• DOI:10.1126/science.1205983
Corpus ID: 46458836

Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A

@article{Matsuura2011HerschelDA,
  title={Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A},
  author={M. Matsuura and E. Dwek and M. Meixner and M. Otsuka and B. Babler and M. Barlow and J. Roman-Duval and C. Engelbracht and K. Sandstrom and M. Laki{\'c}evi{\'c} and J. V. van Loon and G. Sonneborn and G. Clayton and K. Long and P. Lundqvist and T. Nozawa and K. Gordon and S. Hony and P. Panuzzo and K. Okumura and K. Misselt and E. Montiel and M. Sauvage},
  journal={Science},
  year={2011},
  volume={333},
  pages={1258 - 1261}
}

• M. Matsuura, E. Dwek, +20 authors M. Sauvage
• Published 2011
• Physics, Medicine
• Science

The large amount of dust produced by this supernova may help explain the dust observed in young galaxies. We report far-infrared and submillimeter observations of supernova 1987A, the star whose explosion was observed on 23 February 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy located 160,000 light years away. The observations reveal the presence of a population of cold dust grains radiating with a temperature of about 17 to 23 kelvin at a rate of about 220 times the luminosity of the Sun. The… Expand

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