Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7168, 2007, Pages 390-392

  Woosley, S E ^a   Blinnikov, S ^a,b,c   Heger, Alexander ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN;

COLLISION; COMET; ELECTRON; LUMINESCENCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; COSMOS; ELECTRON; LUMINANCE; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; STAR; SUPERNOVA;

EID: 36248977108     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06333     Document Type: Article

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