Optical observations of supernova candidates with the ILMT

@misc{dubey2026optical,
  title = {{Optical observations of supernova candidates with the ILMT}},
  author = {Monalisa Dubey and Bhavya Ailawadhi and Talat Akhunov and Naveen Dukiya and Sara Filali and Paul Hickson and Priyanshi Kumari and Gokul Singh Mehra and Kuntal Misra and Vibhore Negi and Kumar Pranshu and Jean Surdej and Sarvesh Kumar Yadav},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.21277},
  eprint = {2610.21277},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21277},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Optical observations of supernova candidates with the ILMT
AU  - Monalisa Dubey
AU  - Bhavya Ailawadhi
AU  - Talat Akhunov
AU  - Naveen Dukiya
AU  - Sara Filali
AU  - Paul Hickson
AU  - Priyanshi Kumari
AU  - Gokul Singh Mehra
AU  - Kuntal Misra
AU  - Vibhore Negi
AU  - Kumar Pranshu
AU  - Jean Surdej
AU  - Sarvesh Kumar Yadav
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/15
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.21277
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21277
AB  - The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m optical ({\em gri} spectral bands) zenithal survey telescope with a field of view of 22.3×22.3 arcmin, suitable for discovery and follow-up of faint transients. With the \texttt{PyLMT} pipeline, several new transients, including supernova candidates, are being discovered and detected routinely. We report the discovery of six supernova candidates, AT~2023yjc, AT~2024agkc, AT~2024aifv, AT~2024aiha, AT~2024fxn, and AT~2024zsm, using the ILMT. Ten additional supernova candidates were discovered in other surveys but were also detected with the ILMT. Here, we present the light curves of all supernova candidates observed with the ILMT in the {\em gri} bands. The basic light curve parameters, such as the rise time, decline rate, and peak magnitude, are estimated and reported.
ER  -