Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova as a standard type Ia as revealed by its light-echo spectrum

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7222, 2008, Pages 617-619

  Krause, Oliver ^a   Tanaka, Masaomi ^b   Usuda, Tomonori ^c   Hattori, Takashi ^c   Goto, Miwa ^a   Birkmann, Stephan ^a,d   Nomoto, Ken'ichi ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; SPECTRUM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; IMAGING; LIGHT; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 57349140322     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07608     Document Type: Article

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