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Full Transport General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics for Nucleosynthesis in Collapsars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-10-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We model a compact black hole-accretion disk system in the collapsar scenario with full transport, frequency dependent, general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics. We examine whether or not winds from a collapsar disk can undergo rapid neutron capture (r-process) nucleosynthesis and significantly contribute to solar r-process abundances. We find the inclusion of accurate transport has significant effects on outflows, raising the electron fraction above Ye0.3Y_{\rm e} \sim 0.3 and preventing third peak r-process material from being synthesized. We analyze the time-evolution of neutrino processes and electron fraction in the disk and present a simple one-dimensional model for the vertical structure that emerges. We compare our simulation to semi-analytic expectations and argue that accurate neutrino transport and realistic initial and boundary conditions are required to capture the dynamics and nucleosynthetic outcome of a collapsar.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.03378,
  title  = {Full Transport General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics for Nucleosynthesis in Collapsars},
  author = {Jonah M. Miller and Trevor M. Sprouse and Christopher L. Fryer and Benjamin R. Ryan and Joshua C. Dolence and Matthew R. Mumpower and Rebecca Surman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.03378},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages, 22 figures. Accepted in ApJ