The historical supernovae

By Douglas R. Green, F. Stephenson. 2003

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Only a few civilisations throughout the world have contributed significantly to the written records of astronomical phenomena from the historical past. Pre-eminent among these must be Europe, China (together with Korea and Japan), Babylon and the Arab World. A wealth of pre-telescopic data from these sources is readily accessible, and it is in this that searches for historical supernova sightings have been concentrated.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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• Young Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants and Their Supernovae (2004, background): “The case for Cas A being an SN IIL/b was made in Chevalier & Oishi (2003).”
• Type Ia Supernovae (2000, neutral): “All IUE observations are available as a uniform sample (Cappellaro et al. 1995).”
• A census of high-energy observations of Galactic supernova remnants (2012, background): “The database also contains a table of 14 records of the sighting of a supernova (SN) (Green, 2002; Green and Stephenson, 2003):”
• The Crab Nebula: An Astrophysical Chimera (2008, background): “Even at a distance of ∼2 kpc (Trimble 1968), the Chinese astronomer Wang Yei-te reported that the “guest star” was visible during the daytime for three weeks, and was visible at night for 22 months (Clark & Stephenson 1977).”
• Substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in SDSS Stripe 82 (2009, background): “Stellar variability has been known since Fabricius’ discovery of Miras in 1596, although the ancient Chinese and Korean astronomers were already familiar with supernovae or “guest stars” (Clark & Stephenson 1979).”