I summarize, in the form of an extended abstract, the ongoing efforts at the University of Arizona (and in collaboration) to understand core-collapse supernovae theoretically. Included are short discussions of 1D (SESAME) and 2D (VULCAN/2D) codes and results, as well as discussions of the possible role of rotation. Highlighted are recent developments in multi-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics and the essential physics of the neutrino-driven mechanism.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0405427,
title = {Understanding Core-Collapse Supernovae},
author = {Adam Burrows},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0405427},
year = {2007}
}
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to be published in the proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on "Nuclear Astrophysics," a Tribute to an Explosive Astrophysicist, Wolfgang Hillebrandt, on the occasion of his 60th Birthday, held at the Ringberg Castle, Lake Tegernsee, Germany, March 22 - 27, 2004, eds. E. Muller and H.-Th. Janka