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In this paper, we present a careful study on the impact of neutrino pair-production on core-collapse supernovae via spherically-symmetric, general-relativistic simulations of two different massive star progenitors with energy-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Aurore Betranhandy , Evan O'Connor

We investigate the impact of asymmetric neutrino-emissions on explosive nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) of progenitors with a mass range of 9.5 to 25$M_{\odot}$. We perform axisymmetric, hydrodynamic simulations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Shin-ichiro Fujimoto , Hiroki Nagakura

Core-collapse supernovae produce elements between Fe and Ag depending on the properties of the ejected matter. Despite the fast progress in supernova simulations in the last decades, there are still uncertainties in the astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Julia Bliss , Maximilian Witt , Almudena Arcones , Fernando Montes , Jorge Pereira

$Context.$ Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to emit gravitational wave signals that could be detected by current and future generation interferometers within the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. The stochastic nature of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Alberto Iess , Elena Cuoco , Filip Morawski , Constantina Nicolaou , Ofer Lahav

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to produce intense bursts of neutrinos preceding the emergence of their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. The prompt detection of such neutrino signals offers a unique opportunity to trigger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-23 P. A. Duverne , W. K. Mouici , A. Coleiro , J. -G. Ducoin , M. W. Coughlin

We examine the nucleosynthesis in the innermost, neutrino-processed ejecta (a few $10^{-3}\,M_\odot$) of self-consistent, two-dimensional explosion models of core-collapse supernovae for six progenitor stars with different initial masses.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 Shinya Wanajo , Bernhard Müller , Hans-Thomas Janka , Alexander Heger

Heavy sterile neutrinos can be produced in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), which are superb particle generators because of their high densities and temperatures. If the sterile neutrinos are long-lived, these may be produced inside the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-19 Garv Chauhan , R. Andrew Gustafson , Ian M. Shoemaker

The progenitors of many core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are expected to be in binary systems. By performing a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate how CCSN explosions affect their binary companion. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-14 Zheng-Wei Liu , T. M. Tauris , F. K. Roepke , T. J. Moriya , M. Kruckow , R. J. Stancliffe , R. G. Izzard

Most one-dimensional core-collapse simulations fail to explode, yet multi-dimensional simulations often explode. A dominant multi-dimensional effect aiding explosion is neutrino-driven convection. We incorporate a convection model in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Quintin A. Mabanta , Jeremiah W. Murphy , Joshua C. Dolence

We demonstrate that $\sim10\,\textrm{s}$ after the core-collapse of a massive star, a thermonuclear explosion of the outer shells is possible for some (tuned) initial density and composition profiles, assuming that the neutrinos failed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Doron Kushnir , Boaz Katz

We investigate the post-explosion phase in core-collapse supernovae with 2D hydrodynamical simulations and a simple neutrino treatment. The latter allows us to perform 46 simulations and follow the evolution of the 32 successful explosions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 M. Witt , A. Psaltis , H. Yasin , C. Horn , M. Reichert , T. Kuroda , M. Obergaulinger , S. M. Couch , A. Arcones

The quest for the supernova explosion mechanism has been one of the outstanding challenges in computational astrophysics for several decades. Simulations have now progressed to a stage at which the solution appears close and neutrino and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-09 Bernhard Mueller , Hans-Thomas Janka , Andreas Marek , Florian Hanke , Annop Wongwathanarat , Ewald Mueller

In the last decade there has been a remarkable increase in our knowledge about core-collapse supernovae (CC-SNe), and the birthplace of neutron stars, from both the observational and the theoretical point of view. Since the 1930's, with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Nancy Elias-Rosa

Massive ($\geq$8 $M_\odot$) stars perish via one of two fates: core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), which release synthesized heavy elements, or failed supernovae, thereby forming black holes. In the conventional Galactic chemical evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Takuji Tsujimoto

The multidimensional character of the hydrodynamics in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) cores is a key facilitator of explosions. Unfortunately, much of this work has necessarily been performed assuming axisymmetry and it remains unclear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua C. Dolence , Adam Burrows , Jeremiah W. Murphy , Jason Nordhaus

We have performed ab initio neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations in three and two spatial dimensions (3D and 2D) of core-collapse supernovae from the same 15 $M_\odot$ progenitor through 440 ms after core bounce. Both 3D and 2D…

Magnetized and rotating core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are promising candidates for producing long gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae. In this project, we present 34 two-dimensional magnetized core-collapse supernova simulations with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Kuo-Chuan Pan , Yi-Fang Li

Black hole supernovae (BHSNe), the term we use for core-collapse events in which black hole (BH) formation occurs after shock revival but before the explosion is complete, have emerged as a natural outcome of multidimensional simulations as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Oliver Eggenberger Andersen , Evan O'Connor , Liubov Kovalenko , Haakon Andresen , Sean M. Couch

Core-collapse supernova remnants (CCSNRs) are crucial for understanding the final stages of massive star evolution, as they reflect the imprints of their progenitors' pre-explosion activities. However, the evolution of CCSNRs, particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Gaku Kawashima , Shiu-Hang Lee , Keiichi Maeda , Daniel Patnaude

We present neutrino-transport hydrodynamic simulations of electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) in \texttt{FLASH} with new two-dimensional (2D) collapsing progenitor models. These progenitor models feature the 2D modelling of oxygen-flame…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-14 Shuai Zha , Evan P. O'Connor , Sean M. Couch , Shing-Chi Leung , Ken'ichi Nomoto