Systematically Bridging the Gap Between Novae and Supernovae
M. M. Kasliwal
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Department of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, M/C 249-17, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, and Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara St, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA. Email: mansi@obs.carnegiescience.edu
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 29(4) 482-488 https://doi.org/10.1071/AS11061
Submitted: 18 October 2011 Accepted: 15 June 2012 Published: 12 July 2012
Abstract
The venerable study of cosmic explosions is over a century old. However, until recently, there has existed a glaring six-magnitude luminosity gap between the brightest novae and faintest supernovae. Serendipitous discoveries, archival searches and ongoing systematic surveys are yielding optical transients that are fainter, faster and rarer than supernovae. Theorists predict a variety of mechanisms to produce transients in the gap and observers have the best chance of finding them in the local Universe. Here I review the discoveries and the unique physics of cosmic explosions that bridge this gap between novae and supernovae.
Keywords: surveys — novae, cataclysmic variables — supernovae: general
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