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DES15E2mlf: a spectroscopically confirmed superluminous supernova that exploded 3.5 Gyr after the big bang
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We present the Dark Energy Survey (DES) discovery of DES15E2mlf, the most distant superluminous supernova (SLSN) spectroscopically confirmed to date. The light curves and Gemini spectroscopy of DES15E2mlf indicate that it is a Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) at z = 1.861 (a lookback time of ~10 Gyr) and peaking at M_AB = -22.3 +/- 0.1 mag. Given the high redshift, our data probe the rest-frame ultraviolet (1400-3500 A) properties of the SN, finding velocity of the C III feature change...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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National Science Foundation
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David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal website
- Volume:
- 470
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 4241-4250
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-2966
- ISSN:
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0035-8711
- Source identifiers:
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727849
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- Jarvis et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
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