General Relativity and Neutrino-driven Supernova Winds
Abstract
To date, detailed core-collapse supernova simulations have not succeeded in elucidating the explosion mechanism. But whatever the mechanism turns out to be, there will be a neutrino-heated outflow between the hot, newly-born neutron star and the outgoing supernova shock wave whose neutron richness, low density, and high temperature could provide promising conditions for the synthesis of heavy nuclei via rapid neutron capture (the r-process). General relativistic effects improve the prospects for this outflow as an r-process site. Among relativistic effects, the enhanced "gravitational potential" is more important than the gravitational redshift or trajectory bending of neutrinos.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0409716,
title = {General Relativity and Neutrino-driven Supernova Winds},
author = {Christian Y. Cardall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0409716},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures. Talk presented at First Argonne/MSU/JINA/INT RIA Workshop, The r-process: the astrophysical origin of the heavy elements and related Rare Isotope Acclerator Physics, January 8-10, 2004, at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, Washington. Proceedings to be published by World Scientific