Written by an international team of experts, this set of tutorial reviews provides a coherent and accessible summary of the current state of supernova research in all of its facets. The newly detected gamma-ray bursts are discussed in this context. While primarily addressing astrophysicists and astronomers, this book will also be of interest to cosmologists and nuclear physicists working on supernova-related issues.
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Written by an international team of experts, this set of tutorial reviews provides a coherent and accessible summary of the current state of supernova research in all of its facets. The newly detected gamma-ray bursts are discussed in this context. While primarily addressing astrophysicists and astronomers, this book will also be of interest to cosmologists and nuclear physicists working on supernova-related issues.
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Abstract. The available historical records of supernovae occurring in our own Galaxy over the past two thousand years are reviewed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wind interaction model, photoionized layer, circumstellar shock, afterglow observations, afterglow emission, hypernova model, afterglow data, radio light curves, afterglow spectra, photospheric phase, afterglow light curves, supernova emission, afterglow era, afterglow spectrum, circumstellar interaction, synthetic spectrum calculations, diffractive scintillation, progenitor scenarios, optical afterglows, fireball model, supernova debris, reverse shock, afterglow radiation, radio afterglows, radioactive tail Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Monte Carlo, Cambridge University Press, International Workshop, Crab Nebula, Hubble Space Telescope, Nino Panagia, European Southern Observatory, Huntsville Symposium, Milky Way, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, The Underlying Model, Examination of Plate, Italy Abstract, National Science Foundation, Space Telescope Science Institute, Supernova Interaction, Supernova Rates, Very Large Array, World Scientific, Big Bang, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, East Asia, Interplanetary Network New!
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Abstract. The available historical records of supernovae occurring in our own Galaxy over the past two thousand years are reviewed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
wind interaction model, photoionized layer, circumstellar shock, afterglow observations, afterglow emission, hypernova model, afterglow data, radio light curves, afterglow spectra, photospheric phase, afterglow light curves, supernova emission, afterglow era, afterglow spectrum, circumstellar interaction, synthetic spectrum calculations, diffractive scintillation, progenitor scenarios, optical afterglows, fireball model, supernova debris, reverse shock, afterglow radiation, radio afterglows, radioactive tail Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Monte Carlo, Cambridge University Press, International Workshop, Crab Nebula, Hubble Space Telescope, Nino Panagia, European Southern Observatory, Huntsville Symposium, Milky Way, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, The Underlying Model, Examination of Plate, Italy Abstract, National Science Foundation, Space Telescope Science Institute, Supernova Interaction, Supernova Rates, Very Large Array, World Scientific, Big Bang, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, East Asia, Interplanetary Network New!
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- Gamma-Ray Bursts: 5th Huntsville Symposium (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics) by R. Marc Kippen on 6 pages
- Astrophysical Quantities by Arthur N. Cox on page 75, and page 90
- Dark Matter by Bryon Smith on page 216
- Supernovae and Stellar Wind in the Interstellar Medium (Translation Series) by Tatjana A. Lozinskaya on page 168
- Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Greatest Explosions Since the Big Bang (Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series) by Mario Livio on page 281
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- Open Issues in Core Collapse Supernova Theory (Proceedings from the Institute for Nuclear Theory) by Anthony Mezzacappa on page 438, and page 439
- Morphology of Condensed Matter: Physics and Geometry of Spatially Complex Systems (Lecture Notes in Physics) by Klaus R. Mecke in Back Matter
- Processes with Long-Range Correlations: Theory and Applications (Lecture Notes in Physics) (v. 621) by Govindan Rangarajan in Back Matter
- Gravitational Lensing:An Astrophysical Tool (Lecture Notes in Physics) by Frederic Courbin in Back Matter
- Direct and Inverse Methods in Nonlinear Evolution Equations: Lectures Given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School Held in Cetraro, Italy, September 5-12, 1999 (Lecture Notes in Physics) by Robert M. Conte in Back Matter
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