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Turbulence, Gravity, and Multimessenger Asteroseismology

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-10-11 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Part IA: We present numerical measurements of relativistic scaling relations in (2+1)(2+1)-dimensional conformal fluid turbulence, which perform favourably over their non-relativistic versions. As seen with incompressible turbulence in past studies, we find that the energy spectrum exhibits k2k^{-2} scaling rather than the Kolmogorov/Kraichnan expectation of k5/3k^{-5/3}. Part IB: We compute the fractal dimension DD of a turbulent anti-deSitter black brane reconstructed from boundary fluid data using the fluid-gravity duality. Our value of D=2.584(1)D=2.584(1) is consistent with the upper bound D3D\leq 3, resolving a recent claim that D=3+1/3D=3+1/3. We describe how to covariantly define the fractal dimension of spatial sections of the horizon, and we speculate on assigning a `bootstrapped' value to the entire horizon. Part II: We report progress implementing a fluid code with post-Newtonian (PN) gravity in spherical symmetry. The PN formalism couples a fluid, its self-gravity, and a black hole via elliptic equations. This eliminates radiative modes, allowing larger time steps, which is helpful for studying systems with very long time scales, eg. tidal disruption events. Part III: Asteroseismology of rotating core-collapse supernovae is possible with a multimessenger strategy. We show an l=2l=2, m=0m=0, n2n\gtrsim 2, f280f\lesssim 280 Hz mode of the core is responsible for emission in gravitational waves and neutrinos. The angular harmonics of the neutrino emission is consistent with the mode energy around the neutrinospheres, where r70r\sim 70 km. Thus, neutrinos carry information about the mode in the outer region of the core, whereas gravitational waves probe the deep inner core r30r \lesssim 30 km.

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@article{arxiv.1810.04594,
  title  = {Turbulence, Gravity, and Multimessenger Asteroseismology},
  author = {John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04594},
  year   = {2018}
}

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PhD thesis, University of Guelph

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