Detection of circumstellar material in a normal type Ia supernova.
Type Ia supernovae are important cosmological distance indicators. Each of these bright supernovae supposedly results from the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star that, after accreting material from a companion star, exceeds some mass limit, but the true nature of the progenitor star syste...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2007
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