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Title: A strong ultraviolet pulse from a newborn type Ia supernova

Journal Article · · Nature (London)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14440· OSTI ID:1471327
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  1. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  2. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Goleta, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  3. Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel)
  4. Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA (United States)
  5. Stockholm Univ. (Sweden)
  6. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  7. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  8. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Type Ia supernovae are destructive explosions of carbon-oxygen white dwarfs. Although they are used empirically to measure cosmological distances, the nature of their progenitors remains mysterious. One of the leading progenitor models, called the single degenerate channel, hypothesizes that a white dwarf accretes matter from a companion star and the resulting increase in its central pressure and temperature ignites thermonuclear explosion. Here in this paper, we report observations with the Swift Space Telescope of strong but declining ultraviolet emission from a type Ia supernova within four days of its explosion. This emission is consistent with theoretical expectations of collision between material ejected by the supernova and a companion star, and therefore provides evidence that some type Ia supernovae arise from the single degenerate channel.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1471327
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-29046
Journal Information:
Nature (London), Vol. 521, Issue 7552; ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 135 works
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