Mixing due to Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in SN 1987A.
Abstract
The early discovery of soft and hard X-rays as well as of γ-ray line emission from supernova 1987A indicates that radioactive 56Co has been mixed from the deep interior of the exploding star into the hydrogen-rich envelope. This paper reports numerical simulations of the mixing process by modeling the supernova explosion using a 3-d explicit Eulerian hydrodynamic code.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- April 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989nuas.conf..103M
- Keywords:
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- Supernova 1987A in LMC;
- Supernovae: Shock Waves