Monday, October 15, 2012

Friday October 12th: Informal discussion on SN2009ip

SN2009ip, Luminous Blue Variable or actual Super Nova Type II?
In July of this year a new outburst of SN2009ip was discovered. There has been important discussion among the field on whether this object has indeed become a Core-Colapse Super Nova Type II or not. If you are interested I suggest to read the following papers... they are fun to read, so enjoy!
Jon C. Mauerhan, Nathan Smith, Alexei Filippenko, Kyle Blanchard, Peter Blanchard, Chadwick F. E. Casper, S. Bradley Cenko, Kelsey I. Clubb, Daniel Cohen, Gary Li, & Jeffrey M. Silverman
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6320
J. L. Prieto, J. Brimacombe, A. J. Drake, & S. Howerton
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3347

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