Spectropolarimetry of extremely luminous type Ia supernova 2009dc: Nearly spherical explosion of super-chandrasekhar mass white dwarf

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 714, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1209-1216

  Tanaka, Masaomi ^a   Kawabata, Koji S ^b   Yamanaka, Masayuki ^b   Maeda, Keiichi ^a   Hattori, Takashi ^c   Aoki, Kentaro ^c   Nomoto, Ken'Ichi ^a   Iye, Masanori ^c   Sasaki, Toshiyuki ^c   Mazzali, Paolo A ^d,e   Pian, Elena ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polarization; Supernovae: general; Supernovae: individual (SN 2009dc, SNe 2003fg, 2006gz, 1991T); White dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951678776     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/714/2/1209     Document Type: Article

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