Early radio and X-ray observations of the youngest nearby Type Ia supernova PTF11kly (SN2011fe)

On 2011 August 24 (UT) the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) discovered PTF11kly (SN 2011fe), the youngest and most nearby Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in decades. We followed this event up in the radio (centimeter and millimeter bands) and X-ray bands, starting about a day after the estimated explosion...

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Main Authors: Horesh, A, Kulkarni, SR, Fox, D, Carpenter, J, Kasliwal, M, Ofek, E, Quimby, R, Gal-Yam, A, Cenko, S, De Bruyn, A, Kamble, A, Wijers, R, Van Der Horst, A, Kouveliotou, C, Podsiadlowski, P, Sullivan, M, Maguire, K, Howell, D, Nugent, P, Gehrels, N, Law, N, Poznanski, D, Shara, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2012