Full Transport General Relativistic Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics for Nucleosynthesis in Collapsars
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 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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@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