The Progenitors of Recent Core-Collapse Supernovae
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We present the results of our analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST ) and deep ground-based images to isolate the massive progenitor stars of the two recent core-collapse supernovae 2008bk and 2008cn. The identification of the progenitors is facilitated in one of these two cases by high-precision astrometry based on our HST imaging of SNe at late times.
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The Progenitors of Recent Core-Collapse Supernovae
We present the results of our analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and deep groundbased images to isolate the massive progenitor stars of the two recent core-collapse supernovae 2008bk and 2008cn. The identification of the progenitors is facilitated in one of these two cases by high-precision astrometry based on our HST imaging of SNe at late times.
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