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Stellar core collapse events are expected to produce gravitational waves via several mechanisms, most of which are not yet fully understood due to the current limitations in the numerical simulations of these events. In this paper, we begin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kyle Crocker , Tanner Prestegard , Vuk Mandic , Tania Regimbau , Keith Olive , Elisabeth Vangioni

In this paper we review a recently developed approximate method for investigation of dynamics of compressible ellipsoidal figures. Collapse and subsequent behaviour are described by a system of ordinary differential equations for time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-03 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , O. Yu. Tsupko

In this work we report briefly on the gravitational wave (GW) signal computed in the context of a self-consistent, 3D simulation of a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion of a 15M$_\odot$ progenitor star. We present a short overview of…

Stellar collapse and the subsequent development of a core-collapse supernova explosion emit bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) that might be detected by the advanced generation of laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatories such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Logue , C. D. Ott , I. S. Heng , P. Kalmus , J. Scargill

Core-collapse supernovae are predicted to produce gravitational waves (GWs) that may be detectable by Advanced LIGO/Virgo. These GW signals carry information from the heart of these catacylsmic events, where matter reaches nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-31 Noah E. Wolfe , Carla Frohlich , Jonah M. Miller , Alejandro Torres-Forne , Pablo Cerda-Duran

We have done a series of two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the rotational collapse of a supernova core in axisymmetry. We have employed a realistic equation of state (EOS) and taken into account electron captures and neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kei Kotake , Shoichi Yamada , Katsuhiko Sato

We derive estimates for the characteristics of gravitational radiation from stellar collapse, using recent models of the core-collapse of Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs (accretion induced collapse), core-collapse supernovae and collapsars,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Chris L. Fryer , Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes

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 compute gravitational waves emitted by the collapse of a rotating very massive star (VMS) core leading directly to a black hole in axisymmetric numerical-relativity simulations. The evolved rotating VMS is derived by a stellar evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-25 Haruki Uchida , Masaru Shibata , Koh Takahashi , Takashi Yoshida

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…

Is the graviton massless? This problem was addressed in the literature at a phenomenological level, using modified dispersion relations for gravitational waves, in linearized calculations around flat space. Here, we perform a detailed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Vitor Cardoso , Gonçalo Castro , Andrea Maselli

We present a broadband spectrum of gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) sourced by neutrino emission asymmetries for a series of full 3D simulations. The associated gravitational wave strain probes the long-term secular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 David Vartanyan , Adam Burrows

Collapse of the rotating spheroid is approximated by a system of ordinary differential equations describing its dynamics. The gravitational potential is approximated by the one of the iniform Maclaurin spheroid. Developement of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

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

We derive the gravitational waveform from the collapse of a rapidly rotating supermassive star (SMS) core leading directly to a seed of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in axisymmetric numerical-relativity simulations. We find that the peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Masaru Shibata , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Haruki Uchida , Hideyuki Umeda

We study the gravitational wave emission from the first stars which are assumed to be Very Massive Objects (VMOs). We take into account various feedback (both radiative and stellar) effects regulating the collapse of objects in the early…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Schneider , A. Ferrara , B. Ciardi , V. Ferrari , S. Matarrese

We study the dynamics of the collapse of a nonspherical overdense patch during an early matter-dominated era and the associated production of gravitational waves (GWs) using a semirelativistic N-body framework that we develop. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Albert Escrivà , Tomohiro Harada , Kazunori Kohri , Takahiro Terada , Chul-Moon Yoo

We discuss the gravitational wave background (GWB) from a cosmological population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Among various emission mechanisms for the gravitational waves (GWs), we pay a particular attention to the vast anisotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Takashi Hiramatsu , Kei Kotake , Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya

Gravitational waves from core-collapse supernovae are produced by the excitation of different oscillation modes in the proto-neutron star (PNS) and its surroundings, including the shock. In this work we study the relationship between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Andrea Passamonti , José A. Font

We propose to employ the circular polarization of gravitational waves emitted by core-collapse supernovae as an unequivocal indication of rapid rotation deep in their cores. It has been demonstrated by three dimensional simulations that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Kazuhiro Hayama , Takami Kuroda , Ko Nakamura , Shoichi Yamada