• DOI:10.1038/nature13615
Corpus ID: 4464556

A luminous, blue progenitor system for the type Iax supernova 2012Z

@article{Mccully2014ALB,
  title={A luminous, blue progenitor system for the type Iax supernova 2012Z},
  author={C. Mccully and S. Jha and R. Foley and L. Bildsten and W. Fong and R. Kirshner and G. Marion and A. Riess and M. Stritzinger},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2014},
  volume={512},
  pages={54-56}
}

C. Mccully, S. Jha, +6 authors M. Stritzinger

Published 2014

Medicine, Physics

Nature

Type Iax supernovae are stellar explosions that are spectroscopically similar to some type Ia supernovae at the time of maximum light emission, except with lower ejecta velocities. They are also distinguished by lower luminosities. At late times, their spectroscopic properties diverge from those of other supernovae, but their composition (dominated by iron-group and intermediate-mass elements) suggests a physical connection to normal type Ia supernovae. Supernovae of type Iax are not rare; they… CONTINUE READING

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