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Jan 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995natur.373...44m&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 373, Issue 6509, pp. 44-45 (1995).
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SUPERNOVA explosions are poorly understood, partly because of difficulties in modelling them theoretically1, and partly because there have been no supernovae observed in our Galaxy since the invention of the telescope. But the recent discovery2 of supernova SN1993J in the nearby galaxy M81 offers an opportunity to investigate the evolution of the remnant, and its interaction with the surrounding interstellar medium, at high resolution. Here we present radio observations of SN1993J, made using very-long-baseline interferometry, which show the development of a shell structure. This 8-month-old radio shell is the youngest ever discovered in a supernova. The data suggest that the supernova explosion and the expanding shell of the remnant have nearly spherical symmetry, with small deviations where some parts of the shell are brighter than others. If these deviations arise because of variations in the density of the shell, this may reconcile earlier reports of symmetric radio emission3 with the observed optical asymmetry4,5, as the density variations could easily cause the latter. We infer that the radio emission is generated at the interface6-9, where the surrounding gas is shocked by the ejecta.
Alberdi Antonio
Baath L.
Davis Raymond Jr.
de Bruyn Ger A.
Diamond PH
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