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Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst
Long-duration γ-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from ultra-relativistic jets launched from the collapsing cores of dying massive stars. They are characterized by an initial phase of bright and highly variable radi...
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Author Correction: The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most type II supernovae
In the version of this Article originally published, the authors Pablo Huijse and Pablo Huentelemu were mistakenly affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and their affiliation to the Universit...
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The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most type II supernovae
Type II supernovae (SNe II) originate from the explosion of hydrogen-rich supergiant massive stars. Their first electromagnetic signature is the shock breakout (SBO), a short-lived phenomenon that can last for...
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The lowest-metallicity type II supernova from the highest-mass red supergiant progenitor
Red supergiants have been confirmed as the progenitor stars of the majority of hydrogen-rich type II supernovae1. However, while such stars are observed with masses >25 M⊙ (ref. 2), detections of >18 M⊙ progenito...
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Publisher Correction: Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm
In the version of this Article originally published the Fig. 6 y axis label read 'Mej' but should have read 'MNi'. This has now been corrected.
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A population of highly energetic transient events in the centres of active galaxies
Recent all-sky surveys have led to the discovery of new types of transients. These include stars disrupted by the central supermassive black hole, and supernovae that are 10–100 times more energetic than typic...
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A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source
Observations and modelling of an optical transient counterpart to a gravitational-wave event and γ-ray burst reveal that neutron-star mergers produce gravitational waves and radioactively powered kilonovae, an...
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Hydrogen-rich supernovae beyond the neutrino-driven core-collapse paradigm
Type II supernovae are the final stage of massive stars (above 8 M ⊙) which retain part of their hydrogen-rich envelope at the moment of explosion. They typically eject up to 15 M
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Correction: Corrigendum: The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole
Nature Astronomy 1, 0002 (2016); published 12 December 2016; corrected 22 December 2016. In the version of this Letter originally published the estimated energy radiated by ASASSN-15lh up to 25 May 2016 was in...
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The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole
When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart1. For a star with the mass of the Sun (M⊙) and a non-spinning black hole with a mass <108M⊙, the tidal radius lies ou...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions
Nature 502, 346–349 (2013); doi:10.1038/nature12569 In this Letter, we have identified an important error affecting Fig. 4 and Extended Data Fig. 6, as well as the values of some parameters derived from our mo...
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Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions
Observations of two slow-to-fade super-luminous supernovae are reported; both show relatively fast rise times and blue colours, which are incompatible with pair-instability models.
