Binary-Stripped Stars as Core-Collapse Supernovae Progenitors

Understand

Most massive stars experience binary interactions in their lifetimes that can alter both the surface and core structure of the stripped star with significant effects on their ultimate fate as core-collapse supernovae.

• However, core-collapse supernovae simulations to date have focused almost exclusively on the evolution of single stars.
• We present a systematic simulation study of single and binary-stripped stars with the same initial mass as candidates for core-collapse supernovae (11 - 21 M$_{\odot}$).
• Generally, we find that binary-stripped stars core tend to be less compact, with a more prominent, deeper silicon/oxygen interface, and explode preferentially to the corresponding single stars of the same initial mass.