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A hybrid type Ia supernova with an early flash triggered by helium-shell detonation

A hybrid type Ia supernova with an early flash triggered by helium-shell detonation

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A hybrid type Ia supernova with an early flash triggered by helium-shell detonation

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A hybrid type Ia supernova with an early flash triggered by helium-shell detonation

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2017-10, Vol.550 (7674), p.80-83

Language

English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

The detection and simulation of a type Ia supernova with an early, red flash suggests that it formed through detonation of the helium shell of a white dwarf, rather than by collision of the ejecta with a companion star or by merging with another white dwarf.
A different kind of supernova
Type Ia supernovae have rather uniform and normalizable...

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A hybrid type Ia supernova with an early flash triggered by helium-shell detonation

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1947619477

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1947619477

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ISSN

0028-0836

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/nature23908

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