An outburst from a massive star 40 days before a supernova explosion

Nature

Volumn 494, Issue 7435, 2013, Pages 65-67

  Ofek, E O ^a   Sullivan, M ^b,c   Cenko, S B ^d   Kasliwal, M M ^e   Gal Yam, A ^a   Kulkarni, S R ^f   Arcavi, I ^a   Bildsten, L ^g,h   Bloom, J S ^d,i   Horesh, A ^f   Howell, D A ^h,j   Filippenko, A V ^d   Laher, R ^k   Murray, D ^l   Nakar, E ^m   Nugent, P E ^d,i   Silverman, J M ^d,n   Shaviv, N J ^o   Surace, J ^k   Yaron, O ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^f California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^m TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁿ The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^o HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSION; LUMINESCENCE; MASS BALANCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PHOTOMETER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; LUMINANCE; PHOTOMETRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION; VELOCITY;

EID: 84876805040     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11877     Document Type: Article

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