Stockholm university

Research group The supernova group

Massive stars can end their lives in giant explosions, so-called supernovae.

Supernova 1989A
Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, SN 1987A was the nearest supernova explosion observed in centuries and it quickly became the best studied supernova of all time. Credit: ALMA: ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/A. Angelich, Hubble: NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) and P. Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Chandra: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Frank et al.

Group description

At the department, the structure, dynamics and formation of elements in supernovae are studied through modeling and observations. Studies of the interaction of supernovae with the surrounding gas are also performed, which provides direct information about the progenitor's mass loss history just before the explosion. Other important aspects are the connection to the compact object (black hole or neutron star) that is formed in the center of the explosion, and how much dust is created in exploding stars.

Part of the research is done in collaboration with the Physics departments at Stockholm University and KTH within the Oskar Klein Centre.

 

Group members

Group managers

Jesper Sollerman

Professor

Department of Astronomy
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Members

Smaranika Banerjee

Postdoc

Department of Astronomy
Smaranika Banerjee

Stan Barmentloo

PhD student

Department of Astronomy
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Claes-Ingvar Björnsson

Professor emeritus

Department of Astronomy

Seán Brennan

Post doctor

Department of Astronomy
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Mattias Ergon

Guest researcher

Department of Astronomy

Claes Fransson

Professor emeritus

Department of Astronomy

Anamaria Gkini

PhD student

Department of Astronomy

Yang Hu

PhD student

Department of Astronomy

Anders Jerkstrand

Senior Researcher

Department of Astronomy
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Emir Karamehmetoglu

Guest researcher

Department of Astronomy

Erik Kool

Guest researcher

Department of Astronomy
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Peter Lundqvist

Professor

Department of Astronomy
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Ragnhild Lunnan

Assistant Professor

Department of Astronomy
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Priscila Jael Pessi

Postdoctor

Department of Astronomy
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Avinash Singh

Researcher

Department of Astronomy

Jesper Sollerman

Professor

Department of Astronomy
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Konstantinos Tsalapatas

PhD student

Department of Astronomy

Barteld van Baal

PhD student

Department of Astronomy

Blanka Világos

PhD student

Department of Astronomy
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Sheng Yang

Guest researcher

Department of Astronomy
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