The book chapter in “Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics From Space Debris to Cosmology” has now been published. In addition to basic overview of core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism, the writing includes side-by-side comparisons of predictions of explosion models (explodes yes/no, explosion energy, nickel mass, compact remnant mass) and observational inferences (explosion energy, nickel mass, neutron star mass).
See the full text at https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-38509-5_7
