Talk:SN 2018cow

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

Was intensity still rising at discovery
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)
 * Good questions - the first detection of AT2018cow seems to be on 16 June 2018 - some form of monitoring of the location (RA:244.000927647 / DEC:+22.2680094118) 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 - 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)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion: You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 09:51, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * NASA-AT2018cow-NeutronStar-BlackHole-20190110.jpg
 * 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)

where does the cow part of the name come from?
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)
 * 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)