-Wan Chen; Kate Maguire; Erkki Kankare; David Young; Peter Clark; D Andrew Howell; Carlos Contreras; Miika Pursiainen; Eric Y Hsiao; Rubina Kotak
This paper describes the rapidly evolving and unusual supernova LSQ13ddu, discovered by the La Silla-QUEST survey. LSQ13ddu displayed a rapid rise of just 4.8 +/- 0.9 d to reach a peak brightness of -19.70 +/- 0.02 mag in ...