Bibcode
DOI
Whitney, A. R.; Shapiro, I. I.; Rius, A.; Schmidt, B. P.; Rogers, A. E. E.; Perez, E.; Mantovani, F.; Guirado, J. C.; Elosegui, P.; Alberdi, A.; Marcaide, J. M.; Ratner, M. I.
Bibliographical reference
Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 424, no. 1, p. L25-L27
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1994
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24
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19
Description
Supernova 1993J (SN 1993J) in M81, now classified as Type IIb, is a
strongly emitting radio supernova whose size can be resolved and whose
growth can be monitored with the technique of very long baseline
interferometry (VLBI). The results could provide important information
about the circumstellar matter and the degree of asymmetry of the
explosion. For several models of the emission of the radio supernova, we
report estimates of its angular sizes 29 and 36 days after explosion at
the wavelengths of 3.6 and 1.3 cm, respectively. These results, which
correspond to our first epochs in an ongoing effort to determine the
super-nova structure and its growth, slightly favor an optically thick
uniform disk model, given the recently derived Cepheid distance to M81
and the estimated maximum supernova expansion speed. Further VLBI
observations, combined with the expansion-speed data, may yield an
independent estimate of the distance to M81.