An unusual supernova in the error box of the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998
- T. Galama, P. Vreeswijk, P. Ianna
- PhysicsNature
- 15 October 1998
The discovery of afterglows associated with γ-ray bursts at X-ray, optical and radio wavelengths and the measurement of the redshifts of some of these events, has established that γ-ray bursts lie at…
Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star
- P. Nugent, M. Sullivan, D. Poznanski
- PhysicsNature
- 27 October 2011
Early observations of type Ia supernova SN 2011fe in the galaxy M101 at a distance from Earth of 6.4 megaparsecs find that the exploding star was probably a carbon–oxygen white dwarf, and from the lack of an early shock it is concluded that the companion was likely a main-sequence star.
A Common Explosion Mechanism for Type Ia Supernovae
- P. Mazzali, F. Röpke, S. Benetti, W. Hillebrandt
- PhysicsScience
- 9 February 2007
A systematic spectral analysis of a large sample of well-observed type Ia supernovae finds that allsupernovae have low-velocity cores of stable iron-group elements and suggests that their progenitors had the same mass.
A hypernova model for the supernova associated with the γ-ray burst of 25 April 1998
- K. Iwamoto, P. Mazzali, F. Frontera
- PhysicsNature
- 30 June 1998
The discovery of the unusual supernova SN1998bw, and its possible association with the γ-ray burst GRB 980425, provide new insights into the explosion mechanism of very massive stars and the origin…
Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger
- M. Kasliwal, E. Nakar, W. Zhao
- PhysicsScience
- 16 October 2017
It is demonstrated that merging neutron stars are a long-sought production site forging heavy elements by r-process nucleosynthesis, which is dissimilar to classical short gamma-ray bursts with ultrarelativistic jets.
The Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae: Evidence for Systematics?
- S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, V. Stanishev
- Physics
- 2 November 2004
The photometric and spectroscopic properties of 26 well-observed Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) were analyzed with the aim of exploring SN Ia diversity. The sample includes (Branch) normal SNe, as well…
Bolometric light curves and explosion parameters of 38 stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae
- J. Lyman, D. Bersier, E. Pian
- Physics
- 13 June 2014
Literature data are collated for 38 stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae (SE SNe; i.e. SNe IIb, Ib, Ic and Ic-BL) that have good light curve coverage in more than one optical band. Using…
Supernova 2007bi as a pair-instability explosion
- A. Gal-yam, P. Mazzali, J. Deng
- PhysicsNature
- 3 December 2009
Observations of supernova SN 2007bi are reported, a luminous, slowly evolving object located within a dwarf galaxy, and it is shown that >3 of radioactive 56Ni was synthesized during the explosion and that the observations are well fitted by models of pair-instability supernovae.
A neutron-star-driven X-ray flash associated with supernova SN 2006aj
- P. Mazzali, Jin-song Deng, A. Filippenko
- PhysicsNature
- 21 March 2006
The results indicate that the supernova–GRB connection extends to a much broader range of stellar masses than previously thought, possibly involving different physical mechanisms: a ‘collapsar’ for the more massive stars collapsing to a black hole, and magnetic activity of the nascent neutron star for the less massive stars.
An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218
- E. Pian, P. Mazzali, R. Starling
- PhysicsNature
- 20 March 2006
The data, combined with radio and X-ray observations, suggest that XRF 060218 is an intrinsically weak and soft event, rather than a classical GRB observed off-axis, which extends the GRB–supernova connection to X-rays flashes and fainter supernovae, implying a common origin.
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