The Most Massive Core‐Collapse Supernova Progenitors

2008/06/26 by Roni Waldman, R. Waldman · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Instability #Near-Earth supernova #Neutrino Physics Research #Pair-instability supernova #Stellar evolution #Supernova #Type II supernova #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/591267

16 pages, 5 figures, ApJ accepted

arxiv created 2008/06/26 · openalex publication_date 2008/09/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The discovery of the extremely luminous supernova SN 2006gy, possibly interpreted as a pair instability supernova, renewed the interest in very massive stars. We explore the evolution of these objects, which end their life as pair instability supernovae or as core-collapse supernovae with relatively massive iron cores, up to about 3 M ☉ .

Citations

• The progenitors of core-collapse supernovae
• The Nucleosynthetic Signature of Population III
• Gravitational Collapse and Neutrino Emission of Population III Massive Stars

Cited by

• Analyzing the Largest Spectroscopic Data Set of Hydrogen-poor Super-luminous Supernovae
• Presupernova Evolution of Massive Single and Binary Stars