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Quasi-Static and Steady-State Pictures for Collapsing Core of Type II Supernova

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D. Sugimoto
Affiliation:
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
A. Sasaki
Affiliation:
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
T. Ebisuzaki
Affiliation:
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo

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Explosion of type II supernova is, in principle, a difficult process: The presupernova star was in gravitationally bound state with negative energy but it has to be divided into two parts, the collapsed core of still lower (negative) energy and the ejected envelope of positive energy. This process is against nature in the sense most of the phenomena in nature proceed towards equipartition of energies. Thus, some finely tuned mechanism should be necessary for successful explosion. Two different mechanisms have been proposed; one is the prompt explosion where the gravitational energy release by the core collapse is transferred to the mantle by a shock wave, and the other is delayed explosion where it is transferred slowly by neutrinos diffusing out of the core. In what follows we shall concentrate in the case of the delayed explosion.

Type
Part III. Chemical and Dynamical Structures of Exploding Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1988

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