An intermediate luminosity transient in NGC300: The eruption of a dust-enshrouded massive star

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 699, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1850-1865

  Berger, E ^a   Soderberg, A M ^a   Chevalier, R A ^b   Fransson, C ^c   Foley, R J ^a   Leonard, D C ^d   Debes, J H ^e   Diamond Stanic, A M ^f   Dupree, A K ^a   Ivans, I I ^g   Simmerer, J ^h   Thompson, I B ^g   Tremonti, C A ^f  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Circumstellar matter; Stars: evolution; Stars: mass loss; Stars: winds, outflows

Indexed keywords

EID: 68149171455     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/699/2/1850     Document Type: Article

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