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The discovery of early bumps in some type-I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) before the main peaks offers an important clue to their energy source mechanisms. In this paper, we updated an analytic magnetar-powered model for fitting the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Xiao-Feng Wang , Sheng Yang

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are rare transients that are $\sim 10 - 100$ times more luminous than ordinary stellar explosions, reaching peak optical luminosities $\sim 10^{44} - 10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$. The energy source powering SLSNe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-27 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura , Indrek Vurm , Brian D. Metzger

The question why and how core-collapse supernovae (SNe) explode is one of the central and most long-standing riddles of stellar astrophysics. A solution is crucial for deciphering the SN phenomenon, for predicting observable signals such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 H. -Th. Janka

In this paper we collect 19 hydrogen-deficient superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and fit their light curves, temperature evolution, and velocity evolution based on the magnetar-powered model. To obtain the best-fitting parameters, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Liang-Duan Liu , Shan-Qin Wang , Ling-Jun Wang , Zi-Gao Dai , Hai Yu , Zong-Kai Peng

This work presents the semi-analytical light curve modelling results of 11 stripped-envelope SNe (SESNe), where millisecond magnetars potentially drive their light curves. The light-curve modelling is performed utilizing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Amit Kumar

Multiple observational lines of evidence support a connection between hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) and long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Both events require a powerful central energy source, usually attributed to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson , Matt Nicholl , Tuguldur Sukhbold

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) remain an intriguing topic in supernova (SN) transient astronomy. While the majority of SLSNe are shown to be explained by energy streaming from the newly born magnetar, there are others which are powered by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Alexandra Kozyreva , Matteo Bugli , Alexey Mironov , Petr Baklanov

Despite indications that superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) originate from massive progenitors, the lack of a uniformly analyzed statistical sample has so far prevented a detailed view of the progenitor mass distribution. Here we present and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Peter K. Blanchard , Edo Berger , Matt Nicholl , V. Ashley Villar

I examine a mechanism by which two fast narrow jets launched by a newly formed neutron star (NS), or a black hole (BH), at the center of a core collapse supernovae (CCSN), form two slow massive wide (SMW) jets. Such SMW jets are assumed as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Noam Soker

Magnetorotational supernovae are a rare type of core-collapse supernovae where the magnetic field and rotation play a central role in the dynamics of the explosion. We present the post-processed nucleosynthesis of state-of-the-art…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Moritz Reichert , Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Angel Aloy , Michael Gabler , Almudena Arcones , Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Core collapse supernovae (SN) are the final stages of stellar evolution in massive stars during which the central region collapses, forms a neutron star (NS), and the outer layers are ejected. Recent explosion scenarios assumed that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Khokhlov , Peter Hoeflich

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) have been suggested to be powered by strongly magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron stars which are often called magnetars. In this process, rotational energy of the magnetar is radiated via magnetic dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-21 Takashi J. Moriya , Thomas M. Tauris

We analyze the properties of 42 rapidly rotating, low metallicity, quasi-chemically homogeneously evolving stellar models in the mass range between 4 and 45 $\,\mathrm{M}_\odot$ at the time of core collapse. Such models were proposed as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 David R. Aguilera-Dena , Norbert Langer , John Antoniadis , Bernhard Müller

I analyse some properties of the luminous transient event SN 2019zrk and conclude that jets were the main powering sources of the pre-explosion outburst (precursor) and ejection of a massive circumstellar matter (CSM), of the very energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Noam Soker

Two recently discovered very luminous supernovae (SNe) present stimulating cases to explore the extents of the available theoretical models. SN 2011kl represents the first detection of a supernova explosion associated with an ultra-long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Melina C. Bersten , Omar G. Benvenuto , Mariana Orellana , Ken'ichi Nomoto

In contrast to regular core-collapse supernovae, explosions of rapidly rotating massive stars can develop jets, fast collimated outflows directed along the rotational axis. Depending on the rate of rotation and the magnetic field strength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 M. Obergaulinger , M. Reichert

The light curves of some luminous supernovae are suspected to be powered by the spindown energy of a rapidly rotating magnetar. Here we describe a possible signature of the central engine: a burst of shock breakout emission occurring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Daniel Kasen , Brian D. Metzger , Lars Bildsten

Core-collapse supernovae are, despite their spectacular visual display, neutrino events. Virtually all of the 10^53 ergs of gravitational binding energy released in the formation of the nascent neutron star is carried away in the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 O. E. B. Messer , A. Mezzacappa , S. W. Bruenn , M. W. Guidry

We review recent progress in the theory of jet production, with particular emphasis on the possibility of 1) powerful jets being produced in the first few seconds after collapse of a supernova core and 2) those jets being responsible for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David L. Meier , Masanori Nakamura

A rapidly spinning magnetar in a young supernova (SN) can produce a superluminous transient by converting a fraction of its rotational energy into radiation. Here, we present the first three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations ever…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Ke-Jung Chen , S. E. Woosley , Daniel J. Whalen