Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-07-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, LaTeX, 1 postscript figure, in W. Hillebrandt and E. Mueller, eds., Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on "Nuclear Astr
Scientific paper
New two-dimensional, high-resolution calculations of a core collapse supernova in a 15 Msol blue supergiant are presented, which cover the entire evolution from shock revival until the first few hours of the explosion. Explosive nucleosynthesis, its dependence upon convective mixing during the first second of the evolution and the growth of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities at the composition interfaces of the progenitor star are all modeled consistently and allow for a comparison with observational data. We confirm our earlier findings, that the perturbations induced by neutrino driven convection are sufficiently strong to seed large-scale Rayleigh-Taylor mixing and to destroy the onion-shell structure of the stellar He-core. As in our earlier calculations, the strong deceleration of the nickel clumps in the layers adjacent to the He/H interface suggests that the high velocities of iron-group elements observed in SN 1987A cannot be explained on the basis of currently favored progenitor models. Possible solutions to this dilemma and the implications of the mixing for type Ib explosions are briefly discussed.
Janka H.-Th.
Kifonidis Konstantinos
Mueller Ewald
Plewa Tomasz
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