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Transient surveys have recently discovered a class of supernovae (SNe) with extremely rapidly declining light curves. These events are also often relatively faint, especially compared to Type Ia SNe. The common explanation for these events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Io Kleiser , Daniel Kasen

Growing observational evidence suggests that enhanced mass loss from the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) is common during $\sim1$ yr preceding the explosion, creating an optically thick circum-stellar medium (CSM) shell at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-04 E. Waxman , T. Wasserman , E. Ofek , A. Gal-Yam

In low-mass core-collapse supernova (CCSN) progenitors, nuclear burning beyond oxygen can become explosive under degenerate conditions, triggering eruptive mass loss before the final explosion. We investigate such pre-SN eruptions using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-15 Shuai Zha , Han Lin , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

Core-collapse supernovae produce fast shocks which expand into the dense circumstellar medium (CSM) of the stellar progenitor. Cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated at these shocks can induce the growth of electromagnetic fluctuations in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-03 V. Dwarkadas , A. Marcowith , M. Renaud , V. Tatischeff , G. Giacinti

Numerous core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar material (CSM). Bright radio emission years after the SN is one such indication of dense CSM at large distances from the star, which may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 Samantha C. Wu , Daichi Tsuna

Type II-P supernov\ae~(SNe), the most common core-collapse SNe type, result from the explosions of red supergiant stars. Their detection in the radio domain testifies of the presence of relativistic electrons, and shows that they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 P. Cristofari , A. Marcowith , M. Renaud , V. V. Dwarkadas , V. Tatischeff , G. Giacinti , E. Peretti , H. Sol

Early observations of supernova light curves are powerful tools for shedding light on the pre-explosion structures of their progenitors and their mass-loss histories just prior to explosion. Some core-collapse supernovae that are detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Ehud Nakar , Anthony L. Piro

When the ejecta of supernovae interact with the progenitor star's circumstellar environment, a strong shock is driven back into the ejecta, causing the material to become bright optically and in X-rays. Most notably, as the shock traverses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-18 Daniel Patnaude , Kathryn Weil , Robert Fesen , Dan Milisavljevic , Ralph Kraft

Shock breakout is the earliest, readily-observable emission from a core-collapse supernova explosion. Observing supernova shock breakout may yield information about the nature of the supernova shock prior to exiting the progenitor and, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Sean M. Couch , David Pooley , J. Craig Wheeler , Milos Milosavljevic

Dense circumstellar material (CSM) is thought to play an important role in observed luminous optical transients: if such CSM is shocked, e.g. by ejecta expelled from the progenitor during core-collapse, then radiation produced by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Ben Margalit

We simulate shock propagation in a wide range of core-collapsing presupernovae: from compact WR stars exploding as SNe Ib/c through very extended envelopes of the narrow-line SNe IIn. We find that the same physical phenomenon of radiating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Blinnikov , N. Chugai , P. Lundqvist , D. Nadyozhin , S. Woosley , E. Sorokina

We study high-energy (HE) neutrino production from interactions between supernova (SN) ejecta and the surrounding circumstellar material (CSM), focusing on regular Type~II and Type~IIn SNe. Using observationally inferred CSM density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Yi-Long Duan , Tuohuniyazi Tuniyazi , Gang Guo

We investigate effects of aspherical energy deposition in core-collapse supernovae on the light curve of the supernova shock breakout. We performed two-dimensional hydrodynamical calculations of an aspherical supernova explosion to obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be one of the major acceleration sites of galactic cosmic rays (CRs) and an important class of objects for high-energy astrophysics. SNRs produce multi-wavelength, non-thermal emission via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Haruo Yasuda , Shiu-Hang Lee

Recent observations of luminous Type IIn supernovae (SNe) provide compelling evidence that massive circumstellar shells surround their progenitors. In this paper we investigate how the properties of such shells influence the SN lightcurve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-13 Allard Jan van Marle , Nathan Smith , Stanley P. Owocki , Bob van Veelen

We investigate the multiband photometric properties of seven supernovae (SNe) showing double-peaked light-curve evolution and prominent shock-cooling emission, observed by the Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) during its first year of…

The discovery of a population of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), with peak luminosities a factor of ~100 brighter than normal SNe (typically SLSNe have M_V <-21), has shown an unexpected diversity in core-collapse supernova properties.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 A. J. Levan , A. M. Read , B. D. Metzger , P. J. Wheatley , N. R. Tanvir

Type IIb supernovae (SNe IIb) often exhibit an early light curve excess (EE) preceding the main peak powered by radioactive nickel decay. The physical origin of this early emission remains an open question. Among the proposed scenarios,…

Interaction of supernova (SN) ejecta with the optically thick circumstellar medium (CSM) of a progenitor star can result in a bright, long-lived shock breakout event. Candidates for such SNe include Type IIn and superluminous SNe. If some…

Many Type II supernovae (SNe) show hot early (~30 days) emission, and a diversity in their light curves extending from the Type IIP to the Type IIL, which can be explained by interaction with dense and confined circumstellar material (CSM).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktoriya Morozova , Anthony L. Piro , Jim Fuller , Schuyler D. Van Dyk