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

Nathan Smith(Baylor College of Medicine), 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(Geophysical Laboratory), J. S. Bloom(University of California, Berkeley), D. Pooley(University of California, Berkeley), Weidong Li(University of California, Berkeley), R. Quimby(California Institute of Technology), A. V. Filippenko(University of California System)
The Astrophysical Journal
August 31, 2007
10.1086/519949
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