A faint type of supernova from a white dwarf with a helium-rich companion

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7296, 2010, Pages 322-325

  Perets, H B ^a,b   Gal Yam, A ^a   Mazzali, P A ^c,d,e   Arnett, D ^f   Kagan, D ^g   Filippenko, A V ^h   Li, W ^h   Arcavi, I ^a   Cenko, S B ^h   Fox, D B ⁱ   Leonard, D C ^j   Moon, D S ^k   Sand, D J ^b,l   Soderberg, A M ^b   Anderson, J P ^m,n   James, P A ⁿ   Foley, R J ^b   Ganeshalingam, M ^h   Ofek, E O ^o   Bildsten, L ^p,q   Nelemans, G ^r   Shen, K J ^p   Weinberg, N N ^h   Metzger, B D ^h   Piro, A L ^h   Quataert, E ^h   Kiewe, M ^a   Poznanski, D ^h,s   more..

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^l LAS CUMBRES OBSERVATORY GLOBAL TELESCOPE NETWORK   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

ⁿ LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^o Department of Astronomy ^*  (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^s LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; TITANIUM;

ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; HELIUM; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIONUCLIDE; TITANIUM;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BURN; HALO EFFECT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SN 2005 E; SPACE; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77952696493     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09056     Document Type: Article

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