Light echoes from ancient supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7071, 2005, Pages 1132-1134

  Rest, Armin ^a   Suntzeff, Nicholas B ^a   Olsen, Knut ^a   Prieto, Jose Luis ^b   Smith, R Chris ^a   Welch, Douglas L ^c   Becker, Andrew ^d   Bergmann, Marcel ^e   Clocchiatti, Alejandro ^f   Cook, Kem ^g   Garg, Arti ^h   Huber, Mark ^g   Miknaitis, Gajus ^d   Minniti, Dante ^f   Nikolaev, Sergei ^g   Stubbs, Christopher ^h  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EXPLOSIONS; NATURAL SCIENCES;

LIGHT ECHOES; MAGELLANIC CLOUD; SUPERNOVAE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; CLOUD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 29244443452     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04365     Document Type: Article

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