Abell 1689 CAND-10658
- Type
- Supernova, IIn (photometric)
- Status
- Candidate
- Lensing
- Single image, magnified
- Lensing cluster
- Abell 1689 (z = 0.187)
- Redshift
- 0.94
- Position
- 13:11:22.31 -01:21:45.0
Core-collapse supernova behind Abell 1689, one of six in the near-infrared supernova searches compiled by Petrushevska et al. (2016); the cluster brightens it by about 0.58 mag according to the lens models used there. Classified from its light curve. Host redshift photometric.
Papers
- Petrushevska et al. (2016)
High-redshift supernova rates measured with the gravitational telescope A 1689