The diversity of Type II supernova versus the similarity in their progenitors

The authors acknowledge the ASASSN, La Silla Quest, and LOSS surveys for discovering new SNe that made this study possible. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1313484. MDS gratefully acknowledges generous support provided by the Danish Agency for Science and Technology and Innovation realized through a Sapere Aude Level 2 grant. MF is supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360. SJS acknowledges funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC Grant agreement No. [291222] and STFC grants ST/I001123/1 and ST/L000709/1. AVF's group at UC Berkeley is grateful for financial assistance from NSF grant AST-1211916, the TABASGO Foundation, Gary and Cynthia Bengier, and the Christopher R. Redlich Fund. This work was supported by the NSF under grants PHY-1125915 and AST-1109174. M.S. acknowledges support from EU/FP7-ERC grant no [615929]. This paper is based on observations made with the Swift, LCOGT, Gemini, and Keck Observatories; we thank their respective staffs for excellent assistance. The W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and NASA; the observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. Based on observations collected at the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern hemisphere, Chile as part of PESSTO, (the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects Survey) ESO program ID 188.D-3003.

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