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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe

Figure 2

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Artist's conception of three popular SLSN scenarios: shock-interacting, magnetar-powered and pair-instability supernova. SLSN Gaia16apd is most likely a shock-interacting supernova in which radiating shock waves easily produce enormous amounts of UV light.

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