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Supernovae: One Millennium After SN1006, 26th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 9, 17-18 August 2006, Prague, Czech Republic,
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Joint Discussion 09 celebrates the millennium of the supernova of 1006 CE, generally recognized as the brightest supernova witnessed in recorded human history. This star was so spectacular that contemporary observers around the world (all in the northern hemisphere) recorded the event, despite its southern location at Dec (1006) = - 38°. Modern astronomers first turned their attention toward the SN 1006 remnant following a paper by Bernard Goldstein (1965) tracing Arabic records of the event. Within a few months Gardner and Milne (1965) identified a non-thermal radio shell as the probable remnant of SN 1006. A decade later X-ray (Winkler & Laird 1976) and optical (van den Bergh 1976) emission was detected. Since then it has been much studied at all wavelengths, as several papers in this Discussion will review. In this introductory talk I will briefly summarize the history of research on the SN 1006 remnant, including evidence that the event itself reached a peak apparent magnitude of about -7.5, some three magnitudes brighter than any other historical supernova. My research on supernova remnants is supported by the National Science Foundation through grant AST-0307613. Gardner, F.F., & Milne, D.K. (1965), AJ, 70, 754 Goldstein, B.R. (1965), AJ, 70, 105 van den Bergh, S. (1976), ApJ, 208, L17 Winkler, P.F., & Laird, F.N. (1976), ApJ, 204, L111
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