Core-Collape Supernova Progenitors: Light-Curve and Stellar-Evolution Models

BERSTEN MELINA

Auckland

Congreso; The lives and death-throes of massive stars; 2016

A very active area of research in the eld of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) is the study of their progenitors and the links with dierent subtypes.  Direct identication using pre-and post-SN images is a powerful method but it can only be applied to the most nearby events.An alternative method is the hydrodynamical modeling of SN light curves and expansion velocities, which can serve to characterize the progenitor (e.g. mass and radius) and the explosion itself(e.g. explosion energy and radioactive yields). This latter methodology is particularly powerfulwhen combined with stellar evolution calculations. We review our current understanding of theproperties of normal core-collapse SNe based chiey on these two methods.