Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters

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

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.

• Cosmology
• gamma-ray bursts
• standard candles
• stellar
• supernovae

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

  Kurt W. Weiler

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