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Core-Collapse Supernovae as Dust Producers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2007

Rubina Kotak
Rubina Kotak*
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom email: r.kotak@qub.ac.uk
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Abstract

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Although it has long been hypothesised that core-collapse supernovae may produce large quantities of dust, interest in this problem has recently been rekindled given the enormous dust masses inferred at very high redshifts (z ≳ 6), when conventional low-mass dust-producing stars would fail to contribute significantly to the universal dust budget. Emission due to warm dust peaks at mid-IR wavelengths. However, with the notable exception of SN 1987A, supernova studies in the mid-IR have been virtually non-existent until the advent of the Spitzer Space Telescope. On behalf of the Mid-Infrared Supernova Consortium, I briefly discuss recent exciting results from mid-IR studies of core-collapse supernovae using Spitzer and attempt to put the role of supernovae as major dust producers into perspective.

Keywords

supernovae: general – supernovae: individual (SN 2002hh, SN 2003gd, SN 2004dj, SN 2004et, SN 2005af) – dustextinction – infrared: stars
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 3 , Symposium S250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines , December 2007 , pp. 437 - 442
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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