Core-Collapse Supernovae at the Threshold
Astrophysics
2015-06-24 v1
Abstract
Recent progress in modeling core-collapse supernovae is summarized and set in perspective. Two-dimensional simulations with state-of-the-art treatment of neutrino transport still fail to produce powerful explosions, but evidence is presented that they are very close to success.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401461,
title = {Core-Collapse Supernovae at the Threshold},
author = {H. -Th. Janka and R. Buras and K. Kifonidis and A. Marek and M. Rampp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401461},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures, high-quality available upon request; contribution to Procs. IAU Coll. 192, "Supernovae", Eds. J.M. Marcaide ad K.W. Weiler, Springer