Nucleosynthesis in Neutrino-Driven Supernovae
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
Core collapse supernovae are the leading actor in the story of the cosmic origin of the chemical elements. Existing models, which generally assume spherical symmetry and parameterize the explosion, have been able to broadly replicate the observed elemental pattern. However, inclusion of neutrino interactions produces noticeable improvement in the composition of the ejecta when compared to observations. Neutrino interactions may also provide a supernova source for light p-process nuclei.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0511584,
title = {Nucleosynthesis in Neutrino-Driven Supernovae},
author = {C. Froehlich and W. R. Hix and G. Martinez-Pinedo and M. Liebendoerfer and F. -K. Thielemann and E. Bravo and K. Langanke and N. T. Zinner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0511584},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, in proceedings of Astronomy with Radioactivities V, Clemson University, September 5-9, 2005, to appear in New Astronomy Reviews