Uncertainties in Supernova Yields

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #150.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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Theoretical nucleosynthetic yields from supernovae are sensitive to both the details of the progenitor star and the explosion calculation. We attempt to comprehensively identify the sources of uncertainties in these yields. In this poster we concentrate on the variations in yields from a single progenitor arising from common 1-dimensional methods of approximating a supernova explosion. 3-dimensional effects in the explosion and the progenitor and improved physics in the progenitor evolution are also given preliminary consideration. For the 1-dimensional explosions we find that both elemental and isotopic yields for Si and heavier elements are a sensitive function of explosion energy. Also, piston-driven and thermal bomb type explosions have different yields for the same explosion energy. Yields derived from 1-dimensional explosions are non-unique. Bulk yields of common elements can vary by factors of several depending upon the assumptions of the calculation.
This work was carried out in part under the auspices of the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory and supported by Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396, by a DOE SciDAC grant DE-FC02-01ER41176, an NNSA ASC grant, and a subcontract to the ASCI FLASH Center at the University of Chicago.

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