NBIA Seminar by Evan O'Connor

Core-Collapse Supernovae are a fantastic laboratory to study fundamental physics. The messengers from the core, neutrino and gravitational waves, carry a wealth of information about the dynamics, thermodynamics, underlying physics, and structure of massive stars at the end of their lives. In this talk, I will discuss some of the ways we can use supernovae to probe this physics. From quark-hadron phase transitions emitting unique gravitational wave and neutrino signals to black hole formation revealing properties of the nuclear equation of state, and neutrinos tellings us precise information about the distance to and progenitor mass (!) of galactic supernovae, even before the optical signal is emitted. I will also talk about current efforts to model the population of core-collapse supernovae using parameterized 1D models.