{"paper":{"title":"SN 2009md: Another faint supernova from a low mass progenitor","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.CO"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.SR","authors_text":"A. Campillay, A. Gal-Yam, A. Pastorello, A. Stephens, E. Kankare, F. Bufano, F. Salgado, G. Leloudas, I. Agnoletto, I. Arcavi, J.J. Eldridge, J.R. Maund, J. Sollerman, K. Maguire, M. Ergon, M. Fraser, M.-T. Botticella, M. Turatto, R.M. Crockett, S. Benetti, S.J. Smartt, S. Mattila, S. Taubenberger, S. Valenti","submitted_at":"2010-11-30T14:40:04Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present adaptive optics imaging of the core collapse supernova (SN) 2009md, which we use together with archival \\emph{Hubble Space Telescope} data to identify a coincident progenitor candidate. We find the progenitor to have an absolute magnitude of $V = -4.63^{+0.3}_{-0.4}$ mag and a colour of $V-I = 2.29^{+0.25}_{-0.39}$ mag, corresponding to a progenitor luminosity of log $L$/L$_{\\odot}$ $\\sim4.54\\pm0.19$ dex. Using the stellar evolution code STARS, we find this to be consistent with a red supergiant progenitor with $M = 8.5_{-1.5}^{+6.5}$ M$_{\\odot}$. The photometric and spectroscopic e"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1011.6558","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}