Abstract
It is safe to say that the central riddle of type II supernovae, how a collapsing iron core manages to form a proto-neutron star and a strong shock wave blowing apart the star, has not yet been solved. Yet it is clear from SN 1987A that such events do occur. Although this central problem has not yet been solved, it is possible to study the physics outside the core by generating a shock wave by hand. There are several ways of doing this and the question is whether they are equivalent and when do these artificial methods approach what might really be seen in supernovae? In this study these questions will be discussed. They will be explored in greater detail in a forthcoming paper[1].
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Aufderheide, M.B. (1991). Shock Simulation in Type II Supernovae: A Collection of Recipes. In: Woosley, S.E. (eds) Supernovae. Santa Cruz Summer Workshops in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2988-9_53
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