3 papers
astro-ph.CO2011
The Progenitor of Supernova 2011dh/PTF11eon in Messier 51
Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Weidong Li, S. Bradley Cenko +12
We have identified a luminous star at the position of supernova (SN) 2011dh/PTF11eon, in pre-SN archival, multi-band images of the nearby, nearly face-on galaxy Messier 51 (M51) ob…
astro-ph.HE2011
An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy
A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, S. B. Cenko +58
Variable X-ray and gamma-ray emission is characteristic of the most extreme physical processes in the Universe, and studying the sources of these energetic photons has been a major…
astro-ph2007
GRB 070201: A possible Soft Gamma Ray Repeater in M31
E. O. Ofek, M. Muno, R. Quimby +13
The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 070201 was a bright short-duration hard-spectrum GRB detected by the Inter-Planetary Network (IPN). Its error quadrilateral, which has an area of 0.124 sq…