We present the results from a Hubble Space Telescope/ACS study of the supernovae associated with gamma-ray bursts 040924 (z = 0.86) and 041006 (z = 0.71). We find evidence that both GRBs were associated with a SN1998bw-like supernova dimmed by ∼ 1.5 and ∼ 0.3 magnitudes, respectively, making GRB040924 the faintest GRB-associated SN ever detected. We study the luminosity dispersion in GRB/XRF-as...

Supernovae descendent from massive stars explode in media that have been modified by their progenitors’ mass loss and UV radiation. The supernova ejecta will first interact with the circumstellar material shed by the progenitors at late evolutionary stages, and then interact with the interstellar material. Circumstellar nebulae in supernova remnants can be diagnosed by their small expansion vel...

a The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) has unique capabilities as a supernova detector. In the event of a galactic supernova there are opportunities, with the data that SNO would collect, to constrain certain intrinsic neutrino properties significantly, to test details of the various models of supernova dynamics, and to provide prompt notification to the astronomical community through the Sup...

Supernova 1987A, which was the first naked-eye supernova since Kepler’s supernova in 1604. It was an unusual supernova that in many respects defied theoretical expectations. It has long been suspected that these anomalies were the result of the merger of two massive stars some 20,000 years before the explosion, but so far there has been no conclusive proof. Here we present threedimensional hydr...

Pulsar/Supernova Remnant Associations Vicky Kaspi Infrared Processing & Analysis Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ California Institute of Technology Since the discovery of the first pulsar/supernova remnant association not long after the discover of pulsars themselves, the number of proposed associations has grown to nearly 20. In this talk we will critically review the known and proposed sup...

The recently-discovered, nearby young supernova remnant in the southeast corner of the older Vela supernova remnant may have been seen in measurements of nitrate abundances in Antarctic ice cores. Such an interpretation of this twenty-year-old ice-core data would provide a more accurate dating of this supernova than is possible purely using astrophysical techniques. The resulting estimates of t...

The evolution of type Ia supernova binary system progenitors is highly uncertain. Several evolutionary models predict that the accretion of mass onto the white dwarf is accompanied by mass ejection from the binary in the form of a powerful wind, but very few observations have been made during the initial phase of formation of supernovae remnants, when the interaction of supernova ejecta with pr...

We present K -band (1.9 – 2.5 μm) spectra of the Type Ic SN 2000ew observed with IRCS on the Subaru Telescope. These data show the first detection of carbon monoxide (CO) emission in a Type Ic supernova. The detection of CO in SN 2000ew provides further evidence that molecule formation may be a common occurrence in core-collapse supernova ejecta. The spectrum also contains narrow emission lines...

The environments of supernova explosion are often inhomogeneous and there may be jumps in their density structure. We have developed a semi-analytic model under the thin-shell approximation for supernova remnants that evolve crossing a density jump in the ambient medium. The generic evolutionary relations are presented for the blast wave after impacting on a cavity wall, which may be produced b...