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What type was SN 1987A?

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A comparison is made of the light and colour curves of the SN 1987A in the first 280 days with the mean properties of type II supernovae. The conclusion is that even though it has H lines, and was not a typical type II supernova, but a peculiar object from a photometric point of view. The implications for inclusion of SN 1987A in the context of the usual Minkowski-Zwicky classification are explicitly discussed.

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Da Silva, L.A.L. What type was SN 1987A?. Astrophys Space Sci 165, 255–260 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653295

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