Supernova Nucleosynthesis with modern Supernova Simulations

ORAL

Abstract

Supernova explosions of massive stars pose a very complicated mulit-physics

problem but they are key to understand the chemical composition of the solar

system. Self-consistent, numerical simulations of

supernova explosions have made great progress in the last decade and

I am going to show results from nucleosynthesis calculations based

on a self-consistent, three-dimensional supernova simulation and highlight the

challenges that need to be adressed in order to obtain accurate nucleosynthesis

predictions from state-of-the art supernova simulations. Implications of those results

for the presence of long-lived radioactive isotopes in the early solar system

are discussed, including the 10Be, which is produced by neutrino-nucleus interactions.

*This work was supported in part by the US Department of Energy [DE-FG02-87ER40328 (UM)], the Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics and Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program. Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is supported under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 from the U.S. Department of Energy to UT-Battelle, LLC.

Publication: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 904, Issue 2, id.163, 14 pp.

Presenters

  • Andre Sieverding

Authors

  • Andre Sieverding

  • Bernhard Mueller

    • Monash University
  • Yong-Zhong Qian

    • University of Minnesota