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Consider the gas leaving the tailpipe (exhaust) of a jet or rocket. That gas has been heated by chemical combustion, and accelerated to a large velocity in the nozzle of the jet engine.
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In the rest frame of the jet plane or rocket.
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See [20] and [7] for the discovery papers.
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It should be pointed out that the enormous amount of radiation that is observed for weeks-months after a supernova, leading to the appearance of a “new” star, is not powered the explosion, but by radioactive decay of elements like Cobalt and Nickel. These elements have formed as a result of neutron capture, where the necessary neutrons have been provided close to the core by the neutron star as it is being born.
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1 \({M_{\odot }}\simeq 1.989 \times 10^{33}\) g; 1 pc = \(3.086 \times 10^{18}\) cm.
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Achterberg, A. (2016). Applications of Shock Physics. In: Gas Dynamics. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-195-6_10
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