Physics
Scientific paper
May 1996
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American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint Meeting, May 2-5, 1996, abstract #F4.02
Physics
Scientific paper
Supernova 1987A has confirmed the basic core collapse paradigm for Type-II supernovae by the detection of electron antineutrinos in the Kamiokande II and IMB experiments several hours prior to the first optical sighting. Furthermore, the evidence of large-scale mixing and overturn in the debris of SN1987A indicates that hydrodynamic instabilities occurred early on in the evolution of the remnant and have played a crucial role in the explosion mechanism itself. Despite these important clues, and many years of theoretical and numerical investigation of increasing sophistication, the core collapse explosion mechanism is still not well understood. I review the status of the currently favored scenario, which is the transfer of energy from hot material at small radii to cooler material in the region further out behind the stalled shock by a combination of neutrino flow and hydrodynamic instabilities. The nature and role of these hydrodynamic instabilities is explored in detail on the basis of linear perturbation analyses and multidimensional hydrodynamic simulations. Neutrino flow is shown to have an inhibiting effect on convection in the region immediately below the neutrinosphere. Farther in, material is likely to be semiconvective for several hundred milliseconds, but stable thereafter. Convection in the neutrino heated-layer outside the neutrinosphere and below the shock front is found to help but by no means guarantee and explosion. General relativistic effects are shown to be deleterious for neutrino heated explosions. The role of the progenitor structure is discussed on the basis of two distinct but representative examples. Finally, the importance of several neutrino processes not incorporated in current calculations is assessed.
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