The diversity of core-collapse supernovae

该项目旨在利用高端计算机模拟技术，全面了解大质量恒星的爆炸，如核心坍缩超新星。这样的爆炸有很多种，产生于不同类别的祖恒星。这个项目试图彻底理解这种多样性。它努力提供由磁场驱动的超新星、产生黑洞的超新星、双星系统中的超新星以及能量最高的中微子驱动的超新星的模拟。该项目还希望更好地将数值模拟、超新星及其残余物的观测以及超新星在星系化学历史记录中留下的核合成指纹联系起来。

This project aims to develop a comprehensive picture of the explosions of massive stars as core-collapse supernovae using high-end computer simulations. Such explosions come in many varieties and arise from different classes of progenitor stars. This project seeks to thoroughly understand this diversity. It endeavours to provide simulations of supernovae powered by magnetic fields, supernovae that produce black holes, supernovae in binary systems, and the most energetic neutrino-driven supernovae. The project also aspires to better link numerical simulations, observations of supernovae and their remnants, and the nucleosynthesis fingerprints that supernovae have left in the chemical history record of galaxies.