The binary progenitor of Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1069-1072

  Ruiz Lapuente, Pilar ^a,b   Comeron, Fernando ^c   Méndez, Javier ^a,d   Canal, Ramon ^a   Smartt, Stephen J ^e   Filippenko, Alexei V ^f   Kurucz, Robert L ^g   Chornock, Ryan ^f   Foley, Ryan J ^f   Stanishev, Vallery ^h   Ibata, Rodrigo ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; MASS TRANSFER; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

LUMINOSITY; PROGENITOR SYSTEMS; RED GIANTS; SUPERNOVAE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COSMOS; EXPLOSION; GRAVITY; LUMINANCE; MASS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 8144223514     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03006     Document Type: Article

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