The very young type Ia supernova 2012cg: Discovery and early-time follow-up observations

Date

2012

Authors

Silverman, J. M.
Ganeshalingham, M
Cenko, S Bradley
Filippenko, Alexei
Li, Weidong
Barth, Aaron J
Carson, Daniel J
Childress, Michael
Clubb, Kelsey I
Cucchiara, Antonino

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

Abstract

On 2012 May 17.2 UT, only 1.5 ± 0.2 days after explosion, we discovered SN 2012cg, a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in NGC4424 (d ≈ 15Mpc). As a result of the newly modified strategy employed by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, a sequence of filtered

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Keywords: supernovae: general; supernovae: individual: SN 2012cg

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Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Journal article

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Open Access

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