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Zimmerman EA, Irani I, Chen P, Gal-Yam A, Schulze S, Perley DA, Sollerman J, Filippenko AV, Shenar T, Yaron O, Shahaf S, Bruch RJ, Ofek EO, De Cia A, Brink TG, Yang Y, Vasylyev SS, Ben Ami S, Aubert M, Badash A, Bloom JS, Brown PJ, De K, Dimitriadis G, Fransson C, Fremling C, Hinds K, Horesh A, Johansson JP, Kasliwal MM, Kulkarni SR, Kushnir D, Martin C, Matuzewski M, McGurk RC, Miller AA, Morag J, Neil JD, Nugent PE, Post RS, Prusinski NZ, Qin Y, Raichoor A, Riddle R, Rowe M, Rusholme B, Sfaradi I, Sjoberg KM, Soumagnac M, Stein RD, Strotjohann NL, Terwel JH, Wasserman T, Wise J, Wold A, Yan L, Zhang K. The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf. Nature 2024; 627:759-762. [PMID: 38538936 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07116-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 04/01/2024]
Abstract
The early evolution of a supernova (SN) can reveal information about the environment and the progenitor star. When a star explodes in vacuum, the first photons to escape from its surface appear as a brief, hours-long shock-breakout flare1,2, followed by a cooling phase of emission. However, for stars exploding within a distribution of dense, optically thick circumstellar material (CSM), the first photons escape from the material beyond the stellar edge and the duration of the initial flare can extend to several days, during which the escaping emission indicates photospheric heating3. Early serendipitous observations2,4 that lacked ultraviolet (UV) data were unable to determine whether the early emission is heating or cooling and hence the nature of the early explosion event. Here we report UV spectra of the nearby SN 2023ixf in the galaxy Messier 101 (M101). Using the UV data as well as a comprehensive set of further multiwavelength observations, we temporally resolve the emergence of the explosion shock from a thick medium heated by the SN emission. We derive a reliable bolometric light curve that indicates that the shock breaks out from a dense layer with a radius substantially larger than typical supergiants.
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- E A Zimmerman
- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Departamento de Astrofísica, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
- Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva, Versoix, Switzerland
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Physics Department and Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics (THCA), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- W. M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela, HI, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
- Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Post Observatory, Lexington, MA, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Isaac Newton Group (ING), Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
- Isaac Newton Group (ING), Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Gal-Yam A, Bruch R, Schulze S, Yang Y, Perley DA, Irani I, Sollerman J, Kool EC, Soumagnac MT, Yaron O, Strotjohann NL, Zimmerman E, Barbarino C, Kulkarni SR, Kasliwal MM, De K, Yao Y, Fremling C, Yan L, Ofek EO, Fransson C, Filippenko AV, Zheng W, Brink TG, Copperwheat CM, Foley RJ, Brown J, Siebert M, Leloudas G, Cabrera-Lavers AL, Garcia-Alvarez D, Marante-Barreto A, Frederick S, Hung T, Wheeler JC, Vinkó J, Thomas BP, Graham MJ, Duev DA, Drake AJ, Dekany R, Bellm EC, Rusholme B, Shupe DL, Andreoni I, Sharma Y, Riddle R, van Roestel J, Knezevic N. A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon-oxygen-neon nebula. Nature 2022; 601:201-204. [PMID: 35022591 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04155-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
The final fate of massive stars, and the nature of the compact remnants they leave behind (black holes and neutron stars), are open questions in astrophysics. Many massive stars are stripped of their outer hydrogen envelopes as they evolve. Such Wolf-Rayet stars1 emit strong and rapidly expanding winds with speeds greater than 1,000 kilometres per second. A fraction of this population is also helium-depleted, with spectra dominated by highly ionized emission lines of carbon and oxygen (types WC/WO). Evidence indicates that the most commonly observed supernova explosions that lack hydrogen and helium (types Ib/Ic) cannot result from massive WC/WO stars2,3, leading some to suggest that most such stars collapse directly into black holes without a visible supernova explosion4. Here we report observations of SN 2019hgp, beginning about a day after the explosion. Its short rise time and rapid decline place it among an emerging population of rapidly evolving transients5-8. Spectroscopy reveals a rich set of emission lines indicating that the explosion occurred within a nebula composed of carbon, oxygen and neon. Narrow absorption features show that this material is expanding at high velocities (greater than 1,500 kilometres per second), requiring a compact progenitor. Our observations are consistent with an explosion of a massive WC/WO star, and suggest that massive Wolf-Rayet stars may be the progenitors of some rapidly evolving transients.
