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Core-collapse supernovae are among the most energetic cosmic cataclysms. They are prodigious emitters of neutrinos and quite likely strong galactic sources of gravitational waves. Observation of both neutrinos and gravitational waves from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-26 C. D. Ott , E. P. O'Connor , S. Gossan , E. Abdikamalov , U. C. T. Gamma , S. Drasco

Three-dimensional modeling has reached a level of maturity to provide detailed predictions of the gravitational wave emission in neutrino-driven core collapse supernovae. We review the status of these modeling efforts, current predictions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Anthony Mezzacappa , Michele Zanolin

We present numerical simulations in general relativity of collapsing stellar cores. Our initial model consists of a low metallicity rapidly-rotating progenitor which is evolved in axisymmetry with the latest version of our general…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Nicolas DeBrye , Miguel A Aloy , José A Font , Martin Obergaulinger

We calculate the gravitational wave background produced from density perturbations in an early matter domination era where primordial black holes form. The formation of black holes requires perturbations out of the linear regime. Space with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Ioannis Dalianis , Chris Kouvaris

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…

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

The quantitative impact of strong rotation on the amplitudes and frequencies of the post-bounce gravitational wave (GW) signal from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) is still not fully understood. To study trends in frequencies and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Bailey Sykes , Bernhard Müller

Using the numerical simulation data for two-dimensional core-collapse supernova, we examine the protoneutron star (PNS) asteroseismology with the relativistic Cowling approximation. As shown in the previous study, the gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Hajime Sotani , Tomoya Takiwaki , Hajime Togashi

We present detailed results from performing general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse to a proto-neutron star, using a microphysical equation of state (EoS) as well as an approximate description of deleptonization…

Gravitational waveform predictions from 3D simulations of explosions of non-rotating massive stars with no magnetic fields have been extensively studied. However, the impact of magnetic fields and rotation on the core-collapse supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Jade Powell , Bernhard Müller

The core collapse of a massive star at the end of its life can give rise to one of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe. Because of violent mass motions that take place during the explosion, core-collapse supernovae have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-05 Alessandro Veutro , Irene Di Palma , Marco Drago , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Robin van der Laag , Melissa López , Fulvio Ricci

Nonspherical stellar collapse to a black hole is one of the most promising gravitational wave sources for gravitational wave detectors. We numerically study gravitational waves from a slightly nonspherical stellar collapse to a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Tomohiro Harada , Hideo Iguchi , Masaru Shibata

In this Letter, we report on the gravitational wave signal computed in the context of an $ab$ $initio$, three-dimensional simulation of a core collapse supernova explosion, beginning with a 15M$_\odot$ star and using state-of-the-art weak…

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are sources of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by hydrodynamical instabilities and highly time-dependent anisotropies of the neutrino radiation. In this work we analyze both contributions to the GW signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Alessandro Lella , Giuseppe Lucente , Daniel Kresse , Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Alessandro Mirizzi

We analyze the directional dependence of the gravitational wave (GW) emission from 15 3D neutrino radiation hydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernovae. Using spin weighted spherical harmonics, we develop a new analytic technique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Michael A. Pajkos , Steven J. VanCamp , Kuo-Chuan Pan , David Vartanyan , Nils Deppe , Sean M. Couch

By performing a series of two-dimensional, special relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, we study signatures of gravitational waves (GWs) in the magnetohydrodynamically-driven core-collapse supernovae. In order to extract the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We derive models of rotating very massive stellar cores with mass $\approx 10^2$--$10^4M_\odot$ which are marginally stable to the pair-unstable collapse, assuming that the core is isentropic and composed primarily of oxygen. It is shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi

Hydrodynamic turbulence driven by crust-core differential rotation imposes a fundamental noise floor on gravitational wave observations of neutron stars. The gravitational wave emission peaks at the Kolmogorov decoherence frequency which,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul D. Lasky , Mark F. Bennett , Andrew Melatos

Black holes in core-collapse of massive stars are expected to surge in mass and angular momentum by hyper-accretion immediately following their formation. We here describe a general framework of extended emission in gravitational waves from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Amir Levinson , Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Guy Pick

Context. Gravitational waves (GW) provide a unique probe of the explosion mechanism of massive stars and the evolution of nascent proto-neutron stars (PNS). Magnetorotational explosions are one of the promising non-canonical core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Shota Shibagaki , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Takami Kuroda , Tobias Fischer