Supernova remnants: Types and evolution

Abstract

Although only a small fraction of stars end their lives as supernovae, all supernovae leave behind a supernova remnant (SNR), an expanding shock wave that interacts with the surrounding medium, heating the gas and seeding the cosmos with elements forged in the progenitor In this chapter, we introduce the basic properties of galactic and extragalactic SNRs (Section 2). We summarize how SNRs evolve throughout their life cycles over the course of ~10^6 yrs (Section 3). We discuss the various morphological types of SNRs and discuss the emission processes at various wavelengths.(Section 4).

arXiv comment13 pages, 8 figures, To appear in "Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics" by Springer - Editors in chief: C. Bambi and A. Santangelo

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