The Preexplosion Environments and the Progenitor of SN 2023ixf from the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX)

Supernova (SN) 2023ixf was discovered on 2023 May 19. The host galaxy, M101, was observed by the Hobby–Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment collaboration over the period 2020 April 30–2020 July 10, using the Visible Integral-field Replicable Unit Spectrograph (3470 ≲ λ ≲ 5540 Å) on the 10 m Hobby...

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Main Authors: Chenxu Liu, Xinlei Chen, Xinzhong Er, Gregory R. Zeimann, József Vinkó, J. Craig Wheeler, Erin Mentuch Cooper, Dustin Davis, Daniel J. Farrow, Karl Gebhardt, Helong Guo, Gary J. Hill, Lindsay House, Wolfram Kollatschny, Fanchuan Kong, Brajesh Kumar, Xiangkun Liu, Sarah Tuttle, Michael Endl, Parker Duke, William D. Cochran, Jinghua Zhang, Xiaowei Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0da8