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Peculiar core-collapse supernova breaks the mold with a long, dim plateau

Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed the Lijiang 2.4-m telescope to perform optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of a core-collapse Type IIP supernova designated SN 2024abfl. Results of the observational campaign, published April 2 on the arXiv, preprin...

Peculiar core-collapse supernova breaks the mold with a long, dim plateau
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Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed the Lijiang 2.4-m telescope to perform optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of a core-collapse Type IIP supernova designated SN 2024abfl. Results of the observational campaign, published April 2 on the arXiv, preprint server, deliver essential information regarding the origin of this peculiar supernova.

Originally published at Phys.org

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