Final stages of massive stars. SN explosion and explosive nucleosynthesis

INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, 00040 Monteporzio Catone Roma, Italy

Corresponding authors: marco@oa-roma.inaf.it ; alessandro.chieffi@iasf-roma.inaf.it

Abstract

We review the presupernova evolution, the explosion and the explosive nucleosynthesis of massive stars in the range 11–120 M_๏. We mainly focus on the advanced evolutionary phases prior to the explosion, i.e. from the core He exhaustion up to the onset of the iron core collapse.