Light Echoes of Historic Transients Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractLight echoes, light from a variable source scattered off dust, have been observed for over a century. The recent discovery of light echoes around centuries-old supernovae in the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud have allowed the spectroscopic characterization of these events, even without contemporaneous photometry and spectroscopy using modern instrumentation. Here we review the recent scientific advances using light echoes of ancient and historic transients, and focus on our latest work on SN 1987A's and Eta Carinae's light echoes.

authors

• Rest, Armin
• Sinnott, B
• Welch, Douglas L
• Prieto, JL
• Bianco, F

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2013

has subject area

• 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences (FoR)

published in

• Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union  Journal

keywords

• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• CASSIOPEIA-A
• CIRCUMSTELLAR ENVIRONMENT
• ETA-CARINAE
• IA
• LMC
• NEBULOSITY
• OPTICAL SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ATLAS
• PHOTOMETRIC-OBSERVATIONS
• Physical Sciences
• SN 1987A
• SUPERNOVA
• Science & Technology
• reflection nebulae
• stars: individual (eta Car)
• stars: variables: other
• supernovae: general
• supernovae: individual (SN 1987A)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1017/s1743921313009356

start page

• 126

end page

• 134

volume

• 9

issue

• S296