Supernova polarimetry with the VLT: lessons from asymmetry

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Sep 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002msngr.109...47w&link_type=abstract

The Messenger (ISSN 0722-6691), No. 109, p. 47 - 51 (September 2002)

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Supernovae, Polarimetry

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The acquisition of systematic supernova polarization data has led to remarkable new insights. It seems likely that all core-collapse supernovae are substantially asymmetric. They explode by means of bi-polar flow associated with the newborn neutron star. This discovery may, in turn, give new insights into more exotic jet-induced events like gamm-ray bursts. The asymmetries observed in Type Ia supernovae may finally yield direct observational evidence that they occur in binary systems, as long assumed, and clues to the combustion mechanism. Understanding these asymmetries may be necessary to properly interpret future data on cosmologically distant Type Ia's.

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