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Observations and Theory of Supernovae

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on the observations of supernovae and the theory of their explosion mechanisms. Journal articles and books are cited for the following topics: observations of the spectra, spectropolarimetry, and light curves of supernovae of various types, theory of thermonuclear explosions, core collapse, and radioactive decay, applications to cosmology, and possible connections to gamma-ray bursts.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209514,
  title  = {Observations and Theory of Supernovae},
  author = {J. Craig Wheeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209514},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

AAPT/AJP Resource Letter, American Journal of Physics, in press, 19 pages, 208 references