Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988stin...8925787c&link_type=abstract
Presented in Lecture at Summer School in Nuclear Physics, Corvallis, OR, 17 Jun. - 8 Jul. 1988
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Equations Of State, Neutron Stars, Nuclear Astrophysics, Stellar Evolution, Supernova 1987A, Astrodynamics, Electron Capture, Gravitational Collapse, Nuclear Reactions, Stellar Cores
Scientific paper
In this paper, I'll give a general introduction to Supernova Theory, beginning with the presupernova evolution and ending with the later stages of the explosion. This will be distilled from a colloquium type of talk. It is necessary to have the whole supernova picture in one's mind's eye when diving into some of its nooks and crannies, as it is quite a mess of contradictory ingredients. We will have some discussion of supernova 1987a, but will keep our discussion more general. Second, we'll look at the infall and bounce of the star, seeing why it goes unstable, what dynamics it follows as it collapses, and how and why it bounces back. From there, we will go on to look at the equation of state (EOS) in more detail. We'll consider the cases T = 0 and T greater than 0. We'll focus on rho less than rho(0), and then rho greater than rho(0) and the EOS of neutron stars, and whether or not they contain cores of strange matter. There are many things we could discuss here and not enough time. If I had more lectures, the remaining time would focus on two more questions of special interest to nuclear physicists: the electron capture reactions and neutrino transport. If time permitted, we'd have some discussion of the nucleosynthetic reactions in the explosion's debris as well. However, we cannot cover such material adequately, and I have chosen these topics because they are analytically tractable, pedagogically useful, and rather important.
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