Hydrodynamic instabilities in long-term three-dimensional simulations of neutrino-driven supernovae of 13 red supergiant progenitors

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract We present long-term three-dimensional (3D) simulations of Type-IIP supernovae (SNe) for 13 non-rotating, single-star, red-supergiant (RSG) progenitors with zero-age-main-sequence masses between 12.5 M⊙ and 27.3 M⊙. The explosions were modelled with a parametric treatment of neutrino heating to obtain defined energies, 56Ni yields, and neutron-star properties in agreement with previous results. Our 3D SN models were evolved from core bounce until 10 days to study how the large-scale mixing of chemical elements depends on the progenitor structure. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities (RTIs), which grow at the (C+O)/He and He/H interfaces and interact with the reverse shock forming after the SN shock has passed the He/H interface, play a crucial role in the outward mixing of 56Ni into the hydrogen envelope. We find most extreme 56Ni mixing and the highest maximum 56Ni velocities in lower-mass (LM) explosions despite lower explosion energies, and the weakest 56Ni mixing in the 3D explosions of the most massive RSGs. The efficiency of radial 56Ni mixing anti-correlates linearly with the helium-core mass and correlates positively with the magnitude of a local maximum of ρr3 in the helium shell. This maximum causes shock deceleration and therefore facilitates high growth factors of RTI at the (C+O)/He interface in the LM explosions. Therefore fast-moving 56Ni created by the asymmetric neutrino-heating mechanism is carried into the ubiquitous RT-unstable region near the He/H interface and ultimately far into the envelopes of the exploding RSGs. Our correlations may aid improving mixing prescriptions in 1D SN models and deducing progenitor structures from observed SN properties.
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Authors B. Giudici, Michael Gabler, Hans‐Thomas Janka
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Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1978
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1978
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