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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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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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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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Identification of antibacterial peptides from endophytic microbiome
Endophytes, microorganisms living inside plant tissues, are promising producers of lead compounds for the pharmaceutical industry. However, the majority of endophytes are unculturable and therefore inaccessibl...
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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.
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An antimicrobial peptide from endophytic Fusarium tricinctum of Rhododendron tomentosum Harmaja
Endophytic microbes have attracted considerable attention as a completely new source of pharmaceuticals in recent years. An endophytic Fusarium tricinctum was isolated from Rhododendron tomentosum, a shrub that i...
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A giant outburst two years before the core-collapse of a massive star
When a bright optical transient was discovered in galaxy UGC 4904 in October 2004 the signs were that it was big enough and bright enough to be a supernova. Further work suggested that it was not quite on that...
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Ganciclovir prophylaxis after lung and heart–lung transplantation
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection causes both acute and chronic allograft damage. The aim of this study was to analyze the utility of ganciclovir in preventing CMV infection in pulmonary allografts. Thirty five...
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175. Ergebnisse nach operativer Behandlung der Lungenmetastasen
A total of 59 patients with hematogenous pulmonary metastases were operated in 1955–1977. The 5-year survival rate was 15% for the whole series and 32% for the patients treated in 1972–1977. The 5-year prognos...
