The Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Its Observational Signatures

Book chapter

The Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Its Observational Signatures

Pejcha, Ondřej

In: Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics; From Space Debris to Cosmology, pp. 189-211 (2020)

Abstract

The death of massive stars is shrouded in many mysteries. One of them is the mechanism that overturns the collapse of the degenerate iron core into an explosion, a process that determines the supernova explosion energy, properties of the surviving compact remnant, and the nucleosynthetic yields. The number of core-collapse supernova observations has been growing with an accelerating pace thanks to modern time-domain astronomical surveys and new tests of the explosion mechanism are becoming possible. We review predictions of parameterized supernova explosion models and compare them with explosion properties inferred from observed light curves, spectra, and neutron star masses.

Institute authors

Pejcha, Ondřej

Supported by

ERC 803158 — Cat-In-hAT: Catastrophic Interactions of Binary Stars and the Associated Transients, Horizon 2020 ERC Starting Grant 803158
MSMT LTAUSA18093 — Časová proměnnost v astronomii: účast v projektu All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae
Primus/17/SCI/17 — Teorie a pozorování astronomických tranzientů: supernovy z hmotných hvězd a splynutí hvězd

BibTeX

@inbook{UTF813,
  author        = {Pejcha, Ondřej},
  title         = {{The Explosion Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae and Its Observational Signatures}},
  booktitle     = {Reviews in Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics; From Space Debris to Cosmology},
  pages         = {189-211},
  year          = {2020},
  doi           = {10.1007/978-3-030-38509-5\_7},
}