Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7377, 2011, Pages 348-350

  Li, Weidong ^a   Bloom, Joshua S ^a   Podsiadlowski, Philipp ^b   Miller, Adam A ^a   Cenko, S Bradley ^a   Jha, Saurabh W ^c   Sullivan, Mark ^b   Howell, D Andrew ^d,e   Nugent, Peter E ^a,f   Butler, Nathaniel R ^g   Ofek, Eran O ^h,i   Kasliwal, Mansi M ^j   Richards, Joseph W ^a   Stockton, Alan ^k   Shih, Hsin Yi ^k   Bildsten, Lars ^e,l   Shara, Michael M ^m   Bibby, Joanne ^m   Filippenko, Alexei V ^a   Ganeshalingam, Mohan ^a   Silverman, Jeffrey M ^a   Kulkarni, S R ^h   Law, Nicholas M ⁿ   Poznanski, Dovi ^o   Quimby, Robert M ^p   McCully, Curtis ^c   Patel, Brandon ^c   Maguire, Kate ^b   Shen, Ken J ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c State University of New Jersey   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^j Carnegie Institution for Science   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HELIUM;

CARBON; HELIUM; LUMINESCENCE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; LUMINANCE; MASS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED GIANT STAR; SUPERNOVA; WHITE DWARF STAR;

EID: 83455220286     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10646     Document Type: Article

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