Assignment #6 and updates

Hi all,

Assignment #6 is available for download.

Links to reading:

• Thermonuclear Supernovae by The Astrophysics Spectator
  http://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/topics/supernovae/SupernovaeThermonuclear.html
• How to Blow Up A Star by W. Hillebrandt, H.-T. Janka and E. Muellerller. Scientific American, October 2006. (Note: You have already looked at this article in the context of core-collapse supernovae; now look at it again for the thermonuclear supernova perspective).
  http://bit.ly/tPYkf1
• Type Ia Supernovae: Their Origin and Possible Applications in Cosmology by K. Nomoto, K. Iwamoto, & N. Kishimoto. Science, 276, 1378, 1997. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/276/5317/1378.full.pdf
• OPTIONAL (advanced): Type Ia Supernova Explosion Models} by W. Hillebrandt  & J. C. Niemeyer, Annual Review in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38, 191, 2000.
  http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.astro.38.1.191

Update on the term project:

Based on the feedback you have provided in the anonymous FS 001 survey, I have decided to change the term project. Your charge is now:

• Using LaTex, write a 5-page (double spaced) term paper on the kind of explosion you had picked for the video. Continue to work in groups of two. Use proper citation and bibliography.
• Prepare a 20-minute presentation based on your choice of explosion (the same you discuss in on your paper).

Both things are due in the final class meeting on 11/30.