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Gamma-Ray Signatures of Supernovae and Hypernovae

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We review the characteristics of nucleosynthesis and radioactivities in 'Hypernovae', i.e., supernovae with very large explosion energies (\gsim1052 \gsim 10^{52} ergs) and their γ\gamma-ray line signatures. We also discuss the 44^{44}Ti line γ\gamma-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 56^{56}Ni can be much larger. 2) Si-burning takes place in higher entropy and more α\alpha-rich environment. Thus the 44^{44}Ti abundance relative to 56^{56}Ni is much larger. In aspherical explosions, 44^{44}Ti is even more abundant and ejected with velocities as high as \sim 15,000 km s1^{-1}, which could be observed in γ\gamma-ray line profiles. 3) The abundance of 26^{26}Al is not so sensitive to the explosion energy, while the 60^{60}Fe abundance is enhanced by a factor of \sim 3.

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@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}
}

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Invited talk at the ``GAMMA2001'' Symposium, April 4-6, 2001, Baltimore. To be published in ``Gamma-Ray Astronomy 2001'' (American Institute of Physics)