Lecture 10: Late breaking news

Further reading

Sources for images used:

• X-ray binary: from http://xraypulsars.aip.de/
• Artist's impression of the Algol system: from The Electronic Sky, http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/stars/algol.html
• X-ray binary: from http://skinakas.physics.uoc.gr/en/research/xray_binaries.html
• Nova Herculis and nova light curve: from Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars by Jim Schombert, http://zebu.oregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec17.html
• Naked eye Nova Centauri 2013: from APOD 2013 December 7, http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131207.html
• Nova outburst: from NASA's Observatorium: Stellar Evolution & Death, http://observe.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeath/stellardeath_4a2.html
• Recurrent nova: from "White Dwarf Pulses Like a Pulsar", https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2007/whitedwarf_pulsar.html
• Type Ia supernova: from "Old Supernovae Show Gravitational Constant Remains Unchanged", http://www.dailyastronomynews.com/Old-Supernovae-Show-Gravitational-Constant-Remains-Unchanged.html
• SN 1994D: from Hubblesite http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/the_universe/pr1999019i/
• SN light curves: from "Type I and Type II Supernovae" http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/snovcn.html
• Type Ia scaled light curves: from "SNe, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe" https://physicsforme.com/2011/10/04/supernovae-dark-energy-and-the-accelerating-universe/
• High-z supernovae: from "Dark Energy: Gaining a Foothold (Part 2)" http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/11/05/dark-energy-gaining-a-foothold/
• Artist's impression of RS Ophiuchi: from "Crash Course Astronomy: Multiple Star Systems" http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/03/multiple_stars_crash_course_astronomy_episode_on_binaries_and_more.html
• Type Ia scenarios: from "Dwarf merging makes for an explosive combo" http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2010/02/18/dwarf_merging_makes_for_an_explosive_combo.html
• Spectrum of the shell around DQ Her: from Williams et al. 1978, ApJ 224, 171 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ApJ...224..171W
• Low mass X-ray binary system: image by Fahad Sulehria, http://novacelestia.com/images/binary_starsystems_lowmass_xray_binary.html
• Three scenarios for SN Ia progenitors: from "Stars that go out with a bang" by Kelly Oakes, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/basic-space/stars-that-go-out-with-a-bang/
• SNR 0509-67.5: from APOD 2012 January 12 http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120112.html
• Kepler field of view: from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(spacecraft)
• Kepler light curves of three supernovae: from Olling et al. 2015, Nature 521, 332 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Natur.521..332O
• Gravitational wave animation: from Universe Today, "Gravitational waves and how they distort space", http://www.universetoday.com/127255/gravitational-waves-101/
• Image distortion due to gravitational waves: from "Will we ever detect gravitational waves directly?" by Matthew Francis, http://galileospendulum.org/2013/03/26/will-we-ever-detect-gravitational-waves-directly/
• LIGO observatory: from https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA/page/ligo-detectors
• LIGO with Uluru for scale: from talk by Eric Throne at the 2016 ASA meeting, http://www.asa2016.org/program-asa/
• LIGO mirrors: from http://www.ligo.org/science/faq.php
• All LIGO videos from https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/videos
• Core bounce: from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_supernova
• Spiral galaxy NGC 3021: from http://scitechdaily.com/hubble-views-spiral-galaxy-ngc-3021/. Source: from Reynolds et al. "Gone without a bang: an archival HST survey for disappearing massive stars", MNRAS 453, 2885 (2015), http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.453.2885R
• Massive star binary: from David Blair, "When black holes meet" http://phys.org/news/2016-02-black-holes-meetinside-cataclysms-gravitational.html
• Westerlund 2: from "Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates 25 Years of Unveiling the Universe" http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/2015/12/

Last updated 12 December 2016