The Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Mechanism
Abstract
The explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae is a long-standing problem in stellar astrophysics. We briefly outline the main contenders for a solution and review recent efforts to model core-collapse supernova explosions by means of multi-dimensional simulations. Focusing on the neutrino-driven mechanism, we summarize currents efforts to predict supernova explosion and remnant properties.
- Publication:
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The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921317002575
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1702.06940
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..329...17M
- Keywords:
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- Supernovae: general;
- stars: evolution;
- stars: interiors;
- hydrodynamics;
- instabilities;
- convection;
- neutrinos;
- turbulence;
- methods: numerical;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- Invited review to appear in the International Astronomical Union Proceedings Serie (IAU Symposium 329, "The Lives and Death Throes of Massive Stars"). 8 pages, 2 figures