Sentences with phrase «physics in supernovae»
He thought the theory sounded plausible and developed a new way to describe neutrino physics in supernovae, working on newly available $ 25 million supercomputers at the Max Planck Institute, one of the few places in Europe where the computers were available for unclassified research.
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Further studies of SN 2009ip and its aftermath will help tease out the physics of these exotic supernovae, says Armin Rest, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who was not part of the study team.
Although previous supernovas have been seen this early, the new observation is the earliest one with a spectrum — an accounting of the emitted light broken up by wavelength — taken six hours after the explosion, Yaron and colleagues report online February 13 in Nature Physics.
An international collaboration led by the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) have discovered that the color of supernovae during a specific phase could be an indicator for detecting the most distant and oldest supernovae in the Universe — more than 13 billion years old.
Gravitational waves might also reveal some of the physics of the strange stew of neutrons that makes up a protoneutron star — the beginnings of an incredibly dense star formed in a supernova.
«Currently, Super-Kamiokande can detect neutrinos from supernova explosions anywhere in our own Milky Way galaxy,» says Vagins, of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe.
The current technique, based on supernovas, garnered three cosmologists the 2011 Nobel prize in physics.
Dr David Sloan, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: «A lot of previous work has focused on «doomsday» scenarios on Earth — astrophysical events like supernovae that could wipe out the human race.
«Some stars get the boot when their companion star explodes in a supernova, and others can get kicked out of crowded star clusters,» says William Chick, a UW doctoral student in physics, who presented his team's new results Jan. 5 at the 227th American Astronomical Society meeting in Kissimmee, Fla. «The gravitational boost increases a star's speed relative to other stars.»
Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for their observations that type Ia supernovae indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
There were several observations that suggested the accelerated cosmic expansion, including distant supernovae for which the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded.
Understanding the physics of these astrophysical objects is crucial as they are considered as the possible progenitors of thermonuclear supernovae, being used in cosmology to measure the acceleration of the universe expansion linked to dark energy.
Type 1a supernovae have already played a profound role at the Keck Observatory when a team of astronomers were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Specifically, the NuStar will map radioactive material in supernovae remnants in an attempt to study the origins of cosmic rays and extreme physics surrounding collapsed stars.