Publisher's Synopsis
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
- Paul Murdin Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 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
- 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
