A luminous, blue progenitor system for the type Iax supernova 2012Z

Curtis McCully, Saurabh W. Jha (), Ryan J. Foley, Lars Bildsten, Wen-fai Fong, Robert P. Kirshner, G. H. Marion, Adam G. Riess and Maximilian D. Stritzinger
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Curtis McCully: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
Saurabh W. Jha: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 136 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
Ryan J. Foley: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Lars Bildsten: University of California
Wen-fai Fong: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Robert P. Kirshner: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
G. H. Marion: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street
Adam G. Riess: Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
Maximilian D. Stritzinger: Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Nature, 2014, vol. 512, issue 7512, 54-56

Abstract: The detection of the luminous, blue progenitor system of the type Iax supernova 2012Z suggests that this supernova was the explosion of a white dwarf accreting material from a helium-star companion.

Date: 2014
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