Journal article
Light echoes from ancient supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Abstract
Catch up with KeplerWe may soon be able to see the slight seen by Tycho and Kepler, but 400 years later. In 1940 Fritz Zwicky, the man who coined the term ‘supernova’ for massive star explosions, suggested that it should be possible to see echo light from historical supernovae centuries after the event. Data from the SuperMACHO survey, which is monitoring the millions of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud for the brightening associated with …
Authors
Rest A; Suntzeff NB; Olsen K; Prieto JL; Smith RC; Welch DL; Becker A; Bergmann M; Clocchiatti A; Cook K
Journal
Nature, Vol. 438, No. 7071, pp. 1132–1134
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2005
DOI
10.1038/nature04365
ISSN
0028-0836