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Title
Production of Short-Lived Radionuclides in Asymmetric Supernovae
Description
Supernovae are vital to supplying necessary elements to forming bodies in our solar systems. This project studies the creation of a subset of these necessary elements, called short-lived radionuclides (SLRs). SLRs are isotopes with relatively short half-lives and can serve as heat sources for forming planetary bodies, and their traces can be used to date stellar events. Computational models of asymmetric supernovae provide opportunities to study the effect of explosion geometry on the SLR yields. We are most interested in the production of \iso{Al}{26}, \iso{Fe}{60}, and \iso{Ca}{41}, whose decayed products are found in our own solar system. To study the effect of explosion asymmetries in supernovae, we use TYCHO stellar evolution code, SNSHP smooth particle hydrodynamics code for 3D explosion simulations, Burn code for nucleosythesis post-processing, and Python code written to analyze the output of the post-processing code.
Date Created
2018-05
Contributors
- Johnson, Charlotte (Author)
- Young, Patrick (Thesis director)
- Lunardini, Cecilia (Committee member)
- Department of Physics (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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Extent
18 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Academic Year 2017-2018
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.48400
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minimal
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- 2018-04-28 12:00:19
System Modified
- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 3 years 3 months ago
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