The e-ASTROGAM space mission: a major step forward for supernova physics

Abstract

e-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 0.15 MeV - 3 GeV, recently proposed as the M5 Medium-size mission of the European Space Agency. It has the potential to revolutionize the astronomy of medium-energy gamma-rays by increasing the number of known sources in this domain by more than an order of magnitude and providing gamma-ray polarization information for many of these sources. In these proceedings, we discuss the expected capacity of the mission to study the physics of supernovae, both thermonuclear and core-collapse, as well as the origin of cosmic rays in supernova shocks.

6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the IAU Symposium 331 "SN 1987A, 30 years later", eds. Alexandre Marcowith, Gloria Dubner, Alak Ray, Andreï Bykov and Matthieu Renaud

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