Hydrodynamics of core-collapse supernovae and their progenitors

B Müller - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2020 - Springer
Multi-dimensional fluid flow plays a paramount role in the explosions of massive stars as
core-collapse supernovae. In recent years, three-dimensional (3D) simulations of these …

Type Ia Supernova Explosions in Binary Systems: A Review

ZW Liu, FK Röpke, Z Han - Research in Astronomy and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play a key role in the fields of astrophysics and
cosmology. It is widely accepted that SNe Ia arise from thermonuclear explosions of white …

A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source

SJ Smartt, TW Chen, A Jerkstrand, M Coughlin… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Gravitational waves were discovered with the detection of binary black-hole mergers and
they should also be detectable from lower-mass neutron-star mergers. These are predicted …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

Formation of double neutron star systems

TM Tauris, M Kramer, PCC Freire, N Wex… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Double neutron star (DNS) systems represent extreme physical objects and the endpoint of
an exotic journey of stellar evolution and binary interactions. Large numbers of DNS systems …

Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger

BJ Shappee, JD Simon, MR Drout, AL Piro, N Morrell… - Science, 2017 - science.org
On 17 August 2017, Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a) was discovered as the
optical counterpart of the binary neutron star gravitational wave event GW170817. We report …

Millisecond magnetar birth connects FRB 121102 to superluminous supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts

BD Metzger, E Berger, B Margalit - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Subarcsecond localization of the repeating fast radio burst FRB 121102 revealed its
coincidence with a dwarf host galaxy and a steady (" quiescent") nonthermal radio source …

An embedded X-ray source shines through the aspherical AT 2018cow: revealing the inner workings of the most luminous fast-evolving optical transients

R Margutti, BD Metzger, R Chornock… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first extensive radio to γ-ray observations of a fast-rising blue optical
transient, AT 2018cow, over its first∼ 100 days. AT 2018cow rose over a few days to a peak …

Ultra-stripped supernovae: progenitors and fate

TM Tauris, N Langer… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The explosion of ultra-stripped stars in close binaries can lead to ejecta masses< 0.1 M⊙
and may explain some of the recent discoveries of weak and fast optical transients. In Tauris …

Three-dimensional simulations of neutrino-driven core-collapse supernovae from low-mass single and binary star progenitors

B Müller, TM Tauris, A Heger, P Banerjee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a suite of seven 3D supernova simulations of non-rotating low-mass progenitors
using multigroup neutrino transport. Our simulations cover single star progenitors with zero …