Overview
- Presents a comprehensive, structured view of current knowledge in the broad field of supernovae
- Collates the latest research on supernovae from across many subdisciplines
- Serves as a starting point for all scholars interested in supernova study
- Includes contributions from nearly 120 of the most prominent supernova researchers
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (109 entries)
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Front Matter
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Supernovae and Supernova Remnants
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Front Matter
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Historical Supernovae
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Keywords
- Cosmology from Supernovae
- Explosion Mechanisms of Supernovae
- Formation of Pulsars, Neutrons Stars and Black Holes
- Historical Supernovae
- ISM and Supernovae Remnants
- Light Curves and Spectra of Supernova
- Neutrinos and Supernovae
- Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae
- Supernovae Handbook
- Supernovae Reference
- Supernovae and Stellar Evolution
- Types of Supernovae
About this book
This reference work gathers all of the latest research in the supernova field areas to create a definitive source book on supernovae, their remnants and related topics. It includes each distinct subdiscipline, including stellar types, progenitors, stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis of elements, supernova types, neutron stars and pulsars, black holes, swept up interstellar matter, cosmic rays, neutrinos from supernovae, supernova observations in different wavelengths, interstellar molecules and dust. While there is a great deal of primary and specialist literature on supernovae, with a great many scientific groups around the world focusing on the phenomenon and related subdisciplines, nothing else presents an overall survey. This handbook closes that gap at last. As a comprehensive and balanced collection that presents the current state of knowledge in the broad field of supernovae, this is to be used as a basis for further work and study by graduate students, astronomers and astrophysicists working in close/related disciplines, and established groups.
SECTION EDITORS
Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae
Editorial Board
EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
- Athem W. Alsabti University College London Observatory, University College London, London, UK
- Paul Murdin Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
SECTION EDITORS
- David Arnett Steward Observatory,University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phil Charles University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Southampton, UK
- Robert A. Fesen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
- David A. Green Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Mario Hamuy Astronomy Department, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile; Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile
- Peter Hoeflich Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
- Ken’ichi Nomoto Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
- Stephen Smart Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast; Northern Ireland, UK
- Mark Sullivan School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
- Friedrich-Karl Thielemann Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae
- Chengmin M. Zhang National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy, CAS, Beijing, China; School of Physical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Born in Iraq in 1945, Dr. Alsabti moved to the UK on a scholarship to the University of Manchester. He obtained his BSc in Mathematical Physics in 1967, his MSc in 1968 (Astrophysics, Supernovae) and his PhD in 1970 (“Investigating very faint nebulosities associated with non-thermal galactic radio sources”). He now works at University College London, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Alsabti's research interests are in the origin and evolution of supernovae and interstellar matter. Dr. Alsabti was also a Professor of Physics at Baghdad University and founded the Baghdad Planetarium and Iraqi National Observatory.
He has been an active member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) since 1973, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). In the IAU, he is a member of the Advanced Development Projects Group. Dr. Alsabti is also a member of the World Space Observatory Committee, and a consultant to the Cornwall Observatory and Planetarium Project.
Educated at the Universities of Oxford and Rochester, NY, Paul Murdin has worked as an astronomer in the USA, Australia, England, Scotland and in Spain, where he led the operation of the Anglo-Dutch Isaac Newton Group of telescopes in the Canary Islands. He has been a research scientist (studying supernovae, neutron stars and black holes – in 1972 Paul discovered the nature of the first black hole known in our galaxy, Cygnus X-1) and a science administrator for the UK Government and the Royal Astronomical Society. He works at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England, and is Visiting Professor at John Moores University, Liverpool.
He has a secondary career as a broadcaster and commentator for the BBC and CNN, as well as a lecturer and writer on astronomy, including repeat appearances on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and at a number of literary and science festivals, like those at Hay-on-Wye and Edinburgh, and on the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2. His most recent books include Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Universe (Thames and Hudson, 2009), Mapping the Universe (Carlton, 2011), and Are We Being Watched? The Search for Life in the Cosmos (Thames and Hudson, 2013).
He has been an active member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) since 1973, and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). In the IAU, he is a member of the Advanced Development Projects Group. Dr. Alsabti is also a member of the World Space Observatory Committee, and a consultant to the Cornwall Observatory and Planetarium Project.
Educated at the Universities of Oxford and Rochester, NY, Paul Murdin has worked as an astronomer in the USA, Australia, England, Scotland and in Spain, where he led the operation of the Anglo-Dutch Isaac Newton Group of telescopes in the Canary Islands. He has been a research scientist (studying supernovae, neutron stars and black holes – in 1972 Paul discovered the nature of the first black hole known in our galaxy, Cygnus X-1) and a science administrator for the UK Government and the Royal Astronomical Society. He works at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, England, and is Visiting Professor at John Moores University, Liverpool.
He has a secondary career as a broadcaster and commentator for the BBC and CNN, as well as a lecturer and writer on astronomy, including repeat appearances on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and at a number of literary and science festivals, like those at Hay-on-Wye and Edinburgh, and on the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2. His most recent books include Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Universe (Thames and Hudson, 2009), Mapping the Universe (Carlton, 2011), and Are We Being Watched? The Search for Life in the Cosmos (Thames and Hudson, 2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Supernovae
Editors: Athem W. Alsabti, Paul Murdin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21846-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21845-8Published: 08 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21846-5Published: 23 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 2727
Number of Illustrations: 170 b/w illustrations, 680 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Nuclear Chemistry