ON THE NATURE OF THE PROGENITOR OF THE Type Ia SN2011fe IN M101
ON THE NATURE OF THE PROGENITOR OF THE Type Ia SN2011fe IN M101
The explosion of a Type Ia supernova, SN2011fe, in the nearby Pinwheel galaxy (M101 at 6.4 Mpc) provides an opportunity to study pre-explosion images and search for the progenitor, which should consist of a white dwarf (WD), possibly surrounded by an accretion disk, in orbit with another star. We report …