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- A Gal-Yam
- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- DTU Space, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.,Konkoly Observatory, ELKH CSFK, Budapest, Hungary.,Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.,ELTE Institute of Physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- DIRAC Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- IPAC, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Veres P, Bhat PN, Briggs MS, Cleveland WH, Hamburg R, Hui CM, Mailyan B, Preece RD, Roberts OJ, von Kienlin A, Wilson-Hodge CA, Kocevski D, Arimoto M, Tak D, Asano K, Axelsson M, Barbiellini G, Bissaldi E, Dirirsa FF, Gill R, Granot J, McEnery J, Omodei N, Razzaque S, Piron F, Racusin JL, Thompson DJ, Campana S, Bernardini MG, Kuin NPM, Siegel MH, Cenko SB, O’Brien P, Capalbi M, Daì A, De Pasquale M, Gropp J, Klingler N, Osborne JP, Perri M, Starling RLC, Tagliaferri G, Tohuvavohu A, Ursi A, Tavani M, Cardillo M, Casentini C, Piano G, Evangelista Y, Verrecchia F, Pittori C, Lucarelli F, Bulgarelli A, Parmiggiani N, Anderson GE, Anderson JP, Bernardi G, Bolmer J, Caballero-García MD, Carrasco IM, Castellón A, Segura NC, Castro-Tirado AJ, Cherukuri SV, Cockeram AM, D’Avanzo P, Di Dato A, Diretse R, Fender RP, Fernández-García E, Fynbo JPU, Fruchter AS, Greiner J, Gromadzki M, Heintz KE, Heywood I, van der Horst AJ, Hu YD, Inserra C, Izzo L, Jaiswal V, Jakobsson P, Japelj J, Kankare E, Kann DA, Kouveliotou C, Klose S, Levan AJ, Li XY, Lotti S, Maguire K, Malesani DB, Manulis I, Marongiu M, Martin S, Melandri A, Michałowski MJ, Miller-Jones JCA, Misra K, Moin A, Mooley KP, Nasri S, Nicholl M, Noschese A, Novara G, Pandey SB, Peretti E, del Pulgar CJP, Pérez-Torres MA, Perley DA, Piro L, Ragosta F, Resmi L, Ricci R, Rossi A, Sánchez-Ramírez R, Selsing J, Schulze S, Smartt SJ, Smith IA, Sokolov VV, Stevens J, Tanvir NR, Thöne CC, Tiengo A, Tremou E, Troja E, de Ugarte Postigo A, Valeev AF, Vergani SD, Wieringa M, Woudt PA, Xu D, Yaron O, Young DR. Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst. Nature 2019; 575:459-463. [DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1754-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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De K, Kasliwal MM, Ofek EO, Moriya TJ, Burke J, Cao Y, Cenko SB, Doran GB, Duggan GE, Fender RP, Fransson C, Gal-Yam A, Horesh A, Kulkarni SR, Laher RR, Lunnan R, Manulis I, Masci F, Mazzali PA, Nugent PE, Perley DA, Petrushevska T, Piro AL, Rumsey C, Sollerman J, Sullivan M, Taddia F. A hot and fast ultra-stripped supernova that likely formed a compact neutron star binary. Science 2018; 362:201-206. [PMID: 30309948 DOI: 10.1126/science.aas8693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2017] [Accepted: 07/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Compact neutron star binary systems are produced from binary massive stars through stellar evolution involving up to two supernova explosions. The final stages in the formation of these systems have not been directly observed. We report the discovery of iPTF 14gqr (SN 2014ft), a type Ic supernova with a fast-evolving light curve indicating an extremely low ejecta mass (≈0.2 solar masses) and low kinetic energy (≈2 × 1050 ergs). Early photometry and spectroscopy reveal evidence of shock cooling of an extended helium-rich envelope, likely ejected in an intense pre-explosion mass-loss episode of the progenitor. Taken together, we interpret iPTF 14gqr as evidence for ultra-stripped supernovae that form neutron stars in compact binary systems.
