Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-vvkck Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T07:07:17.913Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Explosions on a Variety of Scales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Lars Bildsten*
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA email: Bildsten@kitp.ucsb.edu
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The theoretical community is beginning to appreciate (and predict) the potential diversity of explosive outcomes from stellar evolution, while the supernovæ surveys are finding new kinds of supernovæ. This talk described two such new supernovæ. The first are ultraluminous core collapse supernovæ with radiated energies approaching 1051 ergs. The talk went on to present our recent work that explains these events with late-time energy deposition from rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars: magnetars. It concluded with our theoretical work on helium shell detonations on accreting white dwarfs that predict a new class of supernovæ called “.Ia's”. The first such candidate may well have been found by the Palomar Transient Factory.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012