A Grid of Fast-rotating, Chemically Homogeneous, Supernova and/or Long Gamma-ray Burst Progenitors

The understanding of the mechanism(s) by which massive stars collapse and possibly explode is rapidly maturing. Uncertainties in the structure of the stellar core at the onset of collapse are often dominant in numerical simulations, and a limited number of progenitor grids are available. This is especially true for explosions where rotation and magnetic fields play a significant or primary role. We present a grid of 113 single-star models with initial masses M ZAMS = 30–90 M ⊙ and initial rigid rotation ω ZAMS = 0.5–0.99 ω crit computed at Z = 0.001 with the open-source stellar evolution code MESA . We adopt a 128-isotope nuclear reaction network capable of following the weak reactions deleptonizing the core during and after silicon core burning. By construction, these models experience rotationally induced chemically homogeneous evolution, and reach the onset of collapse ( v infall ≲ −300 km s −1 ) with large and structured amounts of angular momentum, possibly sufficient to form accretion disks on a protocompact object. Therefore, these progenitor structures provide a homogeneous set of models with updated input physics and improved algorithmic accuracy to understand stellar explosions of (some types of) stripped-envelope supernovae, possibly jetted and/or broad-lined, collapsars or magnetar-powered, and/or long gamma-ray bursts.