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- K De
- Cahill Centre for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
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- Cahill Centre for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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- Las Cumbres Observatory, 6740 Cortona Drive, Suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117, USA.,Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Cahill Centre for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK
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- Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Cahill Centre for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, MS 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, MS 100-22, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK.,Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.,Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.,Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 11c, 5270 Ajdovščina, Slovenia
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- The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
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- Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, 19 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
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- Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Bersten MC, Folatelli G, García F, Van Dyk SD, Benvenuto OG, Orellana M, Buso V, Sánchez JL, Tanaka M, Maeda K, Filippenko AV, Zheng W, Brink TG, Cenko SB, de Jaeger T, Kumar S, Moriya TJ, Nomoto K, Perley DA, Shivvers I, Smith N. A surge of light at the birth of a supernova. Nature 2018; 554:497-499. [PMID: 29469097 DOI: 10.1038/nature25151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
It is difficult to establish the properties of massive stars that explode as supernovae. The electromagnetic emission during the first minutes to hours after the emergence of the shock from the stellar surface conveys important information about the final evolution and structure of the exploding star. However, the unpredictable nature of supernova events hinders the detection of this brief initial phase. Here we report the serendipitous discovery of a newly born, normal type IIb supernova (SN 2016gkg), which reveals a rapid brightening at optical wavelengths of about 40 magnitudes per day. The very frequent sampling of the observations allowed us to study in detail the outermost structure of the progenitor of the supernova and the physics of the emergence of the shock. We develop hydrodynamical models of the explosion that naturally account for the complete evolution of the supernova over distinct phases regulated by different physical processes. This result suggests that it is appropriate to decouple the treatment of the shock propagation from the unknown mechanism that triggers the explosion.
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- M C Bersten
- Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata (IALP), CONICET, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.,Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata (IALP), CONICET, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.,Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina.,Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (CCT-La Plata, CONICET; CICPBA), CC No. 5, 1894 Villa Elisa, Argentina.,Université Paris Diderot, AIM, Sorbonne Paris Cité, CEA, CNRS, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Caltech/IPAC, Mailcode 100-22, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata (IALP), CONICET, Argentina.,Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, B1900FWA, La Plata, Argentina
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- Sede Andina, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Mitre 630 (8400) Bariloche, CONICET, Argentina
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- Observatorio Astronómico Busoniano, Entre Ríos 2974 (2000), Rosario, Argentina
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- Observatorio Astronómico Geminis Austral, Rosario, Argentina
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- Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan.,Department of Astronomy, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3411, USA.,Miller Senior Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3411, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3411, USA
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.,Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3411, USA
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- Department of Physics, Florida State University, 77 Chieftain Way, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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- Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3411, USA
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- Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
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Kasliwal MM, Nakar E, Singer LP, Kaplan DL, Cook DO, Van Sistine A, Lau RM, Fremling C, Gottlieb O, Jencson JE, Adams SM, Feindt U, Hotokezaka K, Ghosh S, Perley DA, Yu PC, Piran T, Allison JR, Anupama GC, Balasubramanian A, Bannister KW, Bally J, Barnes J, Barway S, Bellm E, Bhalerao V, Bhattacharya D, Blagorodnova N, Bloom JS, Brady PR, Cannella C, Chatterjee D, Cenko SB, Cobb BE, Copperwheat C, Corsi A, De K, Dobie D, Emery SWK, Evans PA, Fox OD, Frail DA, Frohmaier C, Goobar A, Hallinan G, Harrison F, Helou G, Hinderer T, Ho AYQ, Horesh A, Ip WH, Itoh R, Kasen D, Kim H, Kuin NPM, Kupfer T, Lynch C, Madsen K, Mazzali PA, Miller AA, Mooley K, Murphy T, Ngeow CC, Nichols D, Nissanke S, Nugent P, Ofek EO, Qi H, Quimby RM, Rosswog S, Rusu F, Sadler EM, Schmidt P, Sollerman J, Steele I, Williamson AR, Xu Y, Yan L, Yatsu Y, Zhang C, Zhao W. Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger. Science 2017; 358:1559-1565. [PMID: 29038373 DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 441] [Impact Index Per Article: 63.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an electromagnetic counterpart (EM170817) with gravitational waves (GW170817) detected from merging neutron stars. By synthesizing a panchromatic data set, we demonstrate that merging neutron stars are a long-sought production site forging heavy elements by r-process nucleosynthesis. The weak gamma rays seen in EM170817 are dissimilar to classical short gamma-ray bursts with ultrarelativistic jets. Instead, we suggest that breakout of a wide-angle, mildly relativistic cocoon engulfing the jet explains the low-luminosity gamma rays, the high-luminosity ultraviolet-optical-infrared, and the delayed radio and x-ray emission. We posit that all neutron star mergers may lead to a wide-angle cocoon breakout, sometimes accompanied by a successful jet and sometimes by a choked jet.
