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The explosion of massive stars (type II supernovae) is one of the most violent events occurring in the Universe. When a stellar core collapses to form a neutron star its density becomes larger than the density of nuclear matter and its temperature rises beyond 100 MeV. The physics of the explosion involves a variety of complex problems such as the calculation of the equation of state from 109 g·cm−3 to nuclear density, the mechanism of neutrino transport, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities and general relativistic hydrodynamics. The purpose of these lectures is to propose a pedagogical introduction to supernova physics. After a summary of the observational data, the main theoretical results obtained during the past fifteen years are presented and discussed.
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Mochkovitch, R. (1994). An introduction to the physics of type II supernova explosions. In: Latal, H., Schweiger, W. (eds) Matter Under Extreme Conditions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 440. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58689-X_42
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