Abstract:
Study of energetic cosmic explosions as a part of time domain
astronomy is one of the key areas that could be pursued with upcoming
Giant segmented optical-IR telescopes with a very large photon collecting
area applying cutting edge technology. Existing 8–10 m class telescopes
have been helpful to improve our knowledge about core-collapse super-
novae, gamma-ray bursts and nature of their progenitors and explosion
mechanisms. However, many aspects about these energetic cosmic explo-
sions are still not well-understood and require much bigger telescopes
and back-end instruments with high precision to address the evolution of
massive stars and high-redshift Universe in more detail. In this presen-
tation, possible thrust research areas towards core-collapse supernovae
and gamma-ray bursts with the Thirty-Meter Telescope and back-end
instruments are presented.
