Optical Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2011fe in M101 for Nearly 500 Days

Kaicheng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, JuJia Zhang +17

We present well-sampled optical observations of the bright Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) SN 2011fe in M101. Our data, starting from $\sim 16$ days before maximum light and extending to…