Astro2020 Science White Paper: Are Supernovae the Dust Producer in the Early Universe?

Whether supernovae are a significant source of dust has been a long-standing debate. The large quantities of dust observed in high-redshift galaxies raise a fundamental question as to the origin of dust in the Universe since stars cannot have evolved to the AGB dust-producing phase in high-redshift galaxies. In contrast, supernovae occur within several millions of years after the onset of star formation. This white paper focuses on dust formation in supernova ejecta with US-Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) perspective during the era of JWST and LSST.

Rho, J., Milisavljevic, D., Sarangi, A., Margutti, R., Chornock, R., Rest, A., ... Marion, H.

Rho, Jeonghee||Milisavljevic, Danny||Sarangi, Arkaprabha||Margutti, Raffaella||Chornock, Ryan||Rest, Armin||Graham, Melissa||Wheeler, J Craig||DePoy, Darren||Wang, Lifan||Marshall, Jennifer||Williams, Grant||Street, Rachel||Skidmore, Warren||Haojing, Yan||Bloom, Joshua||Starrfield, Sumner||Lee, Chien-Hsiu||Cowperthwaite, Philip S||Stringfellow, Guy S||Coppejans, Deanne||Terreran, Giacomo||Sravan, Niharika||Geballe, Thomas R||Evans, Aneurin||Marion, Howie

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