Supernovae release an enormous amount of energy into the interstellar medium. Their remnants can observationally be traced up to several ten-thousand years. So far more than 230 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) have been identified in the radio range. Detailed studies of the different types of SNRs give insight into the interaction of the blast wave with the interstellar medium. Shock acceler...

October 2004 marks the 400th anniversary of the sighting of SN 1604, now marked by the presence of an expanding nebulosity known as Kepler’s supernova remnant. Of the small number of remnants of historical supernovae, Kepler’s remnant remains the most enigmatic. The supernova type, and hence the type of star that exploded, is still a matter of debate, and even the distance to the remnant is unc...

We review new developments in the theory of massive stars and their circumstellar environments, considering the evolution from the main sequence to the supernova explosion. Our focus is | for both aspects, the stellar interior and their immediate surroundings | to highlight recently explored eeects of stellar rotation , in particular rotationally induced mixing of chemical species and of angula...

We discuss the implication of the observation of supernova relic neutrinos on the study of the star formation rate in galaxies. The limit recently obtained at SuperKamiokande (SK) is already marginally significant, giving the limit that selective extinction of galaxies EB−V < 0.4, allowing for uncertainties in the model supernova neutrino flux. We argue that the increase of the SK statistics by...

SuperCollider [5] is a computer music system based on an object-oriented real-time scripting language and a separate audio synthesis server. The synthesis server is programmed using a sequential programming model and is only able to use one CPU core for audio synthesis, so it does not make full use of today’s multi-core CPUs. In order to overcome this limitation we have implemented Supernova, a...

We calculate the TeV-PeV neutrino fluxes of gamma-ray bursts associated with supernovae, based on the observed association between GRB 030329 and supernova SN 2003dh. The neutrino spectral flux distributions can test for possible delays between the supernova and the gamma-ray burst events down to much shorter timescales than what can be resolved with photons. As an illustrative example, we calc...

The supernova remnant N157B (30 Dor B, SNR 0539-69.1, NGC 2060), located in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud, has long been considered a possible Crab-like remnant. This hypothesis has been confirmed, quite spectacularly, with the discovery of PSR J0537−6910, the remarkable 16 ms X-ray pulsar in N157B. PSR J0537−6910 is the most rapidly spinning pulsar found to be associated w...

The e − and e + energy spectra from the SN1987A Supernova neutrino burst interactions are calculated and compared to the observed spectra in Kamiokande-II and IMB experiments. Neutrino oscillations in Supernova and regeneration effects in the Earth, for four combinations of neutrino mass hierarchy (Direct/Inverted) and the value of the mixing angle θ 13 (Large/Small), are taken into account. Th...