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A Massive Star's Dying Breaths: Pulsating Red Supergiants and Their Resulting Type IIP Supernovae
Jared A. Goldberg, Lars Bildsten, Bill Paxton
Massive stars undergo fundamental-mode and first-overtone radial pulsations with periods of 100-1000 days as Red Supergiants (RSGs). At large amplitudes, these pulsations substanti…
Inferring Explosion Properties from Type II-Plateau Supernova Light Curves
Jared A. Goldberg, Lars Bildsten, Bill Paxton
We present advances in modeling Type IIP supernovae using MESA for evolution to shock breakout coupled with STELLA for generating light and radial velocity curves. Explosion models…
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Pulsating Variable Stars, Rotation, Convective Boundaries, and Energy Conservation
Bill Paxton, R. Smolec, Josiah Schwab +14
We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). RSP is a new functionality in MESAstar that models the…
Fast and Luminous Transients from the Explosions of Long Lived Massive White Dwarf Merger Remnants
Jared Brooks, Josiah Schwab, Lars Bildsten +4
We study the evolution and final outcome of long-lived ( years) remnants from the merger of a He white dwarf (WD) with a more massive C/O or O/Ne WD. Using Modules f…
Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions
Bill Paxton, Josiah Schwab, Evan B. Bauer +10
We update the capabilities of the software instrument Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA) and enhance its ease of use and availability. Our new approach to locat…
Accretion-Induced Collapse From Helium Star + White Dwarf Binaries
Jared Brooks, Josiah Schwab, Lars Bildsten +2
Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) occurs when an O/Ne white dwarf (WD) grows to nearly the Chandrasekhar mass (), reaching central densities that trigger electron captur…