Skip to content

Observations and Theory of Supernovae

J. Craig Wheeler

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0209514

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.

Create a lesson