The ‘red supergiant problem’: the upper luminosity boundary of Type II supernova progenitors
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa174
Abstract: By comparing the properties of red supergiant (RSG) supernova (SN) progenitors to those of field RSGs, it has been claimed that there is an absence of progenitors with luminosities L above log (L/L⊙) > 5.2. This… read more here.
Keywords: supernova progenitors; upper luminosity; luminosity; red supergiant ... See more keywords