A runaway collision in a young star cluster as the origin of the brightest supernova

Nature

Volumn 450, Issue 7168, 2007, Pages 388-389

  Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a,b   Van Den Heuvel, Edward P J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLLISION; HYDROGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EXPLOSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN; SUPERNOVA;

EID: 36249022054     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06276     Document Type: Article

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