The dusty red supergiant progenitor and the local environment of the Type II SN 2023ixf in M101

Ze-Xi Niu, Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund +3

As one of the closest supernovae (SNe) in the last decade, SN 2023ixf is an unprecedented target to investigate the progenitor star that exploded. However, there is still significa…