SN 2006gy: Discovery of the Most Luminous Supernova Ever Recorded, Powered by the Death of an Extremely Massive Star like η Carinae

Nathan Smith(University of California, Berkeley), Charles Hansen(University of California, Berkeley), J. C. Wheeler(The University of Texas at Austin), J. M. Silverman(University of California, Berkeley), R. J. Foley(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), R. Chornock(University of California, Berkeley), J. S. Bloom(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), D. Pooley(University of California, Berkeley), Weidong Li(University of California, Berkeley), R. Quimby(California Institute of Technology), A. V. Filippenko(University of California, Berkeley)
The Astrophysical Journal
August 31, 2007
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