Origin of the elements

A Arcones, FK Thielemann - The Astronomy and astrophysics review, 2023‏ - Springer
What is the origin of the oxygen we breathe, the hydrogen and oxygen (in form of water
H2O) in rivers and oceans, the carbon in all organic compounds, the silicon in electronic …

Origin of the heaviest elements: The rapid neutron-capture process

JJ Cowan, C Sneden, JE Lawler, A Aprahamian… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021‏ - APS
The production of about half of the heavy elements found in nature is assigned to a specific
astrophysical nucleosynthesis process: the rapid neutron-capture process (r process) …

Supernova neutrinos: production, oscillations and detection

A Mirizzi, I Tamborra, HT Janka, N Saviano… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2016‏ - Springer
Neutrinos play a crucial role in the collapse and explosion of massive stars, governing the
infall dynamics of the stellar core, triggering and fueling the explosion and driving the …

Explosion mechanisms of core-collapse supernovae

HT Janka - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2012‏ - annualreviews.org
Supernova theory, numerical and analytic, has made remarkable progress in the past
decade. This progress was made possible by more sophisticated simulation tools, especially …

Neutrinos from dense environments: Flavor mechanisms, theoretical approaches, observations, and new directions

MC Volpe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024‏ - APS
Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum
mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to …

Mass ejection from the remnant of a binary neutron star merger: viscous-radiation hydrodynamics study

S Fujibayashi, K Kiuchi, N Nishimura… - The Astrophysical …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We perform long-term general relativistic neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations (in
axisymmetry) for a massive neutron star (MNS) surrounded by a torus, which is a canonical …

Electromagnetic counterparts of compact object mergers powered by the radioactive decay of r-process nuclei

BD Metzger, G Martínez-Pinedo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
The most promising astrophysical sources of kHz gravitational waves (GWs) are the inspiral
and merger of binary neutron star (NS)/black hole systems. Maximizing the scientific return …

The evolution and explosion of massive stars

SE Woosley, A Heger, TA Weaver - Reviews of modern physics, 2002‏ - APS
Like all true stars, massive stars are gravitationally confined thermonuclear reactors whose
composition evolves as energy is lost to radiation and neutrinos. Unlike lower-mass stars …

Red or blue? A potential kilonova imprint of the delay until black hole formation following a neutron star merger

BD Metzger, R Fernández - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Mergers of binary neutron stars usually result in the formation of a hypermassive neutron
star (HMNS). Whether and when this remnant collapses to a black hole (BH) depends …

Collapsars: Gamma-ray bursts and explosions in “failed supernovae”

AI MacFadyen, SE Woosley - The Astrophysical Journal, 1999‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Using a two-dimensional hydrodynamics code (PROMETHEUS), we explore the continued
evolution of rotating helium stars, M α≳ 10 M⊙, in which iron-core collapse does not …