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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2012
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