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From supernovae to neutron stars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-06-18 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The gravitational collapse, bounce, the explosion of an iron core of an 11.2 MM_{\odot} star is simulated by two-dimensional neutrino-radiation hydrodynamic code. The explosion is driven by the neutrino heating aided by multi-dimensional hydrodynamic effects such as the convection. Following the explosion phase, we continue the simulation focusing on the thermal evolution of the protoneutron star up to \sim70 s when the crust of the neutron star is formed using one-dimensional simulation. We find that the crust forms at high-density region (ρ1014\rho\sim10^{14} g cm3^{-3}) and it would proceed from inside to outside. This is the first self-consistent simulation that successfully follows from the collapse phase to the protoneutron star cooling phase based on the multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulation.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7249,
  title  = {From supernovae to neutron stars},
  author = {Yudai Suwa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7249},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, with minor corrections; accepted to PASJ Letters