SN 2009ip

MNRAS, 2013. Co-author.

A famous unstable giant star that flared up for years, then seemed to finally explode. The paper documents its third outburst.

What I did

  • Co-authored as an undergraduate in Alex Filippenko’s supernova group, after 120+ hours of remote observing on Lick Observatory’s Nickel Telescope.

What happened

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Read the paper · Journal version

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