Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the progenitor sites of six nearby core-collapse supernovae

Justyn R. Maund, Stephen J. Smartt

The search for the progenitors of six core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) in archival HST WFPC2 pre-explosion imaging is presented here. These SNe are 1999an, 1999br, 1999ev, 2000ds,…