Supernova

Contents
Series Foreword
Introduction
1  Supernovae Through the Ages
	Supernovae in different cultures
	The supernova candidate of 185: the long history of Chinese astronomy
	The supernova of 1006: the supernova seen around the world
	The supernovae of 1572 and 1604: from astrology to astronomy
2  Supernovae in the Modern Era
	The age of the telescope
	From novae to supernovae
	The dawn of supernova surveys
	Today: digital cameras and international collaborations
3  Enlightened by Light
	Light
	Supernova classification
	Light curve and spectroscopic physics
	Supernova rates
4  The Lives and Deaths of Stars
	A star is born
	Type Ia supernovae
	Core-collapse supernovae
	Supernova remnants
5  Supernovae, the Universe, and Us
	Life-givers: creating and dispersing the elements that make up our world
	Star formation and galactic winds
	Cosmic-ray accelerators
	Life-takers: supernovae and mass extinctions
6  Supernovae as Tools
	Supernovae as cosmological rulers
	The accelerating expansion of the Universe and dark energy
	The age of the Universe
	Dark matter and strongly lensed supernovae
	Creators, destroyers, and mappers of dust
	Hostless supernovae and invisible galaxies
7  Burning Questions
	Supernova progenitors
	Singles, binaries, triples
	Failing to explode
	Standardizing the standard candles
	Exotic supernovae: predictions
	Exotic supernovae: observations
8  A Bright Future
	Expanding the observational phase space
	Bigger: Extremely Large Telescopes
	Faster: Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
	Different: beyond visible light
	Beyond light: gravitational waves and multimessenger astronomy
	Amateur astronomers and citizen science
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Units and Elementary Particles
Glossary
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
Further Reading
Index