The Death Throes of Massive Stars

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• Evan O'Connor
• Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00
• Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

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Core collapse supernovae play many important roles in astronomy and astrophysics. They trigger and regulate star formation through the energy they inject into the interstellar medium and they forge and disperse elements that seed the next generation of stars. On much more compact scales, which is the focus area of this talk, core collapsing stars are the birth sites of neutron stars and black holes, and therefore they are the gateway to the compact Universe. Numerical simulations of the core collapse have rapidly progressed in the last decade. Explosions are now readily obtained, the key ingredient being multidimensionality. This colloquium will review recent progress in understanding the central engines at the heart of core-collapse supernovae. I’ll touch upon how we can still use 1D simulations to understand the population as a whole, 2D simulations to systematically study theoretical uncertainties and explore the multimessenger signals, and 3D simulations to push our understanding of these extreme events.

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Colloquia series.

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