Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon-oxygen white dwarf star

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7377, 2011, Pages 344-347

  Nugent, Peter E ^a,b   Sullivan, Mark ^c   Cenko, S Bradley ^b   Thomas, Rollin C ^a   Kasen, Daniel ^a,b   Howell, D Andrew ^d,e   Bersier, David ^f   Bloom, Joshua S ^b   Kulkarni, S R ^g   Kandrashoff, Michael T ^b   Filippenko, Alexei V ^b   Silverman, Jeffrey M ^b   Marcy, Geoffrey W ^b   Howard, Andrew W ^b   Isaacson, Howard T ^b   Maguire, Kate ^c   Suzuki, Nao ^a   Tarlton, James E ^c   Pan, Yen Chen ^c   Bildsten, Lars ^e,h   Fulton, Benjamin J ^d,e   Parrent, Jerod T ^d,i   Sand, David ^d,e   Podsiadlowski, Philipp ^c   Bianco, Federica B ^d,e   Dilday, Benjamin ^d,e   Graham, Melissa L ^d,e   Lyman, Joe ^f   James, Phil ^f   Kasliwal, Mansi M ^g   Law, Nicholas M ^j   Quimby, Robert M ^k   Hook, Isobel M ^c,l   Walker, Emma S ^m   Mazzali, Paolo ^n,o   Pian, Elena ^n,o   Ofek, Eran O ^g,p   Gal Yam, Avishay ^p   Poznanski, Dovi ^a,b,q   more..

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ Dartmouth College   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^m SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

ⁿ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^o MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^p WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^q TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; HELIUM; OXYGEN;

ACCELERATION; CARBON; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HELIUM; OXYGEN; SPECTROSCOPY; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 83455234789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10644     Document Type: Article

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