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DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PROGENITOR OF SUPERNOVA iPTF13bvn

DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PROGENITOR OF SUPERNOVA iPTF13bvn

ABSTRACT Supernova (SN) iPTF13bvn in NGC 5806 was the first Type Ib SN to have been tentatively associated with a progenitor in pre-explosion images. We performed deep ultraviolet (UV) and optical Hubble Space Telescope observations of the SN site ∼740 days after explosion. We detect an object in the optical …