Supernova Environmental Impacts (IAU S296)

IAU Symposium 296 covers the study of supernovae and supernova remnants, focusing on the interactions of supernovae with their environments.

Alak Ray (Edited by), Richard A. McCray (Edited by)

9781107044777, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 February 2014

432 pages, 100 b/w illus. 5 tables
25.3 x 18 x 2.2 cm, 0.81 kg

New telescopes spanning the full electromagnetic spectrum have enabled the study of supernovae (SNe) and supernova remnants (SNRs) to advance at a breathtaking pace. Automated synoptic surveys have increased the detection rate of supernovae by more than an order of magnitude and have led to the discovery of highly unusual supernovae. Observations of gamma-ray emission from SNRs with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes and the Fermi telescope have spawned new insights into particle acceleration in supernova shocks. Far-infrared observations from the Spitzer and Herschel observatories have told us much about the properties and fate of dust grains in SNe and SNRs. Work with satellite-borne Chandra and XMM-Newton telescopes and ground-based radio and optical telescopes reveal signatures of supernova interaction with their surrounding medium, their progenitor life history and of the ecosystems of their host galaxies. IAU Symposium 296 covers all these advances, focusing on the interactions of supernovae with their environments.

Preface
1. SN 1987A
2. SN models, rates and surveys, VLBI, etc
3. SN: optical studies
4. Young supernovae in circumstellar interactions, their progenitor and light echoes
5. Environs of SN remnants and core-collapse supernovae
6. SNRs in radio and IR
7. SNRs in X-ray
8. SNe-driven galactic outflows, acosystems and star formation
9. Gamma rays from SNRs
10. SNRs, cosmic rays and particle acceleration.

Subject Areas: Astronomy, space & time [PG], Mathematics & science [P]