X-ray detection of Supernova 1988Z with the ROSAT High Resolution Imager
Abstract
We report the detection of SN 1988Z in X-rays with the ROSAT High Resolution Imager. The inferred X-ray luminosity of about 10^41 erg s^-1 can be well explained by assuming that the supernova occurred in a dense circumstellar medium, consistent with optical observations. SN 1988Z is the most distant supernova yet detected in X-rays.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/280.1.L5
- Bibcode:
- 1996MNRAS.280L...5F
- Keywords:
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- SUPERNOVAE: INDIVIDUAL: SN 1988Z;
- X-RAYS: GENERAL