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Obscured Supernovae in Starburst Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Seppo Mattila ,
Peter Meikle ,
Robert Greimel  and
Petri Väisänen
Seppo Mattila
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK, email: s.mattila@qub.ac.uk
Peter Meikle
Affiliation:
Imperial College London, London, UK
Robert Greimel
Affiliation:
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Spain
Petri Väisänen
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
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About one core-collapse supernova (CCSN) is expected to explode every 5–10 years in the nuclear regions of M 82 and other nearby starburst galaxies. In luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) such as the interacting system Arp 299 (NGC 3690 + IC 0694) at least one CCSN can be expected every year. Due to the high dust extinction most of these SNe have remained undetected. Here we show results from two near-IR searches we have recently carried out to detect obscured SNe in nearby starburst galaxies and LIRGs.

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