Gas Dynamics of the Nickel-56 Decay Heating in Pair-instability Supernovae

Chen, KJ; Woosley, SE; Whalen, DJ

Chen, KJ (corresponding author), Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.; Chen, KJ (corresponding author), Natl Astron Observ Japan, Div Theoret Astron, Tokyo 1818588, Japan.

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 2020; 897 (2):

Abstract

Very massive 140-260Mstars can die as highly energetic pair-instability supernovae (PI SNe) with energies of up to 100 times those of core-collapse SN......

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