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Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Kurt W. Weiler

    1. NRL-Code 7213, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 598)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kurt W. Weiler
      Pages 1-4

  3. Supernovae

    1. Historical Supernovae

      • David A. Green, F. Richard Stephenson
      Pages 7-19

    2. Classification of Supernovae

      • Massimo Turatto
      Pages 21-36

    3. Supernova Rates

      • Enrico Cappellaro
      Pages 37-46

    4. Optical Spectra of Supernovae

      • David Branch, Edward A. Baron, David J. Jeffery
      Pages 47-75

    5. Optical Light Curves of Supernovae

      • Bruno Leibundgut, Nicholas B. Suntzeff
      Pages 77-90

    6. X-Ray Supernovae

      • Stefan Immler, Walter H. G. Lewin
      Pages 91-111

    7. Ultraviolet Supernovae

      • Nino Panagia
      Pages 113-144

    8. Radio Supernovae

      • Richard A. Sramek, Kurt W. Weiler
      Pages 145-169

    9. Supernova Interaction with a Circumstellar Medium

      • Roger A. Chevalier, Claes Fransson
      Pages 171-194

    10. Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae

      • Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt
      Pages 195-217

    11. Supernova 1987A

      • Richard McCray
      Pages 219-240

  4. Supernovae to γ-Ray Bursters

    1. SN1998bw and Hypernovae

      • Koichi Iwamoto, Ken’ichi Nomoto, Paolo A. Mazzali, Takayoshi Nakamura, Keiichi Maeda
      Pages 243-281

    2. Supernovae and γ-Ray Bursters

      • Titus J. Galama
      Pages 283-297

  5. γ-Ray Bursters

    1. Observational Properties of Cosmic γ-Ray Bursts

      • Kevin Hurley
      Pages 301-316

    2. X-Ray Observations of γ-Ray Burst Afterglows

      • Filippo Frontera
      Pages 317-342

    3. Optical Observations of γ-Ray Burst Afterglows

      • Elena Pian
      Pages 343-366

    4. Radio Observations of γ-Ray Burst Afterglows

      • Kurt W. Weiler, Nino Panagia, Marcos J. Montes
      Pages 367-392

    5. Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Underlying Model

      • Eli Waxman
      Pages 393-418
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Since the dawn of mankind, observers of the sky have wondered at the sudden appearance of new stars on the seemingly unchanging heavens and, for at least 2000 years, have recorded these phenomena in their annals and archives. Even in more modern times, since the discovery of SN1885A in S Andromeda which ?gured in the important “island universe” discussions of the 1920’s, the puzzle of supernovae (SNe) has played an important role in astrophysics. Only with the seminal work of Fritz Zwicky and Walter Baade in the 1930’s did we begin to understand the di?erences between novae and SNe and the importance of SNe as the fonts of energy for the interstellar medium and as drivers of chemical evolution in galaxies. As recently as the 1940’s and 1950’s the early days of radio astronomy were heavily in?uenced by the familiar names of Cassiopeia A and Taurus A, two young supernova remnants, and two Nobel prizes have been awarded for discovery and study of a related phenomenon, pulsars. In spite of the great age of the study of SNe, since at least the Chinese records of SN185and probably earlier, the ?eld is, in fact, very young having only attracted a large devoted following since the spectacular Type II SN1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the ?rst naked-eye SN in more than 400 years.

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  • NRL-Code 7213, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

    Kurt W. Weiler

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