The Search for Failed Supernovae with The Large Binocular Telescope: First Candidates — mentioned by antognini

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 06:33:16 GMT

To provide a little bit of context for this work, one of the open questions in astronomy is how core collapse supernovae work. Computational scientists have struggled for a long time to get simulations of core collapse to explode. Typically to get an explosion they have to artificially insert a "piston" somewhere in the system that kicks the system outwards during the collapse and triggers the shock wave. Over maybe the last decade or so there's been some thought that if our simulations have trouble getting supernovae to explode, then perhaps nature has trouble getting supernovae to explode…

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The Search for Failed Supernovae with The Large Binocular Telescope: First Candidates — mentioned by antognini