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 …

The supernova–gamma-ray burst connection

SE Woosley, JS Bloom - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Observations show that at least some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) happen simultaneously
with core-collapse supernovae (SNe), thus linking by a common thread nature's two …

Mind the gap: the location of the lower edge of the pair-instability supernova black hole mass gap

R Farmer, M Renzo, SE de Mink… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Detections of gravitational waves are now starting to probe the mass distribution of stellar
mass black holes (BHs). Robust predictions from stellar models are needed to interpret …

Compact remnant mass function: dependence on the explosion mechanism and metallicity

CL Fryer, K Belczynski, G Wiktorowicz… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The mass distribution of neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes provides vital clues into
the nature of stellar core collapse and the physical engine responsible for supernova …

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 …

The r-process of stellar nucleosynthesis: Astrophysics and nuclear physics achievements and mysteries

M Arnould, S Goriely, K Takahashi - Physics Reports, 2007 - Elsevier
The r-process, or the rapid neutron-capture process, of stellar nucleosynthesis is called for to
explain the production of the stable (and some long-lived radioactive) neutron-rich nuclides …

Theory of core-collapse supernovae

HT Janka, K Langanke, A Marek, G Martínez-Pinedo… - Physics Reports, 2007 - Elsevier
Advances in our understanding and the modeling of stellar core-collapse and supernova
explosions over the past 15 years are reviewed, concentrating on the evolution of …

Self-consistent 3D supernova models from− 7 minutes to+ 7 s: A 1-bethe explosion of a∼ 19 M⊙ progenitor

R Bollig, N Yadav, D Kresse, HT Janka… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, modern three-dimensional (3D) supernova (SN) simulations have not demonstrated
that explosion energies of 10 51 erg (= 1 bethe= 1 B) or more are possible for neutrino …

Physics of core-collapse supernovae in three dimensions: a sneak preview

HT Janka, T Melson, A Summa - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Nonspherical mass motions are a generic feature of core-collapse supernovae, and
hydrodynamic instabilities play a crucial role in the explosion mechanism. The first …

Constraints from gravitational-wave detections of binary black hole mergers on the 12C (α, γ) 16O rate

R Farmer, M Renzo, SE de Mink… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational-wave detections are starting to allow us to probe the physical processes in the
evolution of very massive stars through the imprints they leave on their final remnants …