Theoretical High Energy Astrophysics

超新星是恒星演化过程中能量最大的事件。它们也是相对罕见的事件，在我们银河系中观测到的最后一次黑洞可以追溯到近400年前。因此，1987年2月在16万光年外的大麦哲伦星云中发生的超新星1987A事件被誉为重大天文事件，在观测和理论解释方面都引起了很大的轰动。伍斯利运用流体动力学数值模拟和广泛的核反应网络，在模拟超新星爆发和导致爆炸的前体恒星的演化方面处于领先地位。目前建议的主要焦点是模拟超新星1987A和它的前体恒星。

Supernovae are the most energetic events in the evolution of stars. They also are relatively rare events, with the last one observed in our Milky Way Galaxy dating back nearly 400 years. Therefore, the event of Supernova 1987A that occured in February of 1987 in the Large Magellenic Cloud, at a distance of 160,000 light-years, was hailed as a major astronomical event and created much activity both in observing the event and in explaining it theoretically. Woosley works at the cutting edge of modelling supernova outbursts and the evolution of the precursor stars leading up to the explosion, using hydrodynamic numerical modeling and extensive nuclear reaction networks. The main focus of the current proposal is to model Supernova 1987A and its precursor star.