Gamma-Ray Signatures of Supernovae and Hypernovae
Abstract
We review the characteristics of nucleosynthesis and radioactivities in 'Hypernovae', i.e., supernovae with very large explosion energies ( ergs) and their -ray line signatures. We also discuss the Ti line -rays from SN1987A and the detectability with INTEGRAL. Signatures of hypernova nucleosynthesis are seen in the large [(Ti, Zn)/Fe] ratios in very metal poor stars. Radioactivities in hypernovae compared to those of ordinary core-collapse supernovae show the following characteristics: 1) The complete Si burning region is more extended, so that the ejected mass of Ni can be much larger. 2) Si-burning takes place in higher entropy and more -rich environment. Thus the Ti abundance relative to Ni is much larger. In aspherical explosions, Ti is even more abundant and ejected with velocities as high as 15,000 km s, which could be observed in -ray line profiles. 3) The abundance of Al is not so sensitive to the explosion energy, while the Fe abundance is enhanced by a factor of 3.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110079,
title = {Gamma-Ray Signatures of Supernovae and Hypernovae},
author = {K. Nomoto and K. Maeda and Y. Mochizuki and S. Kumagai and H. Umeda and T. Nakamura and I. Tanihata},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110079},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Invited talk at the ``GAMMA2001'' Symposium, April 4-6, 2001, Baltimore. To be published in ``Gamma-Ray Astronomy 2001'' (American Institute of Physics)