Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe.

Type Ia supernovae are thought to result from a thermonuclear explosion of an accreting white dwarf in a binary system, but little is known of the precise nature of the companion star and the physical properties of the progenitor system. There are two classes of models: double-degenerate (involving...

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Main Authors:	Li, W, Bloom, J, Podsiadlowski, P, Miller, A, Cenko, S, Jha, S, Sullivan, M, Howell, D, Nugent, P, Butler, N, Ofek, E, Kasliwal, M, Richards, J, Stockton, A, Shih, H, Bildsten, L, Shara, M, Bibby, J, Filippenko, A, Ganeshalingam, M, Silverman, J, Kulkarni, SR, Law, N, Poznanski, D, Quimby, R
Format:	Journal article
Language:	English
Published:	2011

Exclusion of a luminous red giant as a companion star to the progenitor of supernova SN 2011fe.

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