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Birth of Supernova Remnant 1987A

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

George Sonneborn
Affiliation:
NASA&Apos;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 681, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
C. S. J. Pun
Affiliation:
NASA&Apos;s Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 681, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Peter Garnavich
Affiliation:
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Robert Kirshner
Affiliation:
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Abstract

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Recent observations of SN 1987A made with HST/STIS show that the shock interaction of supernova debris with the innermost edge of the circumstellar ring has begun.

Type
Part 2. Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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