Recent experimental data and progress in nuclear structure modeling have led to improved
descriptions of astrophysically important weak-interaction processes. This review discusses …

Supernova models with a full spectral treatment of the neutrino transport are presented,
employing the prometheus/vertex neutrino-hydrodynamics code with a variable Eddington …

Supernova simulations to date have assumed that during core collapse electron captures
occur dominantly on free protons, while captures on heavy nuclei are Pauli blocked and are …

The most important weak nuclear interaction to the dynamics of stellar core collapse is
electron capture, primarily on nuclei with masses larger than 60. In prior simulations of core …

More than 30 years have passed since the successful detection of supernova (SN) neutrinos
from SN 1987A. In the last few decades, remarkable progress has been made in neutrino …

The methods used in the evaluation of the neutrino–nucleus cross section are reviewed.
Results are shown for a variety of targets of practical importance. Many of the described …

ABSTRACT A weak-rate library aimed at investigating the sensitivity of astrophysical
environments to variations of electron-capture rates on medium-heavy nuclei has been …

One of the robust features found in simulations of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) is the
prompt neutronization burst, ie, the first∼ 25 milliseconds after bounce when the SN emits …

Nuclear Astrophysics is concerned with the study of nuclear processes at stellar temperature
and density conditions. A main goal is the understanding of the synthesis of the elements …

We provide a detailed description of the C himera code, a code developed to model core
collapse supernovae (CCSNe) in multiple spatial dimensions. The CCSN explosion …