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astro-ph.HE2025

Inhomogeneous stellar mixing in the final hours before the Cassiopeia A supernova

Toshiki Sato, Kai Matsunaga, Hiroyuki Uchida +10

Understanding stars and their evolution is a key goal of astronomical research and has long been a focus of human interest. In recent years, theorists have paid much attention to t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Evolution and explosions of metal enriched supermassive stars: proton rich general relativistic instability supernovae

Chris Nagele, Hideyuki Umeda, Koh Takahashi

The assembly of supermassive black holes poses a challenge primarily because of observed quasars at high redshift, but additionally because of the current lack of observations of i…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Pulsations of primordial supermassive stars induced by a general relativistic instability; visible to JWST at z12

Chris Nagele, Hideyuki Umeda, Koh Takahashi +1

The origin of high-redshift quasars and their supermassive black hole engines is unclear. One promising solution is the collapse of a primordial supermassive star. Observational co…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 8 cited

Neutrino emission from the collapse of population III supermassive stars

Chris Nagele, Hideyuki Umeda, Koh Takahashi +2

We calculate the neutrino signal from Population III supermassive star collapse using a neutrino transfer code originally developed for core collapse supernovae and massive star co…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

Ultra-delayed neutrino-driven explosion of rotating massive-star collapse

Sho Fujibayashi, Koh Takahashi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi +1

Long-term neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for the collapse of rotating massive stars that are evolved from He-stars with their…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 41 cited

Impact of binary interactions on the diffuse supernova neutrino background

Shunsaku Horiuchi, Tomoya Kinugawa, Tomoya Takiwaki +2

Binary interactions, especially mass transfer and mergers, can strongly influence the evolution of massive stars and change their final properties and the occurrence of supernovae.…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Pulsational pair-instability and the mass gap of Population III Black Holes: Effects of overshooting

Hideyuki Umeda, Takashi Yoshida, Chris Nagele +1

Since the discovery of GW190521, several proposals have been put forward to explain the formation of a black hole in the mass gap caused by (pulsational) pair-instability, $M = 65-…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 26 cited

The Final Fate of Supermassive Pop III Stars: Explosion or Collapse?

Chris Nagele, Hideyuki Umeda, Koh Takahashi +2

We investigate the possibility of a supernova in supermassive () population III stars induced by a general relativistic instability occurring in the helium…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

First Detection of X-Ray Line Emission from Type IIn Supernova 1978K with XMM-Newton's RGS

Y. Chiba, S. Katsuda, T. Yoshida +2

We report on robust measurements of elemental abundances of the Type IIn supernova SN 1978K, based on the high-resolution X-ray spectrum obtained with the Reflection Grating Spectr…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 60 cited

Matter Mixing in Aspherical Core-collapse Supernovae: Three-dimensional Simulations with Single Star and Binary Merger Progenitor Models for SN 1987A

Masaomi Ono, Shigehiro Nagataki, Gilles Ferrand +5

We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of aspherical core-collapse supernovae focusing on the matter mixing in SN 1987A. The impacts of four progenitor (pre-supernov…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 53 cited

Fitting formulae for evolution tracks of massive stars under extreme metal poor environments for population synthesis calculations and star cluster simulations

Ataru Tanikawa, Takashi Yoshida, Tomoya Kinugawa +2

We have devised fitting formulae for evolution tracks of massive stars with under extreme metal poor (EMP) environments for $\log (Z/Z_\odot) =…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1 cited

Gravitational waves from very massive stars collapsing to a black hole

Haruki Uchida, Masaru Shibata, Koh Takahashi +1

We compute gravitational waves emitted by the collapse of a rotating very massive star (VMS) core leading directly to a black hole in axisymmetric numerical-relativity simulations.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 41 cited

The Evolution towards Electron-capture Supernovae: the Flame Propagation and the Pre-bounce Electron-neutrino Radiation

K. Takahashi, K. Sumiyoshi, S. Yamada +2

A critical mass ONe core with a high ignition density is considered to end in gravitational collapse leading to neutron star formation. Being distinct from a Fe core collapse, the…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 12 cited

Black Hole Formation and Explosion from Rapidly Rotating Very Massive Stars

Haruki Uchida, Masaru Shibata, Koh Takahashi +1

We explore the formation process of a black hole (BH) through the pair-instability collapse of a rotating Population III very massive star in axisymmetric numerical relativity. As…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 148 cited

On the minimum mass of neutron stars

Yudai Suwa, Takashi Yoshida, Masaru Shibata +2

We investigate remnant neutron star masses (in particular, the minimum allowed mass) by performing advanced stellar evolution calculations and neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simu…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 53 cited

The Low Detection Rate of Pair Instability Supernovae and the Effect of the Core Carbon Fraction

Koh Takahashi

The pair instability supernova (PISN) is a common fate of very massive stars (VMSs). Current theory predicts the initial and the CO core mass ranges for PISNe of 140-260 $M_\…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 31 cited

Explosive nucleosynthesis of ultra-stripped Type Ic supernovae: application to light trans-iron elements

Takashi Yoshida, Yudai Suwa, Hideyuki Umeda +2

We investigate the explosive nucleosynthesis during two dimensional neutrino-driven explosion of ultra-stripped Type Ic supernovae evolved from 1.45 and 1.5 M CO stars. The…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 17 cited

Ideal Engine Durations For Gamma-Ray-Burst-Jet Launch

Hamid Hamidani, Koh Takahashi, Hideyuki Umeda +1

Aiming to study GRB engine duration, we present numerical simulations to investigate collapsar jets. We consider typical explosion energy ( erg) but different engine durat…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Neutrino emissions in all flavors up to the pre-bounce of massive stars and the possibility of their detections

Chinami Kato, Hiroki Nagakura, Shun Furusawa +5

This paper is a sequel to our previous one (Kato et al.2015), which calculated the luminosities and spectra of electron-type anti-neutrinos ('s) from the progenitors of co…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 86 cited

Light-curve and spectral properties of ultra-stripped core-collapse supernovae leading to binary neutron stars

Takashi J. Moriya, Paolo A. Mazzali, Nozomu Tominaga +7

We investigate light-curve and spectral properties of ultra-stripped core-collapse supernovae. Ultra-stripped supernovae are the explosions of heavily stripped massive stars which…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 41 cited

Presupernova neutrino events relating to the final evolution of massive stars

Takashi Yoshida, Koh Takahashi, Hideyuki Umeda +1

When a supernova explosion occurs in neighbors around hundreds pc, current and future neutrino detectors are expected to observe neutrinos from the presupernova star before the exp…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 1 cited

Pre-supernova neutrino emissions from ONe cores in the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae: are they distinguishable from those of Fe cores?

Chinami Kato, Milad Delfan Azari, Shoichi Yamada +4

Aiming to distinguish two types of progenitors of core collapse supernovae, i.e., one with a core composed mainly of oxygen and neon (abbreviated as ONe core) and the other with an…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 94 cited

Neutrino-driven explosions of ultra-stripped type Ic supernovae generating binary neutron stars

Yudai Suwa, Takashi Yoshida, Masaru Shibata +2

We study explosion characteristics of ultra-stripped supernovae (SNe), which are candidates of SNe generating binary neutron stars (NSs). As a first step, we perform stellar evolut…