Testing the magnetar scenario for superluminous supernovae with circular polarimetry

Institutions:

• European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching b. München, Germany
• Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
• Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
• Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ, UK
• Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, 85748, Garching, Germany
• Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008, Granada, Spain
• University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Applied Physics, Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Ruder Boškovic Institute, Bijenicka cesta 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
• Division of Physics, Math, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
• Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queens University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
• Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
• Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK
• Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
• Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA