Discovery, observations and theory of over luminous supernovae and peculiar transients

Modern wide-field imaging transient search projects led to the discovery of a new class of rare, over-luminous stellar explosions. Events like SN 2005ap (Quimby et al. 2007a), SN 2006gy (Quimby 2006; Smith et al. 2007), SN 2006tf (Quimby, Castro \& Mondol 2007; Quimby et al. 2007b; Smith et al....

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Main Author: Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-881