Cosmic explosions and the origin of the elements

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• 54 Article
• 3 Conference Paper
• 1 Review Article

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• 2020

  Large-scale Mixing in a Violent Oxygen-Neon Shell Merger Prior to a Core-collapse Supernova

  Yadav, N., Müller, B., Janka, H. T., Melson, T. & Heger, A., 20 Feb 2020, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 890, 2, 23 p., 94.

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• Multi-epoch X-ray burst modelling: MCMC with large grids of 1D simulations

  Johnston, Z., Heger, A. & Galloway, D. K., 2020, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494, 3, p. 4576-4589 14 p.

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  24 Citations (Scopus)

• The chemical evolution of iron-peak elements with hypernovae

  Grimmett, J. J., Karakas, A. I., Heger, A., Müller, B. & West, C., 1 Aug 2020, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496, 4, p. 4987-5001 15 p.

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  9 Citations (Scopus)

• The impact of fallback on the compact remnants and chemical yields of core-collapse supernovae

  Chan, C., Müller, B. & Heger, A., Jul 2020, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495, 4, p. 3751-3762 12 p.

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  63 Citations (Scopus)
• 2019

  Fallback Accretion-powered Supernova Light Curves Based on a Neutrino-driven Explosion Simulation of a 40 M _o Star

  Moriya, T. J., Müller, B., Chan, C., Heger, A. & Blinnikov, S. I., 19 Jan 2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 880, 1, 7 p., 21.

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• Nucleosynthesis for SN 1987A from single-star and binary-merger progenitors

  Fröhlich, C., Curtis, S., Ebinger, K., Ghosh, S., Menon, A., Heger, A., Perego, A. & Thielemann, F. K., 2 Jul 2019, In: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics. 46, 8, 17 p., 084002.

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• Presupernova neutrino signals as potential probes of neutrino mass hierarchy

  Guo, G., Qian, Y. Z. & Heger, A., 10 Sept 2019, In: Physics Letters B. 796, p. 126-130 5 p.

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  14 Citations (Scopus)

• X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Emission from Core-collapse Supernovae: Comparison of Three-dimensional Neutrino-driven Explosions with SN 1987A

  Alp, D., Larsson, J., Maeda, K., Fransson, C., Wongwathanarat, A., Gabler, M., Janka, H. T., Jerkstrand, A., Heger, A. & Menon, A., 1 Sept 2019, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 882, 1, 19 p., 22.

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• 2018

  A High-resolution Study of Presupernova Core Structure

  Sukhbold, T., Woosley, S. & Heger, A., 20 Jun 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 860, 2, 22 p., 93.

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• Black Hole Formation and Fallback during the Supernova Explosion of a 40 M_⊙ Star

  Chan, C., Müller, B., Heger, A., Pakmor, R. & Springel, V., 1 Jan 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 852, 1, 6 p., L19.

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• Black Hole Hyperaccretion Inflow-Outflow Model. I. Long and Ultra-long Gamma-Ray Bursts

  Liu, T., Song, C. Y., Zhang, B., Gu, W. M. & Heger, A., 1 Jan 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 852, 1, 6 p., 20.

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• Multidimensional simulations of ultrastripped supernovae to shock breakout

  Müller, B., Gay, D. W., Heger, A., Tauris, T. M. & Sim, S. A., 21 Sept 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479, 3, p. 3675-3689 15 p.

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  67 Citations (Scopus)

• New Neutron-capture Site in Massive Pop III and Pop II Stars as a Source for Heavy Elements in the Early Galaxy

  Banerjee, P., Qian, Y. Z. & Heger, A., 1 Oct 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 865, 2, 16 p., 120.

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• Nucleosynthesis in primordial hypernovae

  Grimmett, J. J., Heger, A., Karakas, A. I. & Müller, B., 1 Sept 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479, 1, p. 495-516 22 p.

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  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Nucleosynthesis in the Innermost Ejecta of Neutrino-driven Supernova Explosions in Two Dimensions

  Wanajo, S., Müller, B., Janka, H. T. & Heger, A., 1 Jan 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 852, 1, 20 p., 40.

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• On the Detection of Supermassive Primordial Stars

  Surace, M., Whalen, D. J., Hartwig, T., Zackrisson, E., Glover, S. C. O., Patrick, S., Woods, T. E., Heger, A. & Haemmerlé, L., 20 Dec 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 869, 2, 6 p., L39.

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• On the Rotation of Supermassive Stars

  Haemmerlé, L., Woods, T. E., Klessen, R. S., Heger, A. & Whalen, D. J., 20 Jan 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 853, 1, 5 p., L3.

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• Parameterizing the Supernova Engine and Its Effect on Remnants and Basic Yields

  Fryer, C. L., Andrews, S., Even, W., Heger, A. & Safi-Harb, S., 20 Mar 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 856, 1, 14 p., 63.

