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We present here the first results of two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the neutrino-heating phase in the collapsed core of a 15 solar mass star, where the neutrino transport is treated with a variable Eddington factor method for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. -Th. Janka , R. Buras , M. Rampp

Core-collapse supernovae are dramatic explosions marking the catastrophic end of massive stars. The only means to get direct information about the supernova engine is from observations of neutrinos emitted by the forming neutron star, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Yudai Suwa , Wakana Iwakami Nakano , Shio Kawagoe , Youhei Masada , Shin-ichiro Fujimoto

This is a status report on our endeavor to reveal the mechanism of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) by large-scale numerical simulations. Multi-dimensionality of the supernova engine, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, energy and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-29 Kei Kotake , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Shoichi Yamada , Tomoya Takiwaki , Takami Kuroda , Yudai Suwa , Hiroki Nagakura

We have made core-collapse supernova simulations that allow oscillations between electron neutrinos (or their anti particles) with right-handed sterile neutrinos. We have considered a range of mixing angles and sterile neutrino masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-05 MacKenzie L. Warren , Matthew Meixner , Grant Mathews , Jun Hidaka , Toshitaka Kajino

The remnant of neutron star mergers is dense in neutrinos. By employing inputs from one hydrodynamical simulation of a binary neutron star merger remnant with a black hole of $3\ M_\odot$ in the center, dimensionless spin parameter $0.8$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Meng-Ru Wu , Irene Tamborra , Oliver Just , Hans-Thomas Janka

Neutrinos can rapidly change flavor in the inner dense regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers due to the neutrino fast flavor instability. If the amount of flavor transformation is significant, the FFI could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Sherwood Richers

We report here on recent progress in understanding the birth conditions of neutron stars and the way how supernovae explode. More sophisticated numerical models have led to the discovery of new phenomena in the supernova core, for example a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 H. -Th. Janka , A. Marek , B. Mueller , L. Scheck

Neutrino flavor instabilities have the potential to shuffle neutrinos between electron, mu, and tau flavor states, modifying the core-collapse supernova mechanism and the heavy elements ejected from neutron star mergers. Analytic methods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Sherwood Richers , Donald Willcox , Nicole ford

The main observational properties and resulting classification of supernovae (SNe) are briefly reviewed. Then we discuss the progress in modeling of two basic types of SNe - the thermonuclear and core-collapse ones, with special emphasis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-29 D. K. Nadyozhin

The neutrinos emitted from the proto-neutron star created in a core-collapse supernova must run through a significant amount of turbulence before exiting the star. Turbulence can modify the flavor evolution of the neutrinos imprinting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-22 James P. Kneller , Neel V. Kabadi

With the advent of time-domain astronomy and the game-changing next generation of telescopes, we have unprecedented opportunities to explore the most energetic events in our Universe through electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Irene Tamborra

Core collapse of massive stars leads to different fates for various physical factors, which gives different spectra of the emitted neutrinos. We focus on the supernova relic neutrinos (SRNs) as a probe to investigate the stellar collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-27 Yosuke Ashida , Ken'ichiro Nakazato

We present results of 3-neutrino flavor evolution simulations for the neutronization burst from an O-Ne-Mg core-collapse supernova. We find that nonlinear neutrino self-coupling engineers a single spectral feature of stepwise conversion in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Huaiyu Duan , George M. Fuller , J. Carlson , Yong-Zhong Qian

Thanks to the long-term collaborations between nuclear and astrophysics, we have good understanding on stellar nucleosynthesis, except for the elements around Ti and some neutron-capture elements. From the comparison between observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-28 Chiaki Kobayashi

Rapid progress has been made during recent years in the understanding of the flavour oscillations that occur as neutrinos traverse through supernova. The previous paradigm has given way and it is now clear that the neutrino signals we shall…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-19 Huaiyu Duan , James P Kneller

I discuss the state of the art in the search for neutrinos from galactic stellar collapses and the future perspectives of this field. The implications for the neutrino physics of a high statistics supernova neutrino burst detection by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Fabrizio Cei

In the standard supernova picture, type Ib/c and type II supernovae are powered by the potential energy released in the collapse of the core of a massive star. In studying supernovae, we primarily focus on the ejecta that makes it beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Chris L. Fryer

The relative rate of neutron stars and black holes produced by the collapse of massive stars is highly uncertain. We simulate the stellar collapse of $195$ progenitors with masses between $9\, M_\odot$ and $120\, M_\odot$, incorporating a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Mariam Gogilashvili , Irene Tamborra

The eV-scale sterile neutrino has been proposed to explain some anomalous results in experiments, \textit{such as} the deficit of reactor neutrino fluxes and the excess of $\bar{\nu}_\mu\to\bar{\nu}_e$ in LSND. This hypothesis can be tested…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-19 Jian Tang , TseChun Wang , Meng-Ru Wu

Stars of ~8-100 solar masses end their lives as core-collapse supernovae (SNe). In the process they emit a powerful burst of neutrinos, produce a variety of elements, and leave behind either a neutron star or a black hole. The wide mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-30 Yong-Zhong Qian