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Supernova Explosions - The Role of a Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

J. Robert Buchler
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Florida
Mario Livio
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Florida and Department of Physics and Astronomy Tel-Aviv University
Stirling A. Colgate
Affiliation:
Group T-6, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

Abstract

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A two dimensional hydrodynamic study indicates that convectively unstable gradients which develop during core collapse and bounce give rise to large scale core overturn. It is also shown that the concomitant release of neutrini can deposit large amounts of energy and momentum in the infalling envelope and give rise to a powerful supernova explosion.

Type
IX. Supernovae
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980

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