Extreme explosions: supernovae, hypernovae, magnetars, and other unusual cosmic blasts

pt. II. A walk across the rooftops. 3. Stellar evolution at the summit of the main sequence : Looking deeper into the controversy 
 A problem with wolves 
 The Humphrey-Davidson limit 
 Luminous and violent blue variables 
 Evolutionary paths of the most massive stars 
 Type IIn supernovae 
 Explaining type IIn properties 
 Catching the wave 
 From imposter to supernova 
 Direct detonation of LBVs 
 Slow blow: the case of supernova SN 2008iy 
 The impact of collisions (no pun intended!) --
4. Collapsars, hypernovae and long gamma ray bursts : From star wars to star death 
 Beppo-SAX to the rescue 
 Of fireballs and jets 
 A best fit: the collapsar model 
 Hypernovae and hyperbolae 
 Reconstructing the supernova-GRB connection 
 Supernova: or supranova? 
 XRFs and type Ibc supernovae 
 SN 2010jp: the first jet-powered type II supernova --
5. Death by fallback : The mystery of Cygnus X-1 
 Controversial supernovae 
 Populations --
6. The formation of massive stars by collision and their fate : A lack of interpersonal skills: harassment --
7. Electron-capture supernovae : Supernova or imposter? 
 The troubling fates of intermediate mass stars 
 Limiting factors 
 Post main sequence evolution 
 The Cassino da Urca 
 Many roads lead to Rome 
 Did the progenitor of SN 2008S spend too much time at the roulette table? 
 SN 2009md: a faint type IIP supernova with a troubling origin 
 A coda from the distant past: type I.5 supernovae --
8. Ultra-luminous Type IIn supernovae : Taking the pulse 
 A letal pulse: SN 2006gy and 2006tf as pulsational pair-instability supernovae 
 SN 2008es: an ultra-luminous type II-L supernova 
 A deadly couple embrace: was SN 2007bi the first pair instability supernova? 
 Was pair instability a common cause of death in the early universe? --
9. The magnetar model for ultra-luminous supernovae : The magnetar model 
 SN 2006aj and the x-ray flashes --
10. The mysterious SN 2005ap and luminous blue flashes : SN 2005ap 
 Arrival of the white knights 
 The PPI model 
 The magnetar model 
 The buried GRB model 
 Are these blue explosions pair-instability events? 
 Pan-STARRS events 
 Can we tie up all the loose ends? pt. III. Thermonuclear supernovae. 11. Hypotheses and an oxymoron : What astronomers know 
 What astronomers think they know 
 What astronomers don\'t know 
 Mechanisms and scenarios 
 The single-degenerate scenario 
 More problems 
 A precious few 
 Double-degenerate models 
 The explosion 
 SN 2011fe: a defining type Ia supernova --
12. Are there super-Chandrasekhar supernovae? : Type Ia supernovae: a reprise 
 SN 1991T 
 SN 2003fg: too bright for its own good? 
 Loneliness in a crowd --
13. The good, the bad and the ugly thermonuclear supernovae : R corona borealis: born again stars 
 Mergers of more massive white dwarf stars 
 AM CVn systems 
 Type .Ia supernovae: descendants of AM CVn binaries? 
 Record breaking type .Ia supernova or something else? 
 Do some type Ia supernovae explode without detonation? 
 SN 2008ha: a cousin of Sn 2005hk? 
 PTF 09dav: something else? 
 Sn 2005E: Lex Parsimoniae. pt. IV. In flagrante delicto. 14. The mysterious case of V838 Monocerotis and the red novae : V838 Moncerotis 
 V4332 Sagittarii 
 A stellar merger caught in the act 
 M85\'s red nova 
 The case of the optical transient NGC 300 OT 
 Once red, now blue 
 What do these collisions tell us about stellar eruptions? 
 The great eruption of Eta Carinae: a reprise --
15. Between Scylla and Charybdis : Type IIa? 
 What might the new scheme be based upon?