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• Properties of convective oxygen and silicon burning shells in supernova progenitors

  Collins, C., Müller, B. & Heger, A., 1 Jan 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 473, 2, p. 1695-1704 10 p.

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• Role of Core-collapse Supernovae in Explaining Solar System Abundances of p Nuclides

  Travaglio, C., Rauscher, T., Heger, A., Pignatari, M. & West, C., 10 Feb 2018, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 854, 1, 17 p., 18.

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• Simulating X-ray bursts during a transient accretion event

  Johnston, Z., Heger, A. & Galloway, D. K., 21 Jun 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 477, 2, p. 2112-2118 7 p.

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  21 Citations (Scopus)

• S-Process in massive carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars

  Banerjee, P., Qian, Y. Z. & Heger, A., 1 Nov 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480, 4, p. 4963-4968 6 p.

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• The evolution of supermassive Population III stars

  Haemmerlé, L., Woods, T. E., Klessen, R. S., Heger, A. & Whalen, D. J., 1 Jan 2018, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474, 2, p. 2757-2773 17 p.

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  121 Citations (Scopus)
• 2017

  Fast evolving pair-instability supernova models: evolution, explosion, light curves

  Kozyreva, A., Gilmer, M., Hirschi, R., Frohlich, C., Blinnikov, S., Wollaeger, R. T., Noebauer, U. M., van Rossum, D. R., Heger, A., Even, W., Waldman, R., Tolstov, A., Chatzopoulos, E. & Sorokina, E., 2017, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464, 3, p. 2854-2865 12 p.

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• On the Maximum Mass of Accreting Primordial Supermassive Stars

  Woods, T. E., Heger, A., Whalen, D. J., Haemmerlé, L. & Klessen, R. S., 10 Jun 2017, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 842, 1, 5 p., L6.

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• Reducing Uncertainties in the Production of the Gamma-emitting Nuclei ²⁶Al, ⁴⁴Ti, and ⁶⁰Fe in Core-collapse Supernovae by Using Effective Helium Burning Rates

  Austin, S. M., West, C. & Heger, A., 10 Apr 2017, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 839, 1, 4 p., L9.

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• Supernova simulations from a 3D progenitor model - Impact of perturbations and evolution of explosion properties

  Mueller, B., Melson, T., Heger, A. & Janka, H.-T., 1 Jan 2017, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472, 1, p. 491–513 23 p.

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• The mass distribution of population III stars

  Fraser, M., Casey, A. R., Gilmore, G., Heger, A. & Chan, C., 11 Jun 2017, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 468, 1, p. 418-425 8 p.

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• The quest for blue supergiants: binary merger models for the evolution of the progenitor of SN 1987A

  Menon, A. & Heger, A., Aug 2017, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 469, 4, p. 4649-4664 16 p.

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• 2016

  A simple approach to the supernova progenitor-explosion connection

  Mueller, B., Heger, A., Liptai, D. & Cameron, J. B., 2016, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 460, 1, p. 742-764 23 p.

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  175 Citations (Scopus)

• Carbon production on accreting neutron stars in a new regime of stable nuclear burning

  Keek, L. & Heger, A., 2016, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 456, 1, p. L11–L15 5 p.

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• Evidence from stable isotopes and ¹⁰Be for solar system formation triggered by a low-mass supernova

  Banerjee, P., Qian, Y. Z., Heger, A. & Haxton, W. C., 22 Nov 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 6 p., 13639.

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• Nebular spectra of pair-instability supernovae

  Jerkstrand, A., Smartt, S. J. & Heger, A., 2016, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455, 3, p. 3207-3229 23 p.

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• Observational constraints on first-star nucleosynthesis. II. Spectroscopy of an ultra metal-poor CEMP-no star

  Placco, V. M., Frebel, A., Beers, T. C., Yoon, J., Chiti, A., Heger, A., Chan, C., Casey, A. & Christlieb, N., 10 Dec 2016, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 833, 1, 13 p., 21.

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• The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers

  Belczynski, K., Heger, A., Gladysz, W., Ruiter, A. J., Woosley, S. E., Wiktorowicz, G., Chen, H. Y., Bulik, T., O'Shaughnessy, R., Holz, D. E., Fryer, C. & Berti, E., 1 Oct 2016, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 594, 10 p., A97.

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  331 Citations (Scopus)

• The interplay between chemistry and nucleation in the formation of carbonaceous dust in supernova ejecta

  Lazzati, D. & Heger, A., 2016, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 817, 2, p. 1-11 11 p., 134.

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• The last minutes of oxygen shell burning in a massive star

  Mueller, B., Viallet, M., Heger, A. & Janka, H.-T., 10 Dec 2016, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 833, 1, 22 p., 124.

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  110 Citations (Scopus)
• 2015

  Are models for core-collapse supernova progenitors consistent with the properties of supernova remnants?

