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The Progenitor Stars of Gamma-Ray Bursts by Woosley, S. E, Heger, A

“…Those massive stars that give rise to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) during their deaths must be endowed with an unusually large amount of angular momentum in their…”
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Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae by Blinnikov, S, Woosley, S. E, Heger, Alexander

“…The extremely luminous supernova SN 2006gy (ref. 1) challenges the traditional view that the collapse of a stellar core is the only mechanism by which a…”
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The Supernova–Gamma-Ray Burst Connection by Woosley, S.E., Bloom, J.S.

“…Observations show that at least some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) happen simultaneously with core-collapse supernovae (SNe), thus linking by a common thread…”
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The diversity of type Ia supernovae from broken symmetries by Kasen, D, Röpke, F. K, Woosley, S. E

“…Type Ia supernovae result when carbon-oxygen white dwarfs in binary systems accrete mass from companion stars, reach a critical mass and explode. The near…”
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The Nucleosynthetic Signature of Population III by Heger, A, Woosley, S. E

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Fallback and Black Hole Production in Massive Stars by Zhang, Weiqun, Woosley, S. E, Heger, A

“…The compact remnants of core-collapse supernovae-neutron stars and black holes-have properties that reflect both the structure of their stellar progenitors and…”
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Detailed Abundances for 28 Metal-poor Stars: Stellar Relics in the Milky Way by Lai, David K, Bolte, Michael, Johnson, Jennifer A, Lucatello, Sara, Heger, Alexander, Woosley, S. E

“…We present the results of an abundance analysis for a sample of stars with -[image]. The data were obtained with the HIRES spectrograph at Keck Observatory…”
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The evolution and explosion of massive stars by Woosley, S. E., Heger, A., Weaver, T. A.

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Presupernova Evolution of Differentially Rotating Massive Stars Including Magnetic Fields by Heger, A, Woosley, S. E, Spruit, H. C

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How Massive Single Stars End Their Life by Heger, A, Fryer, C. L, Woosley, S. E, Langer, N, Hartmann, D. H

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Collapsars: Gamma‐Ray Bursts and Explosions in “Failed Supernovae” by MacFadyen, A. I., Woosley, S. E.

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On the origin of the type la supernova width-luminosity relation by KASEN, Daniel, WOOSLEY, S. E

“…Brighter Type Ia supernovae (SNe la) have broader, more slowly declining B-band light curves than dimmer SNe Ia. We study the physical origin of this…”
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Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars with Improved Nuclear and Stellar Physics by Rauscher, T, Heger, A, Hoffman, R. D, Woosley, S. E

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Relativistic Jets in Collapsars by Zhang, Weiqun, Woosley, S. E, MacFadyen, A. I

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Supernovae, Jets, and Collapsars by MacFadyen, A. I, Woosley, S. E, Heger, A

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Type Ia Supernovae: Burning and Detonation in the Distributed Regime by Woosley, SE

“…A simple, semianalytic representation is developed for nuclear burning in Type Ia supernovae in the special case where turbulent eddies completely disrupt the…”
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Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB100316D with an associated supernova by Starling, R. L. C, Wiersema, K, Levan, A. J, Sakamoto, T, Bersier, D, Goldoni, P, Oates, S. R, Rowlinson, A, Campana, S, Sollerman, J, Tanvir, N. R, Malesani, D, Fynbo, J. P. U, Covino, S, D'Avanzo, P, O'Brien, P. T, Page, K. L, Osborne, J. P, Vergani, S. D, Barthelmy, S, Burrows, D. N, Cano, Z, Curran, P. A, De Pasquale, M, D'Elia, V, Evans, P. A, Flores, H, Fruchter, A. S, Garnavich, P, Gehrels, N, Gorosabel, J, Hjorth, J, Holland, S. T, van der Horst, A. J, Hurkett, C. P, Jakobsson, P, Kamble, A. P, Kouveliotou, C, Kuin, N. P. M, Kaper, L, Mazzali, P. A, Nugent, P. E, Pian, E, Stamatikos, M, Thöne, C. C, Woosley, S. E

“…We report the Swift discovery of the nearby long, soft gamma-ray burst GRB100316D, and the subsequent unveiling of its low-redshift host galaxy and associated…”
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Nucleosynthesis in Early Supernova Winds. II. The Role of Neutrinos by Pruet, J, Hoffman, R. D, Woosley, S. E, Janka, H.-T, Buras, R

“…One of the outstanding unsolved riddles of nuclear astrophysics is the origin of the so-called p-process nuclei from A = 92 to 126. Both the lighter and…”
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Presupernova Evolution of Rotating Massive Stars. I. Numerical Method and Evolution of the Internal Stellar Structure by Heger, A, Langer, N, Woosley, S. E

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The Propagation and Eruption of Relativistic Jets from the Stellar Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts by Zhang, Weiqun, Woosley, S. E, Heger, A

“…New two- and three-dimensional calculations are presented of relativistic jet propagation and break out in massive Wolf-Rayet stars. Such jets are thought to…”
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