U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts

该奖项支持来自加州大学圣克鲁斯分校的博士后和研究生Stanford Woosley与德国慕尼黑加兴马克斯普朗克天体物理研究所的Wolfgang Hillebrandt的合作。这些小组将结合他们的专业知识来研究大质量恒星的演化和动力学。这些短命的巨行星以超新星的形式爆炸，产生了新一代的恒星、黑洞、中子星，以及构成所有物质的元素。具体研究的主题包括大质量恒星的演化、明亮超新星SN 1987A的祖先的演化、大质量恒星的爆炸机制、大质量恒星的爆炸机制、“失败的超新星”、基于黑洞吸积恒星质量物体的伽马射线爆发模型，以及中微子驱动的风。

9909999WoosleyThis award supports Stanford Woosley, a post-doctoral student, and a graduate student from the University of California-Santa Cruz in a collaboration with Wolfgang Hillebrandt of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching bei Muenchen, Germany. The groups will combine their expertise to investigate the evolution and dynamics of massive stars. These short-lived giants explode as supernovae giving rise to entire new generations of stars, black holes, neutron stars, and the elements that make up all matter. Specific topics to be investigated are evolution of massive stars, the evolution of the progenitor of the bright supernova SN 1987A, the explosion mechanism for massive stars, the explosion mechanism for massive stars, "failed supernovae," models for gamma-ray bursts based on the accretion of stellar-mass objects by black holes, and neutrino-driven winds.