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Galactic core-collapse supernovae are among the possible sources of gravitational waves. We investigate the ability of gravitational-wave observatories to extract the properties of the collapsing progenitor from the gravitational waves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-28 Chaitanya Afle , Duncan A Brown

Core-collapse supernovae, the culmination of massive stellar evolution, are spectacular astronomical events and the principle actors in the story of our elemental origins. Our understanding of these events, while still incomplete, centers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-30 W. R. Hix , E. J. Lentz , S. W. Bruenn , A. Mezzacappa , O. E. B. Messer , E. Endeve , J. M. Blondin , J. A. Harris , P. Marronett , K. N. Yakunin

Multi-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the post-bounce evolution of collapsed stellar iron cores have demonstrated that convective overturn between the stalled shock and the neutrinosphere can have an important effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -Th. Janka

We suggest that the collapsing core of a massive rotating star may fragment to produce two or more compact objects. Their coalescence under gravitational radiation gives the resulting black hole or neutron star a significant kick velocity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Melvyn B. Davies , Andrew King , Stephan Rosswog , Graham Wynn

The physical trigger powering supernovae following the core collapse of massive stars is believed to involve a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH), depending largely on progenitor mass. A potentially distinct signature is a long-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Maryam A. Abchouyeh , Massimo Della Valle

Core collapse supernovae are among the most energetic astrophysical events in the Universe. Despite huge efforts on understanding the main ingredients triggering such explosions, we still lack of compelling evidences for the precise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Alessandro Veutro , Irene Di Palma , Angela Zegarelli

Gravitational wave emission from the gravitational collapse of massive stars has been studied for more than three decades. Current state of the art numerical investigations of collapse include those that use progenitors with realistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-19 Kimberly C. B. New

We present a comparison between several simulation codes designed to study the core-collapse supernova mechanism. We pay close attention to controlling the initial conditions and input physics in order to ensure a meaningful and informative…

Gravitational waves emitted from core-collapse supernova explosions are critical observables for extracting information about the dynamics and properties of both the progenitor and the post-bounce~evolution of the system. They are prime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Marco Cusinato , Martin Obergaulinger , Miguel-Ángel Aloy

We present a new mechanism for core-collapse supernova explosions that relies upon acoustic power generated in the inner core as the driver. In our simulation using an 11-solar-mass progenitor, a strong advective-acoustic oscillation a la…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Adam Burrows , Eli Livne , Luc Dessart , Christian Ott , Jeremiah Murphy

Gravitational waves (GWs) can provide crucial information about the central engines of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe). In order to unveil the nature of GW emission in CCSNe, we apply perturbative analyses with the same underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-19 Shuai Zha , Oliver Eggenberger Andersen , Evan P. O'Connor

Gravitational wave signals from core-collapse supernovae are one of the important observables for extracting the information of dense matter. To extract the properties of proto-neutron stars produced via core-collapse supernovae by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Hajime Sotani , Bernhard Müller , Tomoya Takiwaki

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are regularly observed electromagnetically, prompting targetted searches for their gravitational-wave emission. However, there are scenarios where these powerful explosions may not have any observable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Jade Powell , Bernhard Müller

We present the results of 2D simulations of the magnetorotational model of a supernova explosion. After the core collapse the core consists of rapidly a rotating proto-neutron star and a differentially rotating envelope. The toroidal part…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. V. Ardeljan , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , S. G. Moiseenko

Though it is agreed that the post-bounce, pre-explosion cores of massive stars are unstable to transonic, Rayleigh-Taylor-like instabilities, the role convective motions may play in igniting the supernova explosion itself is not yet clear.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Burrows

Abridged: Using a suite of progenitor models, neutrino luminosities, and two- dimensional (2D) simulations, we investigate the matter gravitational-wave (GW) emission from postbounce phases of neutrino-driven core-collapse supernovae…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeremiah W. Murphy , Christian D. Ott , Adam Burrows

Understanding the explosion mechanism of core collapse supernovae is a problem that has plagued nuclear astrophysicists since the first computational models of this phenomenon were carried out in the 1960s. Our current theories of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Douglas Swesty , Eric S. Myra

We investigate correlated gravitational wave and neutrino signals from rotating core-collapse supernovae with simulations. Using an improved mode identification procedure based on mode function matching, we show that a linear quadrupolar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-18 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Evan O'Connor , Erin O'Sullivan , Irene Tamborra , Meng-Ru Wu , Sean M. Couch , Felix Malmenbeck

Core-collapse supernovae emit on the order of 3x10^53 ergs in high-energy neutrinos over a time of order 10 seconds, and so decrease their mass by about 0.2 solar mass. If the explosion is nearly spherically symmetric, there will be little…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-21 Ken D. Olum , Evan Pierce , Xavier Siemens

We present gravitational wave and neutrino signatures obtained in our first principle 3D core-collapse supernova simulation of 15M non-rotating progenitor with Chimera code. Observations of neutrinos emitted by the forming neutron star, and…