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Favorable conditions for heavy element nucleosynthesis in rotating proto-magnetar winds

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-09-09 v2

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 rr-process peak, but robustly produce a weak rr-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 SS of the material ejected depends systematically on the magnetar spin period PP_{\star} and scales as SP5/6S \propto P_{\star}^{-5/6} for sufficiently rapid rotation. We present results from simulations at a constant neutrino luminosity representative of 12\sim 1-2 s after the onset of cooling for PP_{\star} 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 101410-14 s after the onset of cooling. We estimate at magnetar polar magnetic field strength B0=3×1015B_0=3\times 10^{15} G and 101510^{15} G that neutron-rich magnetar winds can respectively produce at least 15×105\sim 1-5\times 10^{-5} M_{\odot} and 14×107\sim 1-4\times 10^{-7} M_{\odot} of material with the required parameters for synthesis of the third rr-process peak, within 121-2 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 pp-nuclei, even at a modest B0=5×1014B_0=5\times 10^{14} 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