List of most distant supernovae is a list of supernovae.
This list contains selected examples of supernovae so far discovered.
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Name | Distance | Type | Notes | |
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SN 1000+0216 | z=3.8993 | Superluminous supernova | [1] | |
DES16C2nm | z=2.0 | Spectroscopically confirmed distance | [2] [3] [4] | |
SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson) | z=1.914 | Type Ia supernova | [5] | |
SN SCP-0401 (Mingus) | z=1.71 | Type Ia supernova | First observed in 2004, it was not until 2013 that it could be identified as a Type-Ia SN. | [6] [7] |
SN 1997ff | z=1.7 | Type Ia supernova | Its distance was determined in 2001, was the most distant supernova at that time. | [8] [9] [10] |
Supernova Primo | z=1.55 | Type Ia supernova | [11] | |
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Type | Name | Distance | Date | Notes | |
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Supernova, any type | SN 1000+0216 | z=3.8993 | 2012 | [1] [12] | |
Supernova, any type, spectroscopically confirmed | DES16C2nm | z=2.0 | 2018 | Discovered in 2016, spectroscopically observed in 2017, analysis confirmed in 2018 | [2] [3] [4] |
Type Ia supernova | SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson) | z=1.914 | 2013 | Named after U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, from its codename fragment "Will" | [5] [13] |
Type Ib supernova | |||||
Type Ic supernova | |||||
Type I supernova, any subclass | SN Wilson (SN UDS10Wil) | z=1.914 | 2013 | This is a Type Ia supernova | [5] [13] |
Type II-P supernova | |||||
Type II-L supernova | |||||
Type IIb supernova | |||||
Type IIn supernova | |||||
Type II supernova, any subclass | |||||
Type III supernova | |||||
Superluminous supernova (SLSN), any type | |||||
Superluminous supernova type 1 (SLSN-I), any subclass | |||||
Superluminous supernova type 1c (SLSN-Ic) | |||||
Superluminous supernova type 2 (SLSN-II) | |||||
This is a successive list of supernovae that were known at one time as the most distant supernova ever.
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Name | Distance | Date | Notes | |
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SN 1000+0216 | z=3.8993 | 2012— | [1] [12] | |
SN 19941 [CFHTLS.SNLS] | z=2.357 | 2009— | A type IIn supernova discovered from legacy survey data of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in 2009. One of three supernovae discovered in the archive search. | [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] |
SN 1997ff | z=1.71 | 2001— | A type Ia supernova, discovered in 1997, its distance was determined in 2001. | [8] [19] [9] |
SN 1988U | z=0.31 | 1988– | Located in the galaxy cluster AC118 | [20] [21] [22] [23] |