The very young type Ia supernova 2012cg: Discovery and early-time follow-up observations
- Silverman, J. M.
- Ganeshalingham, M
- Cenko, S Bradley
- Filippenko, Alexei
- Li, Weidong
- Barth, Aaron J
- Carson, Daniel J
- Childress, Michael
- Clubb, Kelsey I
- Cucchiara, Antonino
- Graham, Melissa L
- Marion, George Howie
- Nguyen, My L
- Pei, Liuyi
- Tucker , Bradley
- Vinko, Jozsef
- Wheeler, J Craig
- Worseck, Gabor
Publication date
February 2016
DOI Publisher
IOP Publishing Journal
The Astrophysical JournalAbstract
On 2012 May 17.2 UT, only 1.5 ± 0.2 days after explosion, we discovered SN 2012cg, a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) in NGC4424 (d ≈ 15Mpc). As a result of the newly modified strategy employed by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, a sequence of filtere
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