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General Relativistic Simulations of Stellar Core Collapse and Postbounce Evolution with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

We present self-consistent general relativistic simulations of stellar core collapse, bounce, and postbounce evolution for 13, 15, and 20 solar mass progenitors in spherical symmetry. Our simulations implement three-flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport and standard nuclear physics. The results are compared to our corresponding simulations with Newtonian hydrodynamics and O(v/c) Boltzmann transport.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103024,
  title  = {General Relativistic Simulations of Stellar Core Collapse and Postbounce Evolution with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport},
  author = {Matthias Liebendoerfer and O. E. Bronson Messer and Anthony Mezzacappa and W. Raphael Hix},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103024},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, edited by J.C. Wheeler and H. Martel (American Institute of Physics)