  Patnaude, D. J., Lee, S.-H., Slane, P., Badenes, C., Heger, A., Ellison, D. C. & Nagataki, S., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 803, 2, p. 1-7 7 p.

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• Can direct collapse black holes launch gamma-ray bursts and grow to supermassive black holes?

  Matsumoto, T., Nakauchi, D., Ioka, K., Heger, A. & Nakamura, T., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 810, 1, p. 1-9 9 p., 64.

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• Code dependencies of pre-supernova evolution and nucleosynthesis in massive stars: Evolution to the end of core helium burning

  Jones, S. W., Hirschi, R., Pignatari, M., Heger, A., Georgy, C., Nishimura, N., Fryer, C. & Herwig, F., 2015, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 447, 4, p. 3115-3129 15 p.

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• Constraints on explosive silicon burning in core-collapse supernovae from measured Ni/Fe ratios

  Jerkstrand, A., Timmes, F. X., Magkotsios, G., Sim, S. A., Fransson, C., Spyromilio, J., Mueller, B., Heger, A., Sollerman, J. & Smartt, S. J., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 807, 1, p. 1-12 12 p., 110.

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• Cosmological impact of population III binaries

  Chen, K.-J., Bromm, V., Heger, A., Jeon, M. & Woosley, S. E., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 802, 1, p. 1-15 15 p.

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• First direct measurement of ¹²C(¹²C,n)²³Mg at stellar energies

  Bucher, B., Tang, X. D., Fang, X., Heger, A., Almaraz-Calderon, S., Alongi, A., Ayangeakaa, A. D., Beard, M., Best, A., Browne, J., Cahillane, C., Couder, M., DeBoer, R. J., Kontos, A., Lamm, L., Li, Y. J., Long, A., Lu, W., Lyons, S. & Notani, M. & 11 others, Patel, D., Paul, N., Pignatari, M., Roberts, A., Robertson, D., Smith, K., Stech, E., Talwar, R., Tan, W. P., Wiescher, M. & Woosley, S. E., 2015, In: Physical Review Letters. 114, 25, p. 1-6 6 p., 251102.

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  30 Citations (Scopus)

• Metal-poor stars observed with the Magellan telescope. III. New extremely and ultra metal-poor stars from SDSS/SEGUE and insights on the formation of ultra metal-poor stars

  Placco, V. M., Frebel, A., Lee, Y. S., Jacobson, H. R., Beers, T. C., Pena, J. M., Chan, C. & Heger, A., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 809, 2, p. 1-18 18 p., 136.

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• Nucleosynthesis in a primordial supernova: carbon and oxygen abundances in SMSS J031300.36-670839.3

  Bessell, M. S., Collet, R., Keller, S. C., Frebel, A., Heger, A., Casey, A., Masseron, T., Asplund, M., Jacobson, H., Lind, K., Marino, A. F., Norris, J. E., Yong, D., Da Costa, G., Chan, C., Magic, Z., Schmidt, B. P. & Tisserand, P., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 806, 1, p. 1-6 6 p.

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• Sulfur isotopic compositions of submicrometer SiC grains from the Murchison meteorite

  Xu, Y., Zinner, E. K., Gallino, R., Heger, A., Pignatari, M. & Lin, Y., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 799, 2, p. 1-23 23 p.

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• The GALAH survey: Scientific motivation

  De Silva, G. M., Freeman, K. C., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Martell, S., Wylie de Boer, E., Asplund, M., Keller, S., Sharma, S., Zucker, D. B., Zwitter, T., Anguiano, B., Bacigalupo, C., Bayliss, D., Beavis, M. A., Bergemann, M., Campbell, S., Cannon, R., Carollo, D., Casagrande, L. & Casey, A. R. & 27 others, Da Costa, G., D'Orazi, V., Dotter, A., Duong, L., Heger, A., Ireland, M. J., Kafle, P. R., Kos, J., Lattanzio, J., Lewis, G. F., Lin, J., Lind, K., Munari, U., Nataf, D. M., O'Toole, S., Parker, Q., Reid, W., Schlesinger, K. J., Sheinis, A., Simpson, J. D., Stello, D., Ting, Y. S., Traven, G., Watson, F., Wittenmyer, R., Yong, D. & Žerjal, M., 21 May 2015, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 449, 3, p. 2604-2617 14 p.

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• The remarkable deaths of 9-11 solar mass stars

  Woosley, S. E. & Heger, A., 2015, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 810, 1, p. 1-20 20 p., 34.

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• 2014

  Effective helium burning rates and the production of the neutrino nuclei

  Austin, S. M., West, C. & Heger, A., 2014, In: Physical Review Letters. 112, 11, p. 1 - 4 4 p.

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  14 Citations (Scopus)

• Pair instability supernovae of very massive population III stars

  Chen, K.-J., Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., Almgren, A. S. & Whalen, D. J., 2014, In: The Astrophysical Journal. 792, 1, 12 p., 44.

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