Supernova Explosions

 Preface.- Overview.- Search and discovery.-Environments and rates of Supernovae.- Spectra.- Light curves.- Circumstellar interaction.- Supernovae remnants.- Evolution to catastrophe.- Core collapse.- Pair-instability Supernovae A Models.- Supernova 1987A.- Type IIP Supernovae.- Type IIL Supernovae.- Type IIn Supernovae.- Type IIb Supernovae.- Type Ib Supernovae.- Type Ic Supernovae.- Superluminous Supernovae.- Degenerate carbon burning.- Observational properties.- Progenitors.-  Explosion models.- Related explosions.- Consequences of Supernovae.- Applications of Supernovae to the areas of astrophysics and physics.- Summary and prospects.

David Branch received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1969. He then served as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center (1969), the California Institute of Technology (1969-70), and the Royal Greenwich Observatory, England, (1970-73). During those years he worked on the spectroscopic determination of the relative abundances of the chemical elements in the Sun and stars, and began to work on the interpretation of the spectra of supernovae. In 1973 he joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma as Assistant Professor and became Full Professor in 1981. From 1985 to 1990 he served as Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 1987 he received the career appointment of George Lynn Cross Research Professor. During his tenure at Oklahoma he also held Visiting-Professor appointments at the University of Texas (1979-80), Oxford University (1980), the University of California, Santa Cruz (1984), and the University of Munich (1987), as well as Visiting Senior Scientist appointments at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1991) and the International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy (1997). He is a member of the American Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union. He received the Senior United States Scientist Award of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, Germany (1988) and the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland (2004). He has published more than 300 refereed scientific papers. At the University of Oklahoma, his research has concentrated on advancing our understanding of the physics of supernova explosions, with emphasis on the interpretation of the spectra of supernovae. He was an early and persistent advocate of using supernovae to determine the history of the expansion rate of the universe.
J. Craig Wheeler received his PhD in physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1969. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the California

The authors received the Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for 2019 from the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
"This book aims to be a resource for those working in the field of supernovae ... the text covers all the basics in fairly good depth, providing ample citations for readers wishing to delve deeper. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals." (D. J. Van Domelen, Choice, Vol. 55 (10), June, 2018)