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Supernova explosions / David Branch, J. Craig Wheeler.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QB843.S95 B73 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Branch, David, 1942- author.
- Wheeler, J. Craig, author.
- Series:
- Astronomy and astrophysics library
- Astronomy and astrophysics library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Supernovae.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 721 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Springer Verlag, [2017]
- Contents:
- Part I: Observational overview and general interpretations
- Overview
- Search and discovery
- Environments and rates of supernovae
- Spectra
- Light curves
- Circumstellar interaction
- Supernova remnants
- Evolution to catastrophe
- Part II: Massive star supernovae
- Core collapse
- Pair-instability supernova models
- Supernova 1987a
- Type IIP supernovae
- Type IIL supernovae
- Type IIn supernovae
- Type IIb supernovae
- Type Ib supernovae
- Type Ic supernovae
- Superluminous supernovae
- Part III: Type Ia supernovae
- Degenerate carbon burning
- Observational properties
- Progenitors
- Explosion models
- Related explosions
- Part IV: Consequences, applications, and summary
- Consequences of supernovae
- Applications of supernovae to other areas of astrophysics and physics
- Summary and prospects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-698) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783662550526
- 3662550520
- OCLC:
- 987282611
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