Equations of state for supernovae and compact stars

M Oertel, M Hempel, T Klähn, S Typel - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
A review is given of various theoretical approaches for the equation of state (EoS) of dense
matter, relevant for the description of core-collapse supernovae, compact stars, and compact …

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 …

Core-collapse supernova equations of state based on neutron star observations

AW Steiner, M Hempel, T Fischer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Many of the currently available equations of state for core-collapse supernova simulations
give large neutron star radii and do not provide large enough neutron star masses, both of …

Supernova simulations confront SN 1987A neutrinos

DFG Fiorillo, M Heinlein, HT Janka, G Raffelt… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We return to interpreting the historical SN 1987A neutrino data from a modern perspective.
To this end, we construct a suite of spherically symmetric supernova models with the …

The shell model as a unified view of nuclear structure

E Caurier, G Martínez-Pinedo, F Nowacki, A Poves… - Reviews of modern …, 2005 - APS
The last decade has witnessed both quantitative and qualitative progress in shell-model
studies, which have resulted in remarkable gains in our understanding of the structure of the …

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 …

A statistical model for a complete supernova equation of state

M Hempel, J Schaffner-Bielich - Nuclear Physics A, 2010 - Elsevier
A statistical model for the equation of state and the composition of supernova matter is
presented. It consists of an ensemble of nuclei and interacting nucleons in nuclear statistical …

Physical, numerical, and computational challenges of modeling neutrino transport in core-collapse supernovae

A Mezzacappa, E Endeve, OEB Messer… - Living Reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
The proposal that core collapse supernovae are neutrino driven is still the subject of active
investigation more than 50 years after the seminal paper by Colgate and White. The modern …

The status of multi-dimensional core-collapse supernova models

B Müller - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2016 - cambridge.org
Models of neutrino-driven core-collapse supernova explosions have matured considerably
in recent years. Explosions of low-mass progenitors can routinely be simulated in 1D, 2D …

Neutrino signal of electron-capture supernovae from core collapse to cooling

L Hüdepohl, B Müller, HT Janka, A Marek, GG Raffelt - Physical Review Letters, 2010 - APS
An 8.8 M⊙ electron-capture supernova was simulated in spherical symmetry consistently
from collapse through explosion to essentially complete deleptonization of the forming …