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Affiliation(s)
- M M Kasliwal
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
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- The Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
| | - L P Singer
- Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
| | - D L Kaplan
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
| | - D O Cook
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - A Van Sistine
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
| | - R M Lau
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - C Fremling
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - O Gottlieb
- The Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - S M Adams
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics, Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute, 162 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA.,Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
| | - S Ghosh
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
| | - D A Perley
- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Browlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, No. 300, Zhongda Road, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan
| | - T Piran
- Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
| | - J R Allison
- Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions, Australia
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- Indian Institute of Astrophysics, II Block Koramangala, Bangalore 560034, India
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- Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune 411008, India
| | - K W Bannister
- Australia Telescope National Facility, Astronomy and Space Science, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Post Office Box 76, Epping, New South Wales 1710, Australia
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- Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80305, USA
| | - J Barnes
- Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
| | - S Barway
- South African Astronomical Observatory, Post Office Box 9, Observatory, Cape Town 7935, South Africa
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
| | - V Bhalerao
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Office Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
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- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - J S Bloom
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA.,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-4206, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
| | - P R Brady
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
| | - C Cannella
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - D Chatterjee
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
| | - S B Cenko
- Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
| | - B E Cobb
- Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
| | - C Copperwheat
- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Browlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University, Box 41051, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051, USA
| | - K De
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, Australia.,Australia Telescope National Facility, Astronomy and Space Science, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Post Office Box 76, Epping, New South Wales 1710, Australia
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- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
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- X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM 87825, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ, UK.,Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Dennis Sciama Building, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
| | - G Hallinan
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - F Harrison
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - G Helou
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - T Hinderer
- Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - A Horesh
- Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA.,Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Gemini Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
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- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
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- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, Australia
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- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Browlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK.,Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
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- Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.,The Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK
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- Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, Australia
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- Graduate Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, No. 300, Zhongda Road, Zhongli District, Taoyuan City 32001, Taiwan
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- Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA.,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-4206, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
| | - E O Ofek
- Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
| | - H Qi
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
| | - R M Quimby
- Department of Astronomy, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.,Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Engineering (EECS), University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA
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- Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.,Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics, Australia
