Core-collapse model effects on nucleosynthesis

✍ Scribed by C.L. Fryer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 195 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1387-6473
• DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2003.11.040

✦ Synopsis

Although simulations of the core-collapse supernova mechanism have not yet converged on a final answer, much of the intuition gained from these simulations can change our current picture of supernova nucleosynthesis. Here we review the basic supernova explosion mechanism with an update on the current status of this mechanism. We then discuss, how this picture leads to changes in the current calculations of nucleosynthetic yields from these outbursts. The behavior of the electron fraction, mixing and explosion energy (as a function of mass) are quite different, than the assumptions used in many nucleosynthesis calculations, and we will focus on these issues.