Browsing by Keyword "supernovae: individual (PS1-11bam)"

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    • Ultra-Luminous Supernovae as a New Probe of the Interstellar Medium in Distant Galaxies 

      Berger, Edo; Chornock, R; Lunnan, R.; Foley, R.; Czekala, Ian Philip; Rest, A.; Leibler, C.; Soderberg, Alicia M.; Roth, K.; Narayan, G.; Huber, M. E.; Milisavljevic, Danny; Sanders, Nathan Edward; Drout, M.; Margutti, R.; Kirshner, Robert P.; Marion, G. H.; Challis, P. J.; Riess, A. G.; Smartt, S. J.; Burgett, W. S.; Hodapp, K. W.; Heasley, J. N.; Kaiser, N.; Kudritzki, R.-P.; Magnier, E. A.; McCrum, M.; Price, P. A.; Smith, K.; Tonry, J. L.; Wainscoat, R. J. (IOP Publishing, 2012)
      We present the Pan-STARRS1 discovery and light curves, and follow-up MMT and Gemini spectroscopy of an ultra-luminous supernova (ULSN; dubbed PS1-11bam) at a redshift of z = 1.566 with a peak brightness of MUV ≈ −22.3 mag. ...