An Emerging Coherent Picture of Red Supergiant Supernova Explosions

by Dovi Poznanski

at Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar

Wed, 14 Jan 2015, 11:15
Physics building (#54) room 207

Abstract

We now know that the bulk of supernovae result from core collapse of red supergiants of modest initial mass about 8 to 16 solar masses However what happens to stars with somewhat higher masses is rather uncertain and is related to the puzzling mass distribution of compact remnants that is found Furthermore as embarrassing as it is simulations are so far struggling to produce models that robustly explode Yet supernovae seem to do it quite easily I will address these issu

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