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Discovery of a Rapid, Luminous Nova in NGC 300 by the KMTNet Supernova Program

  • Authors: John Antoniadis, Dae-Sik Moon, Yuan Qi Ni, Dong-Jin Kim, Yongseok Lee, and Hilding Neilson

2017 The Astrophysical Journal 844 160.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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KSP-OT-201509a as recorded by KSP. Image (a) is a B-band image of NGC 300, centered at its core. North is up and east is left. Images (b)–(d) are I-band images with the same orientation. (b) is an image taken ∼12 minutes before detection and (c) is the first frame in which KSP-OT-201509a is confidently detected. (d) shows the source at its maximum I-band brightness.

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