Supernova DES15E2mlf (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Supernova DES15E2mlf

Caption

The yellow arrow marks the superluminous supernova DES15E2mlf in this false-color image of the surrounding field. North is up and east is left. This image was observed with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) gri-band filters mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope on Dec. 28, 2015, around the time when the supernova reached its peak luminosity.

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Observers: D. Gerdes and S. Jouvel

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