The name "SN" came from the observational astronomy data and deals with an instant appearance of a very bright star, with luminosity of about tens millions of the solar one.
V.S.Imshennik (ITEP) and O.G.Ryazhskaya (INR RAS)
"Rotating Collapsar and Possible Interpretation of the LSD Neutrino Signal From SN 1987A", the talk given at the Session of the Presidium of RAS in April, 2004 .
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