The Emergence of Multi-Messenger Astronomy, Part I: Supernovae as Epistemic Laboratories.
The paper explores the historical development of supernova research in the 20th century and examines its role in the emergence of multi-messenger astronomy. Through an analysis of primary scientific literature and review sources, we show that theoretical and experimental investigations of supernovae...
| Publicado en: | Centaurus: Journal of the European Society for the History of Science Vol. 67; no. 1; pp. 53 - 84 |
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