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Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae
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The extremely luminous supernova SN 2006gy (ref. 1) challenges the traditional view that the collapse of a stellar core is the only mechanism by which a massive star makes a supernova, because it seems too luminous by more than a factor of ten. Here we report that the brightest supernovae in the modern Universe arise from collisions between shells of matter ejected by massive stars that undergo an interior instability arising from the production of electron–positron pairs. This ‘pair instability’ leads to explosive burning that is insufficient to unbind the star, but ejects many solar masses of the envelope. After the first explosion, the remaining core contracts and searches for a stable burning state. When the next explosion occurs, several solar masses of material are again ejected, which collide with the earlier ejecta. This collision can radiate 1050 erg of light, about a factor of ten more than an ordinary supernova. Our model is in good agreement with the observed light curve for SN 2006gy and also shows that some massive stars can produce more than one supernova-like outburst.
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“…first observed event that instigated these ideas of massive CSM shell collisions (Ofek et al. 2007, Smith & McCray 2007, Smith et al. 2007, 2010b, Woosley et al. 2007), but a number of very luminous SNe IIn have been studied in detail since then, including objects like SN 2006tf (Smith et al.…”
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- Authors
- Woosley, S. E., Blinnikov, S., & Heger, A.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2007-11-15
- Volume
- 450
- Issue
- 7168
- Pages
- 390-392
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2131213682
- Cited by
- 664
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 11.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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