ASASSN-15lh: A highly super-luminous supernova-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

ASASSN-15lh: A highly super-luminous supernova

Published:2016-01-15 Issue:6270 Volume:351 Page:257-260
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Dong Subo¹,Shappee B. J.²,Prieto J. L.³⁴,Jha S. W.⁵,Stanek K. Z.⁶⁷,Holoien T. W.-S.⁶⁷,Kochanek C. S.⁶⁷,Thompson T. A.⁶⁷,Morrell N.⁸,Thompson I. B.²,Basu U.⁶,Beacom J. F.⁶⁷⁹,Bersier D.¹⁰,Brimacombe J.¹¹,Brown J. S.⁶,Bufano F.¹²,Chen Ping¹³,Conseil E.¹⁴,Danilet A. B.⁶,Falco E.¹⁵,Grupe D.¹⁶,Kiyota S.¹⁷,Masi G.¹⁸,Nicholls B.¹⁹,Olivares E. F.⁴²⁰,Pignata G.⁴²⁰,Pojmanski G.²¹,Simonian G. V.⁶,Szczygiel D. M.²¹,Woźniak P. R.²²

Affiliation:

1. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Yi He Yuan Road 5, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100871, China.

2. Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.

3. Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército 441, Santiago, Chile.

4. Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile.

5. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

6. Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

7. Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

8. Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Observatories, Casilla 601, La Serena, Chile.

9. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

10. Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK.

11. Coral Towers Observatory, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia.

12. INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Via S.Sofia 78, 95123, Catania, Italy.

13. Department of Astronomy, Peking University, Yi He Yuan Road 5, Hai Dian District, 100871, P. R. China.

14. Association Francaise des Observateurs d’Etoiles Variables (AFOEV), Observatoire de Strasbourg 11, rue de l’Université, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.

15. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

16. Department of Earth and Space Science, Morehead State University, 235 Martindale Drive, Morehead, KY 40351, USA.

17. Variable Star Observers League in Japan (VSOLJ), 7-1 Kitahatsutomi, Kamagaya, Chiba 273-0126, Japan.

18. The Virtual Telescope Project, Via Madonna de Loco 47, 03023 Ceccano, Italy.

19. Mt Vernon Observatory, 6 Mt Vernon pl, Nelson, New Zealand.

20. Departamento Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Andres Bello, Av. Republica 252, Santiago, Chile.

21. Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland.

22. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mail Stop B244, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Abstract

The most luminous supernova to date Supernovae are exploding stars at the end of their lives, providing an input of heavy elements and energy into galaxies. Some types have near-identical peak brightness, but in recent years a new class of superluminous supernovae has been found. Dong et al. y report the discovery of ASASSN-15lh (SN 2015L), the most luminous supernova yet found by some margin. It appears to originate in a large quiescent galaxy, in contrast to most super-luminous supernovae, which typically come from star-forming dwarf galaxies. The discovery will provide constraints on models of superluminous supernovae and how they affect their host galaxies. Science , this issue p. 257

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Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation

TAP

SAO

CAS

NASA Hubble Fellowship

MAS

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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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