The Uncertain Masses of Progenitors of Core Collapse Supernovae and Direct Collapse Black Holes

Eoin Farrell, Jose Groh, Georges Meynet +1

We show that it is not possible to determine the final mass $M_{\mathrm{fin}}$ of a red supergiant (RSG) at the pre-supernova (SN) stage from its luminosity $L$ and effective temperatur…