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The progenitors of core-collapse supernovae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2017

Morgan Fraser*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, O’Brien Centre for Science North, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland email: morgan.fraser@ucd.ie
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Abstract

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Linking core-collapse SNe to their stellar progenitors is a major ongoing challenge. To date, H rich Type IIP SNe have been shown to come from red supergiants, while there is increasing evidence that the majority of stripped envelope SNe come from binary systems. The first candidates for failed SNe, where a massive star collapses to form a black hole without a bright optical display have been identified, while the range of outbursts and eruptions from pre-SN stars are just beginning to be revealed.