The role of supernova convection for the lower mass gap in the isolated binary formation of gravitational wave sources

Understand

Understanding astrophysical phenomena involving compact objects requires an insight about the engine behind core-collapse supernovae (SNe) and the fate of the stellar collapse of massive stars.

• In particular, this insight is crucial in developing an understanding of the origin and formation channels of detected population of BH-BH, BH-NS and NS-NS mergers.
• To gain this understanding, we must tie our current knowledge of pre-SN stars properties and their potential explosions to the final NS or BH mass distribution.
• The timescale of convection growth may have a large effect on the strength of SN explosion and therefore also on the mass distribution of stellar remnants.