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Supernova Progenitors

Supernova Progenitors is the class of stars or stellar systems in specific evolutionary states whose physical properties (such as mass, composition, and, where relevant, binary configuration) render them the immediate precursors of supernova explosions.

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MODULES FOR EXPERIMENTS IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS (MESA): BINARIES, PULSATIONS, AND EXPLOSIONS

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2015 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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Discovery of a supernova explosion at half the age of the Universe

S. Perlmutter, G. Aldering, M. Della Valle et al. · Nature · 1998 · 2.5K citations

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Double white dwarfs as progenitors of R Coronae Borealis stars and Type I supernovae

R. F. Webbink · The Astrophysical Journal · 1984 · 2.3K citations

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How Massive Single Stars End Their Life

Alexander Heger, Chris L. Fryer, S. E. Woosley et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2003 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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The absolute magnitudes of Type IA supernovae

M. M. Phillips · The Astrophysical Journal · 1993 · 2.1K citations

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  1. AV
    A. V. Filippenko

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    180 publications · 21.9K citations

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    A. Gal‐Yam

    Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

    143 publications · 16.6K citations

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  3. PA
    P. A. Mazzali

    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany

    130 publications · 16.9K citations

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    K. Nomoto

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    108 publications · 20.6K citations

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  5. SJ
    S. J. Smartt

    Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

    99 publications · 12.5K citations

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    Garching, Germany

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    869 publications

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  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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    1.3K publications

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  3. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

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    1.4K publications

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  4. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    109 h-index

    913 publications

    121.5K citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    94 h-index

    738 publications

    85K citations

  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    86 h-index

    495 publications

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  7. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

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    508 publications

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    Padua, Italy

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

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  4. Nature

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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