Explosive Ideas about Massive Stars - from Observations to Modeling
Explosive Ideas about Massive Stars - from Observations to Modeling
10-13 August 2011 AlbaNova University Center
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Core-collapse supernova progenitors
 
In the last fifteen years, searches for the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae
in archival Hubble Space Telescope images have yielded progenitor candidates for ~10
nearby supernovae, and upper limits on the luminosity and mass for a further ~20. In
this talk, I discuss recent results from ongoing progenitor searches. In particular,
I focus on some of the open questions in progenitor research: whether all faint Type
IIP supernovae arise from low (~8M) progenitors, why we have not detected any high
mass red supergiant progenitors thus-far, and whether recent results demonstrate that
some stars can in fact explode as yellow supergiants.
 
Id: 384
Place: AlbaNova University Center
Room: Oskar Klein
Starting date:
10-Aug-2011   14:30
Duration: 30'
Primary Authors: Mr. FRASER, Morgan (Queens University Belfast)
Presenters: Mr. FRASER, Morgan
 
Included in session: Supernova Progenitors