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Supernova 1987A at 26.6 Years

Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Space Sciences Building, 105

Supernova 1987A (SN1987A) in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the brightest supernova to be observed since SN1604 (Kepler).  Observations taken with almost every type of telescope, on the ground and in space, have yielded a rich story of the evolution of the explosion debris and its interaction with its circumstellar environment.  Recent observations of SN1987A with the incomplete ALMA array have given us an unprecedented view of the cold inner debris, which contains surprisingly large masses of dust grains and CO and SiO molecules.  The 1.30 mm emission line from the CO 2-1 transition and the 1.38 mm emission line from the  SiO 5-4 transition are sufficiently bright that we will be able to obtain 3-dimensional images of the distribution of these molecules in the supernova debris when the full ALMA array becomes available.

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Event Type

Lecture

Website

http://www.astro.cornell.edu/events/c...

Contact E-Mail

mla20@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Monica Armstrong

Contact Phone

607-255-3727

Speaker

Richard McCray

Speaker Affiliation

JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder

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