Supernova Research

Luc Dessart Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS-Sorbonne Université, 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France.
email: dessart@iap.fr


Stéphane Blondin Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Pole de l'Etoile, Site de Chateau-Gombert, 38 rue Frederic Joliot-Curie 13388 Marseille cedex 13, France.
email: stephane.blondin@lam.fr


D. John Hillier Department of Physics and Astronomy & Pittsburgh Particle physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Center (PITT PACC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
email: hillier@pitt.edu


Edouard Audit CEA, Maison de la Simulation, USR 3441, CEA-CNRS-INRIA- Univ. Paris-Sud - Univ. de Versailles, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.
email: edouard.audit@cea.fr

This website is a repository of the results from our numerical simulations on supernovae. For each paper, we include the abstract and the model results that were obtained and discussed. Please email dessart@iap.fr if you encounter problems or if some models are missing.

Supernova Studies and model results

SN 1994W: an interacting supernova or two interacting shells?
Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Suvi Gezari, Stephane Basa, and Tom Matheson, 2009, MNRAS, 394, 21. Click here for the results and model spectra.

Type II-Plateau supernova radiation: dependences on progenitor and explosion properties
Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Roni Waldman, and Eli Livne, 2013, MNRAS, 433, 1745. Click here to the results and models.

Radiative properties of pair-instability supernova explosions
Dessart, Luc Waldman, Roni; Livne, Eli; Hillier, D. John; Blondin, Stephane, 2013, MNRAS, 428, 3227. Click here for the results and models.

One-dimensional delayed-detonation models of Type Ia supernovae: Confrontation to observations at bolometric maximum
Stéphane Blondin, Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, and Alexei M. Khokhlov, 2013, MNRAS, 429, 2127. Click here for the results and models.

Constraints on the explosion mechanism and progenitors of Type Ia supernovae
Luc Dessart, Stéphane Blondin, D. John Hillier, and Alexei M. Khokhlov, 2014, MNRAS, 441, 532 Click here for the results, models etc.

Critical ingredients of Type Ia supernova radiative-transfer modelling
Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Stéphane Blondin, and Alexei M. Khokhlov, 2014, MNRAS, 441, 3249. Click here for the results, models etc.

[Co III] versus Na I D in Type Ia supernova spectra
Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Stéphane Blondin, and Alexei M. Khokhlov, 2014, MNRAS, 439, 3114. Click here for the results, models etc.

A one-dimensional Chandrasekhar-mass delayed-detonation model for the broad-lined Type Ia supernova 2002bo
Stéphane Blondin, Luc Dessart, and D. John Hillier, 2015, MNRAS, 448, 2766. Click here for the results and models.

One-dimensional non-LTE time-dependent radiative transfer of an He-detonation model and the connection to faint and fast-decaying supernovae
Dessart, Luc, and Hillier, D. John; 2015, MNRAS, 447, 1370. Click here for the results and models.

Numerical simulations of superluminous supernovae of type IIn
Luc Dessart, Edouard Audit, and D. John Hillier, 2015, MNRAS, 449, 4304. Click here for the results and model spectra.

The detonation of a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass white dwarf at the origin of the low-luminosity Type Ia supernova 1999by
Stephane Blondin, Luc Dessart, and D. John Hillier, 2017, MNRAS, 474, 3931. Click here for the results and models.

Explosion of red-supergiant stars: Influence of the atmospheric structure on shock breakout and early-time supernova radiation
Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, and Edouard Audit, 2017, A&A, 605, 83. Click here for the results and models.

A study of the low-luminosity Type II-Plateau SN 2008bk
Sergey Lisakov, Luc Dessart, D. John Hillier, Roni Waldman, and Eli Livne, 2017, MNRAS, 466, 33. Click here to the results and models.

A magnetar model for the hydrogen-rich super-luminous supernova iPTF14hls.
Luc Dessart, 2018, A&A, 610, 10. Click here for the results and models.

Supernovae from blue supergiant progenitors: What a mess!
Luc Dessart and D. John Hillier, 2019, A&A, 622, 70. Click here for the results and models.

Simulations of light curves and spectra for superluminous Type Ic supernovae powered by magnetars
Luc Dessart, 2019, A&A, 621, 141. Click here for the results and models.

The explosion of 9-29Msun stars as Type II supernovae: Results from radiative-transfer modeling at one year after explosion.
Dessart, Luc, Hillier, D. John, Sukhbold, Tuguldur, Woosley, Stan, and Janka, H.-T. 2021, A&A, 652, 64 Click here for the results and models.

Nebular phase properties of supernova Ibc from He-star explosions
Dessart, Luc, Hillier, D. John, Sukhbold, Tuguldur, Woosley, Stan, and Janka, H.-T. 2021, accepted for publication in A&A Click here for the results and models.