On the progenitor of the Type Ic SN 2013dk in the Antennae galaxies
On the progenitor of the Type Ic SN 2013dk in the Antennae galaxies
Abstract We report the results of our search for the progenitor candidate of SN 2013dk, a Type Ic supernova (SN) that exploded in the Antennae galaxy system. We compare pre-explosion Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archival images with SN images obtained using adaptive optics at the ESO Very Large Telescope. We …