First results from GeMS/GSAOI for project SUNBIRD: Supernovae UNmasked by Infra-Red Detection

We would like to thank the anonymous referee for constructive comments. This publication is based on observations obtained at the Gemini Observatory, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the NSF on behalf of the Gemini partnership: the National Science Foundation (United States); the National Research Council (Canada); CONICYT (Chile); Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Productiva (Argentina); and Ministerio da Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovacao (Brazil). The relevant program codes are: GS-2012B-SV-407 (PI: S. Ryder); GS-2013A-Q-9 (PI: S. Ryder/F. Bauer); GS-2015A-C-2, (PI: S. Sweet/R. Sharp); GS-2015A-Q-6 (PI: S. Ryder); GS-2015A-Q-7 (PI: S. Ryder); GN-2015A- DD-4 (PI: S. Ryder) and GS-2016A-C-1 (PI: E. Kool). This publication is based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID's 073.D-0406 (PI: P. Vaisanen), 086.B-0901 (PI: A. Escala) and 089.D-0847 (PI: S. Mattila) and on data obtained from the ESO Science Archive Facility under request numbers eckool194907, -196798 and -226876. The European VLBI Network is a joint facility of independent European, African, Asian and North American radio astronomy institutes. Scientific results from data presented in this publication are derived from the following EVN project code(s): RSP13 (P.I. Perez-Torres). RMcD is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (project number FT150100333). ECK is grateful for financial support provided by the International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship and the Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) through the AAO PhD Scholarship Scheme. MAPT, RHI and AA acknowledge support by the Spanish MINECO through grants AYA2012-38491-C02-02 and AYA2015-63939-C2-1-P, co-funded with FEDER funds. FEB acknowledges support from CONICYT-Chile Basal-CATA PFB-06/2007 and FONDECYT Regular 1141218. CRC acknowledges support from CONICYT through FONDECYT grant 3150238. FEB and CRC acknowledge support from the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism's Millennium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS.

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