Favorable conditions for heavy element nucleosynthesis in rotating proto-magnetar winds
Abstract
The neutrino-driven wind cooling phase of proto-neutron stars (PNSs) follows successful supernovae. Wind models without magnetic fields or rotation fail to achieve the necessary conditions for production of the third process peak, but robustly produce a weak process in neutron-rich winds. Using 2D magnetohydrodynamic simulations with magnetar-strength magnetic fields and rotation, we show that the PNS rotation rate significantly affects the thermodynamic conditions of the wind. We show that high entropy material is quasi-periodically ejected from the closed zone of the PNS magnetosphere with the required thermodynamic conditions to produce heavy elements. We show that maximum entropy of the material ejected depends systematically on the magnetar spin period and scales as for sufficiently rapid rotation. We present results from simulations at a constant neutrino luminosity representative of s after the onset of cooling for ranging from 5 ms to 200 ms and a few simulations with evolving neutrino luminosity where we follow the evolution of the magnetar wind until s after the onset of cooling. We estimate at magnetar polar magnetic field strength G and G that neutron-rich magnetar winds can respectively produce at least M and M of material with the required parameters for synthesis of the third process peak, within s and 10 s respectively in that order after the onset of cooling. We show that proton-rich magnetar winds can have favorable conditions for production of nuclei, even at a modest G.
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@article{arxiv.2402.06003,
title = {Favorable conditions for heavy element nucleosynthesis in rotating proto-magnetar winds},
author = {Tejas Prasanna and Matthew S. B. Coleman and Todd A. Thompson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06003},
year = {2024}
}
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22 pages, 14 figures