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PTF11iqb: Cool supergiant mass loss that bridges the gap between Type IIn and normal supernovae

Nathan Smith, Jon C. Mauerhan, S. Bradley Cenko +16

PTF11iqb was initially classified as a TypeIIn event caught very early after explosion. It showed narrow Wolf-Rayet (WR) spectral features on day 2, but the narrow emission weakene…