Handbook of Supernovae

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxii

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2. Supernovae and Supernova Remnants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Supernovae and Supernova Remnants: The Big Picture in Low Resolution

      • Athem W. Alsabti, Paul Murdin

      Pages 3-28

   3. Discovery, Confirmation, and Designation of Supernovae

      • Hitoshi Yamaoka

      Pages 29-33

3. Historical Supernovae

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Historical Supernovae in the Galaxy from AD 1006

      • David A. Green

      Pages 37-48

   3. Historical Records of Supernovae

      • F. Richard Stephenson

      Pages 49-62

   4. Supernova of 1006 (G327.6+14.6)

      • Satoru Katsuda

      Pages 63-81

   5. Supernova of 1054 and its Remnant, the Crab Nebula

      • Roger Blandford, Rolf Bühler

      Pages 83-95

   6. Supernova of AD 1181 and its Remnant: 3C 58

      • Roland Kothes

      Pages 97-115

   7. Supernova of 1572, Tycho’s Supernova

      • Anne Decourchelle

      Pages 117-137

   8. Supernova 1604, Kepler’s Supernova, and its Remnant

      • Jacco Vink

      Pages 139-160

   9. Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

      • Bon-Chul Koo, Changbom Park

      Pages 161-178

   10. Possible and Suggested Historical Supernovae in the Galaxy

       • David A. Green, F. Richard Stephenson

       Pages 179-191

4. Types of Supernovae

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Observational and Physical Classification of Supernovae

      • Avishay Gal-Yam

      Pages 195-237

   3. Hydrogen-Rich Core-Collapse Supernovae

      • Iair Arcavi

      Pages 239-276

   4. Hydrogen-Poor Core-Collapse Supernovae

      • Elena Pian, Paolo A. Mazzali

      Pages 277-292

   5. Type Ia Supernovae

      • Kate Maguire

      Pages 293-316

   6. The Extremes of Thermonuclear Supernovae

      • Stefan Taubenberger

      Pages 317-373

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.  

Editorial Board

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

• Athem W. Alsabti University College London Observatory, University College London, London, UK

          Sections: Supernovae and Supernova Remnants                          Supernovae and the Environment of the Solar System

• Paul Murdin Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

          Section: Supernovae and Supernova Remnants


SECTION EDITORS

• David Arnett Steward Observatory,University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

           Section: Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae

• Phil Charles University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Southampton, UK

          Section: Stellar Remnants - Neutron Stars and Black Holes

• Robert A. Fesen Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

          Section: Evolution of Supernovae and the Interstellar Medium

• David A. Green Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

          Section: Historical Supernovae

• Mario Hamuy Astronomy Department, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile;  Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Santiago, Chile

          Section: Cosmology from Supernovae

• Peter Hoeflich Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA

          Section: Explosion Mechanisms of Supernovae

• Ken’ichi Nomoto Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

          Section: Supernovae and Stellar Evolution

• Stephen Smart  Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University, Belfast; Northern Ireland, UK

           Section: Light Curves and Spectra of Supernovae

• Mark Sullivan School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK 

          Section: Types of Supernovae

• Friedrich-Karl Thielemann Department of Physics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  

          Sections: Neutrinos, Gravitational Waves and Cosmic Rays
                         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 

          Section: Stellar Remnants - Neutron Stars and Black Holes

• 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

• University College London Observatory, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  Athem W. Alsabti

• Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  Paul Murdin

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).

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