Detection of a Red Supergiant Progenitor Star of a Type II-Plateau Supernova

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5657, 2004, Pages 499-503

  Smartt, Stephen J ^a   Maund, Justyn R ^a   Hendry, Margaret A ^a   Tout, Christopher A ^a   Gilmore, Gerard F ^a   Mattila, Seppo ^b   Benn, Chris R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

^c ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; SPACE TELESCOPES;

SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS;

ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DEVICE; IMAGING; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELESCOPE; THEORY;

EID: 1642434143     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092967     Document Type: Article

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44. Observations were made with the NASA/European Space Agency HST and obtained from the data archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, under NASA contract NAS 5-26S5S. These observations are associated with program GO9733. This work is also based on observations obtained with the Gemini Telescope. We acknowledge the support given by ASTROVIRTEL, a project funded by the European Commission under FP5 contract no. HPRI-CT-1999-00081. J.R.M., M.A.H., and S.J.S. thank Partide Physics and Astronomy Research Council for financial support, and S.M. acknowledges the "Physics of Type la SNe" Research Training Network under contract HPRN-CT-2002-00303. We thank B. Januszewski for help in coordinating and executing the HST observations and P. Meikle and R. Kotak for assistance, advice, and reading of the manuscript.