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The 12C + 12C reaction and the impact on nucleosynthesis in massive stars
M. Pignatari, R. Hirschi, M. Wiescher +7
Despite much effort in the past decades, the C-burning reaction rate is uncertain by several orders of magnitude, and the relative strength between the different channels 12C(12C,a…
The Population of Helium-Merger Progenitors: Observational Predictions
C. L. Fryer, K. Belczynski, E. Berger +3
The helium-merger gamma-ray burst progenitor is produced by the rapid accretion onto a compact remnant (neutron star or black hole) when it undergoes a common envelope inspiral wit…
Finding the First Cosmic Explosions I: Pair-Instability Supernovae
Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even, Lucille H. Frey +9
The first stars are the key to the formation of primitive galaxies, early cosmological reionization and chemical enrichment, and the origin of supermassive black holes. Unfortunate…
Supermassive Population III Supernovae and the Birth of the First Quasars
Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even, Joseph Smidt +6
The existence of supermassive black holes as early as z ~ 7 is one of the great unsolved problems in cosmological structure formation. One leading theory argues that they are born…
The Long-Lived UV "Plateau" of SN 2012aw
Amanda J. Bayless, Tyler Pritchard, Peter W. A. Roming +9
Observations with the Swift UVOT have unambiguously uncovered for the first time a long-lived, UV "plateau" in a Type II-P supernova (SN). Although this flattening in slope is hint…
Finding the First Cosmic Explosions II: Core-Collapse Supernovae
Daniel J. Whalen, Candace C. Joggerst, Chris L. Fryer +3
Understanding the properties of Pop III stars is prerequisite to elucidating the nature of primeval galaxies, the chemical enrichment and reionization of the early IGM, and the ori…