Synthesis of Sc, Ti, and V in core-collapse supernovae
Speaker: Ryota Hatami
Abstract:
A supernova explosion is an explosive phenomenon that occurs at the end of the life of a massive star. However, the explosion mechanism has not yet been clarified. As a clue to investigate the explosion mechanism, we focused on nucleosynthesis. Metal-poor stars reflect the result of explosive nucleosynthesis in supernova explosions of first stars, and reproducing the chemical abundances of metal-poor stars is one of the important issues in the nucleosynthetic calculation. Recently correlations among Sc, Ti, and V are observationally identified. Nevertheless, the abundances of Sc, Ti, and V in metal-poor stars have not been reproduced by nucleosynthesis calculations based on the results of hydrodynamical simulation. This is because one of the possible causes is that the explosion mechanism is not yet understood. Then, we attempted to constrain the explosion mechanism by (1) performing nucleosynthesis calculations with setting temperature, density, neutrino flux, etc. as parameters to find physical conditions which reproduce the observed chemical composition of metal-poor stars, and (2) examining the feasibility of these conditions by comparing them with 2D explosion simulations. In this talk, the progress of (1) and (2) will be discussed.