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- Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Browlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - L Yan
- Division of Physics, Math and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.,Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
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- School of Engineering (EECS), University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA
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Levan AJ, Tanvir NR, Fruchter AS, Hjorth J, Pian E, Mazzali P, Hounsell RA, Perley DA, Cano Z, Graham J, Cenko SB, Fynbo JPU, Kouveliotou C, Pe'er A, Misra K, Wiersema K. HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPEOBSERVATIONS OF THE AFTERGLOW, SUPERNOVA, AND HOST GALAXY ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXTREMELY BRIGHT GRB 130427A. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/792/2/115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Levan AJ, Tanvir NR, Cenko SB, Perley DA, Wiersema K, Bloom JS, Fruchter AS, Postigo ADU, O’Brien PT, Butler N, van der Horst AJ, Leloudas G, Morgan AN, Misra K, Bower GC, Farihi J, Tunnicliffe RL, Modjaz M, Silverman JM, Hjorth J, Thöne C, Cucchiara A, Cerón JMC, Castro-Tirado AJ, Arnold JA, Bremer M, Brodie JP, Carroll T, Cooper MC, Curran PA, Cutri RM, Ehle J, Forbes D, Fynbo J, Gorosabel J, Graham J, Hoffman DI, Guziy S, Jakobsson P, Kamble A, Kerr T, Kasliwal MM, Kouveliotou C, Kocevski D, Law NM, Nugent PE, Ofek EO, Poznanski D, Quimby RM, Rol E, Romanowsky AJ, Sánchez-Ramírez R, Schulze S, Singh N, van Spaandonk L, Starling RLC, Strom RG, Tello JC, Vaduvescu O, Wheatley PJ, Wijers RAMJ, Winters JM, Xu D. An Extremely Luminous Panchromatic Outburst from the Nucleus of a Distant Galaxy. Science 2011; 333:199-202. [PMID: 21680811 DOI: 10.1126/science.1207143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 258] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- A. J. Levan
- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
| | - N. R. Tanvir
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
| | - S. B. Cenko
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - D. A. Perley
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - K. Wiersema
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
| | - J. S. Bloom
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - A. S. Fruchter
- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
| | - A. de Ugarte Postigo
- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - P. T. O’Brien
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
| | - N. Butler
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - A. J. van der Horst
- Universities Space Research Association, National Space Science and Technology Center, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
| | - G. Leloudas
- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - A. N. Morgan
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - K. Misra
- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
| | - G. C. Bower
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - J. Farihi
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10024, USA
| | - J. M. Silverman
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - J. Hjorth
- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - C. Thöne
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
| | - A. Cucchiara
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
| | - J. M. Castro Cerón
- Herschel Science Operations Centre, European Space Astronomy Centre, European Space Agency (ESA), Post Office Box 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Caada, Madrid, Spain
| | - A. J. Castro-Tirado
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
| | - J. A. Arnold
- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
| | - M. Bremer
- Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, Domaine Universitaire, 38406 Saint Martin d’Hères, France
| | - J. P. Brodie
- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
| | - T. Carroll
- Joint Astronomy center, 660 North A’ohoku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
| | - M. C. Cooper
- Center for Galaxy Evolution, University of California, Irvine, 4129 Frederick Reines Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
| | - P. A. Curran
- Astrophysique Interactions Multi-échelles, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique/Direction des Sciences de la Matière–CNRS, Irfu/Service d’Astrophysique, Centre de Saclay, Bâtiment 709, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
| | - R. M. Cutri
- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
| | - J. Ehle
- Joint Astronomy center, 660 North A’ohoku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
| | - D. Forbes
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University, Hawthorn VIC 3122 Australia
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- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 5 IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1900 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee,WI 53211, USA
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- Joint Astronomy center, 660 North A’ohoku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Space Science Office, VP62, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 3H4 Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
- Computational Cosmology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–3411, USA
- Computational Cosmology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Centre for Astrophysics and Cosmology, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 5 IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Centre for Astronomy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
- Centre for Astrophysics Research, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands
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- Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAA-CSIC), Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain
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- Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado de correos 321 E-38700, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, Domaine Universitaire, 38406 Saint Martin d’Hères, France
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- Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
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