Light Echoes of Ancient Transients with the Blanco CTIO 4m Telescope
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-02-13 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
For over a century, light echoes have been observed around variable stars and transients. The discovery of centuries-old light echoes from supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud has allowed the spectroscopic characterization of these events using modern instrumentation, even in the complete absence of any visual record of those events. Here we review the pivotal role the Blanco 4m telescope played in these discoveries.
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@article{arxiv.1502.03705,
title = {Light Echoes of Ancient Transients with the Blanco CTIO 4m Telescope},
author = {A. Rest and B. Sinnott and D. L. Welch and J. L. Prieto and F. B. Bianco and T. Matheson and R. C. Smith and N. B. Suntzeff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03705},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages, 7 figures, conference paper for "Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere" conference proceedings