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We hydrodynamically simulate a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion by launching three pairs of jets in the framework of the jittering-jets explosion mechanism (JJEM), and reproduce a morphology of two opposite circum-jet rings and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

We built a simple toy model of a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) ejecta composed of two shells, an outer low-mass spherical shell and an inner elongated massive shell, and show that it can reproduce the evolution of the photospheric radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 Kobi Shiran , Noam Soker

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion driven by jets in the framework of the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM), and obtain a pair of opposite circum-jet rings similar to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of core-collapse supernovae by launching several pairs of jets into a collapsing core model and show that the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM) can form a point-symmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Jessica Braudo , Amir Michaelis , Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

In comparing the two alternative explosion mechanisms of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), I examine recent three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamical simulations of CCSNe in the frame of the delayed-neutrino explosion mechanism (neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Noam Soker

I examine recent radio observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 89 and identify a point-symmetric morphology composed of two main symmetry axes. I attribute this morphology to a jet-driven explosion in the framework of the jittering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-17 Noam Soker

I examine high-quality CO and SiO molecular maps of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant SN 1987A from the literature and find that the molecular gas exhibits a bipolar structure, correlated with the visible bipolar morphology (termed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Noam Soker

I identify a point-symmetric morphology in the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant SNR G11.2-0.3 composed of three pairs of opposite morphological features, and attribute their shaping to three energetic pairs of jets during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Noam Soker

I examine the morphology of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant (SNR) G0.9+0.1 and reveal a point-symmetrical morphology that implies shaping by three or more pairs of jets, as expected in the jittering jets explosion mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-18 Noam Soker

Using the one-dimensional stellar evolution code MESA, we find that all our models in the initial mass range of 12-40 Mo, regardless of whether they have hydrogen-rich, hydrogen-stripped, or helium+hydrogen-stripped envelopes, have at least…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 Nikki Yat Ning Wang , Dmitry Shishkin , Noam Soker

I further study the manner by which a pair of opposite jets shape the keyhole morphological structure of the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) SN 1997A, now the CCSN remnant (CCSNR) 1987A. By doing so, I strengthen the claim that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Noam Soker

I identify a point-symmetrical morphology in the core-collapse supernova remnant (CCSNR) W44 compatible with shaping by three or more pairs of jets in the jittering jet explosion mechanism (JJEM). Motivated by recent identifications of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Noam Soker

I point out similarities between point-symmetric X-ray morphologies in cooling flow groups and clusters of galaxies, which are observed to be shaped by jets, and point-symmetric morphologies of eight core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnants.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Noam Soker

By examining recently published images in different wavelengths, I identify a point-symmetric morphology in the Large Magellanic Cloud core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant (CCSNR) J0450.4-7050 (SNR 0450-70.9; nicknamed Veliki), which I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Noam Soker

We study the flow structure in the jittering-jets explosion model of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) using 2.5D hydrodynamical simulations and find that some basic requirements for explosion are met by the flow. In the jittering-jets model…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oded Papish , Noam Soker

We conduct one-dimensional stellar-evolution simulations of stars with zero age main sequence masses of $M_{ZAMS} = 8.8-9.45 M_\odot$ towards core collapse by electron capture, and find that the convective zone of the pre-collapse core can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-19 Nikki Yat Ning Wang , Dmitry Shishkin , Noam Soker

I identified a point-symmetric morphology in the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnant (CCSNR) N132D, composed of two symmetry axes: the short symmetry axis extending from the northwest ear and through the center of the iron-rich emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Noam Soker

I find that the dust morphologies in some core-collapse supernova (CCSN) remnants (CCSNRs) possess jet-shaped morphologies, and propose that the properties of the jets that explode the CCSNe and their interaction with the core and envelope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Noam Soker

I compare to each other what I consider to be the two most promising scenarios to explode core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). Both are based on the negative jet feedback mechanism (JFM). In the jittering jets scenario a collapsing core of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 Noam Soker

I estimate some typical properties of the jittering jets explosion mechanism (JJEM) to distinguish it from competing supernova explosion models. From the imprints of jittering jets in the outskirts of some CCSN remnants, I estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Noam Soker
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