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Created talk-page for the AT2018cow article

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Created talk-page for the AT2018cow article - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 01:04, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Was intensity still rising at discovery

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Has there been any calculation of when the SN started ? A graph (or URL) would be great. If we have a narrow time window (for the prediscovery event) could we check the recordings from a single GW detector (even though we normally need two online at the same time) ? Rod57 (talk) 10:09, 4 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Rod57: Good questions - the first detection of AT2018cow seems to be on 16 June 2018[1] - some form of monitoring of the location (RA:244.000927647 / DEC:+22.2680094118)[2] seems to have been done from 11 June 2018 to 3 July 2018, as noted (and cited), in the AT2018cow article - the USA LIGO detectors were down for service upgradings[3] - don't know if any other GW detectors (esp Virgo in Italy) were operational at the time of the event - hope this helps in some way - in any case - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan (talk) 12:40, 4 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Smartt, S. J.; et al. (17 June 2018). "ATLAS18qqn (AT2018cow) - a bright transient spatially coincident with CGCG 137-068 (60 Mpc)". The Astronomer's Telegram (11727). Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. ^ "SN 2018cow". Transient Name Server. International Astronomical Union. 22 June 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  3. ^ Kaplan, Sarah (25 June 2018). "'I've never seen anything like this': Astronomers dazzled by brilliant supernova". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 July 2018.

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@Huntster: FWIW - above image in the AT2018cow article has been removed - *entirely* ok with me to speedy delete image - hope this helps - in any case - Enjoy! :) (This note added to Commons as well.) Drbogdan (talk) 12:37, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

where does the cow part of the name come from?

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Do astronomers attach random words to the names of events like this, or is it random letters? If the latter, does that mean it was a coincidence that this time the letters just happened to spell a word? Thanks, Soap 17:50, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not random. Sequential. Starting with single capital letters: A, B, C, etc. Then two lowercase letters: aa, ab, etc. Then after zz, three lowercase letters: aaa, aab, etc. That's a lot of supernovae! Lithopsian (talk)