Superluminous supernovae at high redshift

Tim Abbott, Jeff Cooke, Chris Curtin, Shahab Joudaki, Antonios Katsianis, Anton Koekemoer, Jeremy Mould, Edoardo Tescari, Syed Uddin, Lifan Wang

Published 2017-02-08Version 1

Superluminous supernovae are beginning to be discovered at redshifts as early as the epoch of reionization. A number of candidate mechanisms is reviewed, together with the discovery programs.