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Supernova nucleosynthesis: a review
Shuai Zha, Yudong Luo, Zhanwen Han
Supernovae are major drivers of cosmic chemical evolution. They synthesize heavy elements and disperse them into the interstellar medium via their explosion shocks. Light elements…
Surrogate models for type II supernovae: Probing low-energy explosions and interaction-free regimes
Zhengyang Zhang, Shuai Zha, Nikhil Sarin +3
To address the computational bottleneck of analyzing type II supernova samples from surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, we present two STELLA-based neural-network…
Formation of black holes from He stars
Gang Long, Bo Wang, Philipp Podsiadlowski +5
Massive He stars are potential candidates of type Ib/c supernova (SN) progenitors. Understanding their final fates remains a key issue in astrophysics. In this work, we investigate…
The Gravitational-Wave Power Gap in Core-Collapse Supernovae: Insights from 60 Axisymmetric Simulations
Haakon Andresen, Xingzao Li, Aurore Betranhandy +3
We analyse the gravitational-wave emission from 60 two-dimensional core-collapse supernova simulations. The models cover a range of progenitors and equations of state. We focus on…
Pre-Supernova Eruptions Triggered by Sudden Energy Deposition in Low-Mass Core-Collapse Supernova Progenitors
Shuai Zha, Han Lin, Xuefei Chen +1
In low-mass core-collapse supernova (CCSN) progenitors, nuclear burning beyond oxygen can become explosive under degenerate conditions, triggering eruptive mass loss before the fin…
Mathematical Anatomy of Neutrino Decoherence in Red Turbulence: A Fractional Calculus Approach
Yiwei Bao, Andrea Addazi, Shuai Zha
We develop an exact framework for neutrino decoherence in power-law correlated turbulent matter, as encountered in core-collapse supernovae. Employing the Nakajima--Zwanzig project…
SN 2022acko: a low-luminosity SNe IIP with signs of early circumstellar interaction
Lin Han, Zhang Jujia, Wang Xiaofeng +13
We present optical-ultraviolet photometry and optical spectra for the type II supernova (SN) 2022acko. The spectroscopic observations span phases from 1.5 to 60 days…
A Systematic Study of Magnetic Fields Impacts on Neutrino Transport in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Yudong Luo, Shuai Zha, Toshitaka Kajino
We quantify the impact of strong magnetic fields (assuming with G) on the neutrino transport in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). Magnet…
SN 2016iog: A fast declining Type II-L supernova with an ultra-faint tail, persistently interacting with circumstellar material
Z. -H. Peng, S. Benetti, Y. -Z. Cai +26
We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the rapidly declining Type IIL supernova (SN) 2016iog. SN 2016iog reached its peak 14 days after explosion,…
Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium XII. SN 2024acyl: A fast, linearly declining Type Ibn supernova with early flash-ionisation features
Y. -Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, K. Maeda +63
We present a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the Type Ibn supernova (SN) 2024acyl. It rises to an absolute magnitude peak of about -17.58 mag in 10.6 days, and displays a…
Three-dimensional equation of state extension of quark matter in Fermi-liquid theory
Zhenyu Zhu, Shuai Zha, Sophia Han
The cold, dense matter equation of state (EoS) determines crucial global properties of neutron stars (NSs), including the mass, radius and tidal deformability. However, a one-dimen…
On the Formation of the Double Neutron Star Binary PSR J1846-0513
Long Jiang, Kun Xu, Shuai Zha +5
The double neutron star PSR J1846-0513 is discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey. The pulsar is rev…
He-accreting oxygen-neon white dwarfs and accretion-induced collapse events
Zhengyang Zhang, Chengyuan Wu, Amar Aryan +3
It has been widely accepted that mass-accreting white dwarfs (WDs) are the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae or electron-capture supernovae. Previous work has shown that the accret…
Phase-transition-induced collapse of proto-compact stars and its implication for supernova explosions
Xu-Run Huang, Shuai Zha, Ming-chung Chu +2
A hadron-quark phase transition (PT) may trigger supernova explosions during stellar core collapse. However, both success and failure have occurred in previous attempts to explode…
Strong magnetic field inside degenerate relativistic plasma and the impacts on the neutrino transport in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Yudong Luo, Shuai Zha, Toshitaka Kajino
We investigate the impacts of strong magnetic fields on neutrino transport in core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) using the leakage scheme. Magnetic field quantizes the momentum of el…
Light curves of the explosion of ONe WD+CO WD merger remnant and type Icn supernovae
Chengyuan Wu, Shuai Zha, Yongzhi Cai +6
Type Icn supernovae (SNe Icn) are a newly detected rare subtype of interacting stripped-envelope supernovae which show narrow P-Cygni lines of highly ionized carbon, oxygen, and ne…
The proper way to spatially decompose the gravitational-wave origin in stellar collapse simulations
Shuai Zha
Gravitational waves (GWs) hold great potential for an unobscured view of protoneutron stars (PNSs) formed as a result of stellar collapses. While waiting for discovery, deepening t…
Unveiling the Nature of Gravitational-Wave Emission in Core-collapse Supernovae with Perturbative Analysis
Shuai Zha, Oliver Eggenberger Andersen, Evan P. O'Connor
Gravitational waves (GWs) can provide crucial information about the central engines of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). In order to unveil the nature of GW emission in CCSNe, we a…
Nucleosynthesis in the Innermost Ejecta of Magnetorotational Supernova Explosions in 3-dimensions
Shuai Zha, Bernhard Müller, Jade Powell
Core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosions powered by rotation and magnetic fields present an interesting astrophysical site for nucleosynthesis that potentially contributes to the…
Gravitational Waves from a Core g-Mode in Supernovae as Probes of the High-Density Equation of State
Pia Jakobus, Bernhard Müller, Alexander Heger +5
Using relativistic supernova simulations of massive progenitor stars with a quark-hadron equation of state (EoS) and a purely hadronic EoS, we identify a distinctive feature in the…
Light Curves of Type IIP Supernovae from Neutrino-driven Explosions of Red Supergiants Obtained by a Semi-analytic Approach
Shuai Zha, Bernhard Müller, Amy Weir +1
Type IIP supernovae (SNe IIP) mark the explosive death of red supergiants (RSGs), evolved massive stars with an extended hydrogen envelope. They are the most common supernova type…
Impact of Rotation on the Multimessenger Signatures of a Hadron-quark Phase Transition in Core-collapse Supernovae
Shuai Zha, Evan O'Connor
We study the impact of rotation on the multimessenger signals of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) with the occurrence of a first-order hadron-quark phase transition (HQPT). We simu…
Detectability of neutrino-signal fluctuations induced by the hadron-quark phase transition in failing core-collapse supernovae
Zidu Lin, Shuai Zha, Evan P. O'Connor +1
We introduce a systematic and quantitative methodology for establishing the presence of neutrino oscillatory signals due to the hadron-quark phase transition (PT) in failing core-c…
Hydrodynamic Simulations of Electron-capture Supernovae: Progenitor and Dimension Dependence
Shuai Zha, Evan P. O'Connor, Sean M. Couch +2
We present neutrino-transport hydrodynamic simulations of electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) in \texttt{FLASH} with new two-dimensional (2D) collapsing progenitor models. These pr…