Astronomy - Cosmology And Particle Astrophysics, 2Nd Ed - Lars Bergstrm, Ariel Goobar (Springer, 2006).pdf

Lars Bergstro¨m Ariel Goobar
Cosmology and Particle
Astrophysics
Second Edition
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Professor Lars Bergstro¨m and Dr Ariel Goobar
Department of Physics
Stockholm University
Stockholm
Sweden
April 22, 23 and 24 UT. North is up, and East to the left; the field of view is 194 Â 194 arcseconds. The
supernova SN1998aq was still in its rising phase when the exposures were taken, and is visible as the
bright blue object to the upper right fo the galaxy nucleus. Back cover inset: Composite image of the
galzxy NGC 5965 taken on the early evening of 2001 August 19. North is up, and East to the left; the
field of view is 260 Â 260 arcseconds. The supernova SN2001cm in this galaxy is visible as the blue star
just below the central dust land, above and to the left of the galaxy nucleus. Observation and image
processing for both cover images by Hakon Dahle, which are reproduced here with his permission.
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