California Institute of Technology | GROWTH | 2019 Jan 10
What Astronomers are Gleaning from a Big Blast Called "Cow"
California Institute of Technology | 2019 Jan 10
Telescopes around the globe and in space raced to witness a dramatic stellar explosion
On June 16, 2018, a brilliant stellar explosion unlike any seen before went off in the skies, quickly capturing the attention of astronomers around the globe. First spotted by the ATLAS survey in Hawaii, the event was dubbed AT2018cow through a randomized naming system, and soon earned the nickname "Cow." Just three days after exploding, Cow had become 10 times brighter than a typical supernova—a powerful explosion that heralds the death of a massive star. ...
In the hours, days, and weeks after the event, telescopes on the ground and in space set their sights on Cow, witnessing a dramatic increase in brightness across the electromagnetic spectrum, from high-energy X-rays to low-energy radio waves. ...
Holy Cow! Mysterious Blast Studied with NASA Telescopes
NASA | JPL-Caltech | 2019 Jan 10
Researchers Observed Mysterious Behavior of 'The Cow'
Texas Tech University | 2019 Jan 10
Astronomers Study Mysterious New Type of Cosmic Blast
National Radio Astronomy Observatory | 2019 Jan 10
Unusual Supernova Opens a Rare Window on the Collapse of a Star
National Optical Astronomy Observatory | 2019 Jan 10
Birth of a Black Hole or Neutron Star Captured for the First Time
W.M. Keck Observatory | 2019 Jan 10
Team of Telescopes Finds X-ray Engine Inside Mysterious Supernova
ESA | Space Science | Science & Technology | INTEGRAL | XMM-Newton | 2019 Jan 10
The Cow: Discovery of a Luminous, Hot, and Rapidly Evolving Transient ~ S.J. Prentice et al
- Astrophysical Journal Letters 865(1):L3 (2018 Sep 20) DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aadd90
arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1807.05965 > 16 Jul 2018 (v1), 29 Aug 2018 (v3)
- Monthly Notices of the RAS: Letters 480(1):L146 (Oct 2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/sly235
arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1807.06369 > 17 Jul 2018 (v1), 03 Aug 2018 (v2)
or Disruption of a Star by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole? ~ Daniel A. Perley et al
- Monthly Notices of the RAS (online 22 Dec 2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty3420
arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1808.00969 > 02 Aug 2018 (v1), 12 Aug 2018 (v2)
Inner Workings of the Most Luminous Fast-evolving Optical Transients ~ Raffaella Margutti et al
- arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1810.10720 > 25 Oct 2018
- arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1810.10880 > 25 Oct 2018 (v1), 05 Jan 2019 (v52)
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