Jacco Vink
Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek & GRAPPA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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I am an associate professor, working in the field of high energy astrophysics. I am located at the Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam and I am a member of GRAPPA.
My research focusses on cosmic ray acceleration by supernova remnants, but I am also interested, and have published on, other aspects of supernova remnants, and on isolated neutron stars, magnetars, pulsar wind nebulae, clusters of galaxies and AGN.
Research group members
Sjors Broersen (PhD student)
Alexandros Chiotellis (PhD student)
Past group members
Klara Schure (now at Oxford)
Eveline Helder (now at PennState)
Daria Kosenko (Postdoc)
PhD theses supervised
Klara Schure, Supernova remnants as particle accelerators and probes of the circumstellar medium (6/2010)
Eveline Helder, Cosmic-ray acceleration in supernova remnants (9/2010)
Supernova Remnants: the X-ray perspective
It was long in the making, but finally it is there: an extensive review on supernova remnants, with a particular emphasis on the X-ray emission.
From the content:
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1. Introduction
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2. Supernovae
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3. The classification of supernova remnants
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4. The hydrodynamic structure and evolution of supernova remnants
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5. Collisionless shock heating and particle acceleration remnant shocks
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6. X-ray radiation from supernova remnants
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7. X-ray spectroscopy with Chandra, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku
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8. Type Ia supernova remnants
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9. Core collapse supernova remnants
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10.Supernova remnants in or approaching the radiative phase
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11.Shock heating and particle acceleration: observations
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12.Concluding remarks
Figure: Three-color Chandra image of Tycho’s SNR
(SN 1572/G120.1+1.4). The color red shows Fe-L-shell emission, green Si XIII, and blue continuum (4–6 keV). Note the very narrow continuum rims near the shock front (blueish/purple in this image), caused by X-ray synchrotron radiation from electrons with energies up to 100 TeV
Personal stuff: my old page with New York photos (including the Brooklyn rainy wedding) can be found here.
