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 …

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 …

The origin of elements from carbon to uranium

C Kobayashi, AI Karakas, M Lugaro - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To reach a deeper understanding of the origin of elements in the periodic table, we construct
Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models for all stable elements from C (A= 12) to U (A …

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …

Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): convective boundaries, element diffusion, and massive star explosions

B Paxton, J Schwab, EB Bauer, L Bildsten… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We update the capabilities of the software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar
Astrophysics (MESA) and enhance its ease of use and availability. Our new approach to …

Binary population and spectral synthesis version 2.1: construction, observational verification, and new results

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway, L **ao… - Publications of the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis suite of binary stellar evolution models and
synthetic stellar populations provides a framework for the physically motivated analysis of …

Formation of double neutron star systems

TM Tauris, M Kramer, PCC Freire, N Wex… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Double neutron star (DNS) systems represent extreme physical objects and the endpoint of
an exotic journey of stellar evolution and binary interactions. Large numbers of DNS systems …

Pulsational pair-instability supernovae

SE Woosley - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The final evolution of stars in the mass range 70–140${\text {}}{M} _ {\odot} $ is explored.
Depending upon their mass loss history and rotation rates, these stars will end their lives as …

Neutrino physics with JUNO

F An, G An, Q An, V Antonelli, E Baussan… - Journal of Physics G …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), a 20 kton multi-purpose
underground liquid scintillator detector, was proposed with the determination of the neutrino …