https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1608.08939/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726189urn:hackerpapers:mention:1608.08939:20726189Sat, 17 Aug 2019 20:37:27 GMT<p>The range given by Plait in the article at the top for SN 2016 iet is 120-260 M_{sun}, and towards the lower end would be a pulsational pair instability supernova (PPISN) (the &quot;pulsational&quot;, the first P of PPISN, part starts to fall off above 130 M_{sun} and vanishes around 150 M_{sun}). If you&#x27;re feeling ambitious you can digest Woolsey 2017 https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08939v2 which is about pulsational pair instability supernovae (PPISNs) and which by coincidence I had on hand because I was reading about LIGO&#x27;s 50-135 M_{sun} remnant mass gap[1]. The first couple paragraphs of Woolsey 2017…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1608.08939/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.HE