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Originally Posted by arecibo
Hi, Robert. Thanks for the effort.
Very informative and interesting. I'm going to ask my Department to buy me the Encyclopedia  |
It is an excellent single-volume reference for 'finding out what is really going on, in detail" without excessive jargon and technicalities and unnecessary complexity.
There are plenty of cheap copies available on the internet.
There was a
very similar (but this time
Multi-volume) encyclopedia, published in 2001 and edited by Paul Murdin, which is more expensive. I have just decided to buy the Murdin encyclopedia as well!
I am currently trying to achieve a more detailed understanding of the physical conditions and evolution of a SNR!
[ It really helps that I already own about a dozen books about the interstellar medium.]
Then I will do a literature search for scientific papers about the spectral lines detected from supernova remnants and about the spatial distribution of the emission from the various lines.
I am pretty sure that the various spectral lines in the optical and UV regimes, and their characteristic distributions in space, have already been characterized in the professional literature ;
this is the sort of work that some of the less-talented professional astronomers like to do, as it merely requires some observations and their presentation in a paper, without too much analysis and without firm conclusions......they get to publish a paper, merely by presenting observations.
(not much harder than the work that the top amateur astronomers do!)