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We present the results of nucleosynthesis calculations based on multidimensional (2D and 3D) hydrodynamical simulations of the thermonuclear burning phase in SNIa. The detailed nucleosynthetic yields of our explosion models are calculated…

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Accurate description of neutrino opacities is central both to the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) phenomenon and to the validity of the explosion mechanism itself. In this work, we study in a systematic fashion the role of a variety of…

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We present the results of simulations of nucleosynthesis in a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) including the neutrino process. Using the Si layer of $13M_\odot$ zero-metal progenitor as the initial composition, we calculate the…

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Numerical studies of core-collapse supernovae have demonstrated the importance of non-radial motions in pre-collapse progenitors on the explosion outcome. We use the CHIMERA neutrino radiation hydrodynamics code running seven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Chien-Hui Chen , Eric J. Lentz , W. Raphael Hix , J. Austin Harris , Chloe Keeling Sandoval , Stephen W. Bruenn

We provide yields from 189 neutrino-driven core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations covering zero-age main sequence masses between 11 and 75 solar masses and three different metallicities. Our CCSN simulations have two main advantages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Finia P. Jost , Marta Molero , Gerard Navó , Almudena Arcones , Martin Obergaulinger , Francesca Matteucci

Recent studies have highlighted the sensitivity of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) models to electron-capture (EC) rates on neutron-rich nuclei near the N=50 closed-shell region. In this work, we perform a large suite of one-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-15 Zac Johnston , Sheldon Wasik , Rachel Titus , MacKenzie L. Warren , Evan P. O'Connor , Remco Zegers , Sean M. Couch

Most existing criteria derived from progenitor properties of core-collapse supernovae are not very accurate in predicting explosion outcomes. We present a novel look at identifying the explosion outcome of core-collapse supernovae using a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Benny T. -H. Tsang , David Vartanyan , Adam Burrows

We present three-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae using the FLASH code that follow the progression of the explosion to the stellar surface, starting from neutrino-radiation hydrodynamic simulations of the neutrino-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-15 Michael A. Sandoval , W. Raphael Hix , O. E. Bronson Messer , Eric J. Lentz , J. Austin Harris

Observations of type Ia supernovae include information about the characteristic nucleosynthesis associated with these thermonuclear explosions. We consider observational constraints from iron-group elemental and isotopic ratios, to compare…

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

Radioactive isotopes produced in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) provide useful insights into the underlying processes driving the collapse mechanism and the origins of elemental abundances. Their study generates a confluence of major…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Kirby Hermansen , Sean M. Couch , Luke F. Roberts , Hendrik Schatz , MacKenzie L. Warren

Considering general relativistic, two-dimensional (2D) supernova (SN) explosion models of progenitor stars between 8.1 and 27 solar masses, we systematically analyze the properties of the neutrino emission from core collapse and bounce to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 B. Müller , H. -Th. Janka

Observations of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) reveal a wealth of information about the dynamics of the supernova ejecta and its composition but very little direct information about the progenitor. Constraining properties of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Brandon L. Barker , Chelsea E. Harris , MacKenzie L. Warren , Evan P. O'Connor , Sean M. Couch

Galactic core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are a target for current generation gravitational wave detectors with an expected rate of 1-3 per century. The development of data analysis methods used for their detection relies deeply on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Melissa López , Alessandro Favali , Irene Di Palma , Marco Drago , Fulvio Ricci

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

Core-collapse explosions of massive stars leave behind neutron stars, with a known diversity that includes the "Central Compact Objects" (CCOs). Typified by the neutron star discovered near the centre of the Cas A supernova remnant (SNR),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Chelsea Braun , Samar Safi-Harb , Chris Fryer , Ping Zhou

We perform some experimental simulations in spherical symmetry and axisymmetry to understand the post-shock-revival evolution of core-collapse supernovae. Assuming that the stalled shock wave is relaunched by neutrino heating and employing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Yu Yamamoto , Shin-ichiro Fujimoto , Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

Recent discoveries of double neutron star (DNS) mergers and ultra-stripped supernovae (SNe) raise the questions of their origin and connection. We present the first 1D~model of a DNS progenitor system which is calculated self-consistently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Long Jiang , Thomas M. Tauris , Wen-Cong Chen , Jim Fuller

We explore the effects of the neutrino collisional flavor instability (CFI) based on 1D and 2D core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations done using the sophisticated radiation-hydrodynamic code Fornax. We compare the growth rates of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Tianshu Wang , Hiroki Nagakura , Lucas Johns , Adam Burrows

We investigate $r$-process nucleosynthesis in three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of jet-driven supernovae resulting from rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized core-collapse. We explore the effect of…

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