ERC Starting Grant · 2016
Exploding stars from first principles: MAGnetars as engines of hypernovae and gamma-ray BURSTs
The birth of a neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, has emerged as a promising scenario to power a variety of outstanding explosive events. This includes gamma-ray bursts, among the most luminous events observed up to high redshift and therefore useful as cosmological probes, but also supernovae with extreme kinetic energies called hypernovae and other classes of super-luminous supernovae. Simple phenomenological models, where the magnetar rotation period and magnetic field are adjusted, can explain many of these observations but lack a sound theoretical basis. The goal of this proposal is to develop an ab initio description of magnetar powered explosions…
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