Members
14th
Term: Apr. 2024 ～
:Global Type
:Tenure-track Type
● MCNEILL Lucy Olivia Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Astrophysics
Research Topic: Generational theoretical updates to pre-supernova mass loss in the era of high resolution observations and all-sky surveys
Host Department: Graduate School of Science
Previous Affiliation: RIKEN iTHEMS
Short Introduction
Most massive stars (heavier than 8 solar masses) end their lives in a spectacularly energetic and violent explosion— a core-collapse supernova.
While massive stars produce chemical elements as heavy as iron over their lifetime in successive nuclear burning phases, it is only during a supernova explosion that many heavier chemical elements in the universe can be created.
These bright cosmic explosions have been observed in our night sky for millennia. Despite advances in stellar evolution theory and numerical simulation it is still challenging today to connect explosion properties (luminosity, explosion geometry, chemical element production) with properties of both the massive star progenitor (mass, structure, and rotation) and the compact neutron star or black hole remnant (mass and spin) that is left behind.
