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Light Curves of Type II Supernovae

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The observed light curves of Type II supernovae are rather heterogeneous. Understanding the origin of this diversity requires understanding the physical evolution of their ejecta. This is accomplished through the implementation of different radiation hydrodynamics approaches, some of which are summarized in this chapter. We first review an approximate semi-analytic treatment of the evolution of the ejecta that has been developed by several authors in the last two decades and is adequate to obtain a solid physical understanding of several basic processes. We then describe in detail the full radiation-hydrodynamics approach in spherical symmetry, discussing the evolution of the supernova internal structure and describing the physical effects of the ejecta properties on the light curve. These treatments are used to illustrate how to model observables of Type II supernovae (not only the light curves but also the evolution of the photospheric properties), to estimate the physical parameters of the ejecta, and to constrain their progenitors. Finally, we shortly address also the implications of these studies for understanding the use of Type II supernovae as cosmological distance indicators.

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Acknowledgements

I thank Maria Letizia Pumo and Andrea Pastorello for useful suggestions. The figures of this chapter were produced with Matplotlib, a 2D graphics package for Python.

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    Luca Zampieri

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Zampieri, L. (2017). Light Curves of Type II Supernovae. In: Alsabti, A., Murdin, P. (eds) Handbook of Supernovae. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21846-5_26

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