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gary
25-10-2022, 10:29 AM
In a 13 October 2022 article published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, Davies et. al. make a prediction that red
supergiants (RSG) will undergo "dramatic photometric variability in the
optical and infrared in the weeks-to-months before core-collapse" and
exploding as a type II-P supernova.

Paper here :-
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/517/1/1483/6759199