On dying stars : supernovae and their progenitors

In the last fifteen years, searches for the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) in archival images have provided the crucial "missing link" between the final stages in the evolution of a massive star, and its explosion as a core-collapse SN. In this thesis, I present new detectio...

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Main Author: Fraser, Morgan
Published: Queen's University Belfast 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579701