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The gravitational wave signal arising from the collapsing iron core of a Type II supernova progenitor star carries with it the imprint of the progenitor's mass, rotation rate, degree of differential rotation, and the bounce depth. Here, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 T. Z. Summerscales , Adam Burrows , Christian D. Ott , Lee Samuel Finn

A core-collapse supernova might produce large amplitude gravitational waves if, through the collapse process, the inner core can aquire enough rotational energy to become dynamically unstable. In this report I present the results of 3-D…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Brown

We review sources of high-frequency gravitational waves, summarizing our current understanding of emission mechanisms, expected amplitudes and event rates. The most promising sources are gravitational collapse (formation of black holes or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Nikolaos Stergioulas

We investigate the impact of rotation and magnetic fields on the dynamics and gravitational wave emission in 2D core-collapse supernova simulations with neutrino transport. We simulate 17 different models of $15\,M_\odot$ and $39\,M_\odot$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Rylan Jardine , Jade Powell , Bernhard Müller

As several large scale interferometers are beginning to take data at sensitivities where astrophysical sources are predicted, the direct detection of gravitational waves may well be imminent. This would open the gravitational-wave window to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Kostas D. Kokkotas

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

This note describes fitting formulae for the gravitational waveforms generated by a rapidly rotating neutron star (e.g., newly-formed in the core collapse of a supernova) as it evolves from an initial axisymmetric configuration toward a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Lai

We examine the time evolution of the frequencies of the gravitational wave after the bounce within the framework of relativistic linear perturbation theory using the results of one dimensional numerical simulations of core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Hajime Sotani , Tomoya Takiwaki

We present the gravitational wave predictions from two-dimensional core collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations initiated from two nearly identical progenitors that have significantly different internal structures due to their late-stage…

Core-collapse supernovae produce copious low-energy neutrinos and are also predicted to radiate gravitational waves. These two messengers can give us information regarding the explosion mechanism. The gravitational wave detection from these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 O Halim , C Casentini , M Drago , V Fafone , K Scholberg , C F Vigorito , G Pagliaroli

Gravitational waves are emitted from deep within a core-collapse supernova, which may enable us to determine the mechanism of the explosion from a gravitational-wave detection. Previous studies suggested that it is possible to determine if…

Exploiting an improved analysis of the electronic antineutrinos signal from the explosion of a galactic core collapse supernova, we show that it is possible to identify within about ten milliseconds the time of the bounce, which is strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 G. Pagliaroli , F. Vissani , E. Coccia , W. Fulgione

The quest for the supernova explosion mechanism has been one of the outstanding challenges in computational astrophysics for several decades. Simulations have now progressed to a stage at which the solution appears close and neutrino and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-09 Bernhard Mueller , Hans-Thomas Janka , Andreas Marek , Florian Hanke , Annop Wongwathanarat , Ewald Mueller

We study the gravitational wave signals emitted from phase-transition induced collapses of rapidly rotating neutron stars to strange stars by performing 3D numerical simulations. Our preliminary results suggest that the complete conversion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Lap-Ming Lin , Kwong-Sang Cheng , Wai-Mo Suen , Ming-Chung Chu

In massive scalar-tensor gravity, core-collapse supernovae are strong sources of scalar-polarized gravitational waves. These can be detectable out to large distance. The dispersive nature of the propagation of waves in the massive scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-10 Roxana Rosca-Mead , Michalis Agathos , Christopher J. Moore , Ulrich Sperhake

Gravitational waves (GW) generated during a core-collapse supernova open a window into the heart of the explosion. At core bounce, progenitors with rapid core rotation rates exhibit a characteristic GW signal which can be used to constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-30 Jim Fuller , Hannah Klion , Ernazar Abdikamalov , Christian Ott

The growing evidence for nano-hertz gravitational waves, from NANOGrav and other observations, may be pointing to a cosmological first-order phase transition at temperatures of $\mathcal{O}(10-100)\;\mathrm{MeV}$. Such an interpretation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Hooman Davoudiasl , Peter B. Denton , Anna M. Suliga

We analyse the gravitational-wave emission from 60 two-dimensional core-collapse supernova simulations. The models cover a range of progenitors and equations of state. We focus on the narrow frequency interval in the gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Haakon Andresen , Xingzao Li , Aurore Betranhandy , Evan P. O'Connor , Shuai Zha , Sean M. Couch

It has been suggested that the observed pulsar velocities are caused by an asymmetric neutrino emission from a hot neutron star during the first seconds after the supernova collapse. We calculate the magnitude of gravitational waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lee C. Loveridge

Supernova explosions are expected as one of the promising candidates for gravitational wave sources. In this study, we examine the supernova gravitational waves, focusing on the multidimensional treatment of gravity in the simulation. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Hajime Sotani , Bernhard Müller , Tomoya Takiwaki