On the progenitor of SN 2008ax in NGC 4490

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W. Li, University of California, Berkeley (UCB); S. D. Van Dyk, Spitzer Science Center, California Institute of Technology; J.-C. Cuillandre, Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) Corporation; and A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, R. Chornock, N. Smith, and X. Wang (all UCB), report that they have isolated a possible progenitor for the young type-II SN 2008ax in Hubble Space Telescope images of NGC 4490 (Snapshot program 5446; GO/DD program 9042) taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).

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