Type IIn supernovae at redshift z ≈2 from archival data

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7252, 2009, Pages 237-239

  Cooke, Jeff ^a   Sullivan, Mark ^b   Barton, Elizabeth J ^a   Bullock, James S ^a   Carlberg, Ray G ^c   Gal Yam, Avishay ^d   Tollerud, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; EXPLOSION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 67650471704     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08082     Document Type: Article

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