The physics of core-collapse supernovae

By Stan Woosley, T. Janka. 2005

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Supernovae are nature’s grandest explosions and an astrophysical laboratory in which unique conditions exist that are not achievable on Earth. They are also the furnaces in which most of the elements heavier than carbon have been forged. Scientists have argued for decades about the physical mechanism responsible for these explosions. It is clear that the ultimate energy source is gravity, but the relative roles of neutrinos, fluid instabilities, rotation and magnetic fields continue to be debated.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Galactic electrons and positrons at the Earth: new estimate of the primary and secondary fluxes (2010, background): “20M⊙ can typically liberate a huge amount of energy, ∼ 1053−54 erg, ∼ 99% of which is released in the form of neutrinos when integrated after the cooling phase of the protoneutron star (e.g. Burrows 2000; Woosley & Janka 2005; Janka et al. 2007).”
What can be learned from a future supernova neutrino detection (2017, background): “The neutrino emission continues to accelerate until, at the point of collapse, the neutrino luminosity may be of order ∼ 106 [100] times larger than the photon luminosity.”
The Supernova Gamma-Ray Burst Connection (2006, background): “Models for ordinary core-collapse supernovae have been extensively reviewed by Woosley and Weaver (1986); Bethe (1990); Burrows (2000); Woosley et al. (2002); Buras et al. (2003, 2006); Woosley and Janka (2005); Janka et al. (2005); Mezzacappa (2005).”
Supernova remnants: the X-ray perspective (2011, background): “Core collapse supernovae mark the end of the lives of massive stars; that is, those stars with main sequence masses M & 8 M⊙ (see Woosley and Janka, 2005, for a review).”
Born–Infeld inspired modifications of gravity (2017, background): “Magnetic fields Magnetic fields are thought to play an important role in supernova explosions [368], gamma-ray bursts [302], soft gamma repeaters and quasi-periodic oscillations, anomalous X-ray pulsars [345, 234], etc, and are also fundamental to understand basic observational features of neutron s”