Massive Stars as Progenitors of Supernovae and GRBs

Authors
  • N. Langer
  • A.J. van Marle
  • A.J.T. Poelarends
  • S.C. Yoon
Publication date 2007
Book title From Stars to Galaxies: Building the Pieces to Build Up the Universe
Volume | Issue number 374
Pages (from-to) 61
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract The evolutionary fate of massive stars in our Milky Way is thought to be reasonably well understood: stars above ˜ 8 M_o produce neutron stars and supernovae, while those above ˜ 20...30 M_o are presumed to form black holes. At metallicities below that of the SMC, however, our knowledge becomes poor. We show that, possibly, a type of supernova dominates in the low-Z universe which hardly occurs at solar metallicity, and that stars of only 10 M_o initially may form black holes rather than neutron stars.
Document type Conference contribution
Note Massive Stars as Progenitors of Supernovae and GRBs
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ASPC..374...61L
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