Abstract
With the advent of new wide-field, high-cadence optical transient
surveys, our understanding of the diversity of core-collapse supernovae
has grown tremendously in the last decade. However, the pre-supernova
evolution of massive stars, that sets the physical backdrop to these
violent events, is theoretically not well understood and difficult to
probe observationally. Here we report the discovery of the supernova
iPTF13dqy = SN 2013fs, a mere ~3 hr after explosion. Our rapid follow-up
observations, which include multiwavelength photometry and extremely
early (beginning at ~6 hr post-explosion) spectra, map the distribution
of material in the immediate environment (
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 510-521 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Nature Physics |
Early online date | 13 Feb 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Early online date - 13 Feb 2017 |
Keywords
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena