OSIRIS Hα imaging of the NGC 2770 supernova factory and its satellite NGC 2770B

Bibcode
2013RMxAC..42..107G
Gorosabel, J.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Thöne, C. C.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; Ferrero, P.; Cepa, J.
Bibliographical reference

Fourth Science Meeting with the GTC (Eds. C. Muñoz-Tuñón & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 42, pp. 107-107 (2013) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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2013
Number of authors
6
IAC number of authors
2
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0
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0
Description
In the last 12 years NGC 2770 hosted 2 standard supernovae (SNe) and one X-ray transient event (SN2008D) similar to a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB). Given the close (27 Mpc) distance of NGC 2770, we could resolve with the OSIRIS tunable filter (TF) the 3 explosion sites in Hα. We also show Hα data of its satellite galaxy NGC 2770B, one of the least metallic galaxies in the local Universe.
Type
Non-refereed
Supernovae

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