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By performing axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations of core-collapse supernovae with spectral neutrino transport based on the isotropic diffusion source approximation scheme, we support the assumption that the neutrino-heating mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yudai Suwa , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Stuart C. Whitehouse , Matthias Liebendoerfer , Katsuhiko Sato

We perform hydrodynamic supernova simulations in spherical symmetry for over 100 single stars of solar metallicity to explore the progenitor-explosion and progenitor-remnant connections established by the neutrino-driven mechanism. We use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marcella Ugliano , H. -Thomas Janka , Andreas Marek , Almudena Arcones

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is of key importance in many high-energy astrophysical systems, where MHD instabilities can amplify local magnetic field over very short time scales. Specifically, the magnetorotational instability (MRI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-30 Philipp Mösta , Christian D. Ott , David Radice , Luke F. Roberts , Erik Schnetter , Roland Haas

In this paper we report on the early evolution of core-collapse supernova explosion following the birth of a magnetar with the dipolar magnetic field of B=10^{15}G and the rotational period of 2ms, which was studied by means of axisymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. S. Komissarov , M. V. Barkov

We present results from three-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamic, core-collapse simulations of sixteen progenitors following until 0.5 s after bounce. We use non-rotating solar-metallicity progenitor models with zero-age main-sequence mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 Ko Nakamura , Tomoya Takiwaki , Jin Matsumoto , Kei Kotake

We performed the first numerical simulations of magnetorotational instability from a sub-magnetar-class seed magnetic field in core collapse supernovae. As a result of axisymmetric ideal MHD simulations, we found that the magnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada , Hideyuki Suzuki

Self-consistent, multidimensional core-collapse supernova (SN) simulations, especially in 3D, have achieved tremendous progress over the past 10 years. They are now able to follow the entire evolution from core collapse through bounce,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 H. -Thomas Janka

We perform two-dimensional numerical simulations on the core-collapse of a massive star with strong magnetic fields and differential rotations using a numerical code ZEUS-2D. Changing field configurations and laws of differential rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hidetomo Sawai , Kei Kotake , Shoichi Yamada

We perform a series of simplified numerical experiments to explore how rotation impacts on the three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamics of core-collapse supernovae. For the sake of our systematic study, we employ a light-bulb scheme to trigger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Ko Nakamura , Takami Kuroda , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

The idea of the magnetorotational explosion mechanism is that the energy of rotation of the neutron star formed in the course of a collapse is transformed into the energy of an expanding shock wave by means of a magnetic field. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-01 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , S. G. Moiseenko , N. V. Ardelyan

We perform spherically-symmetric general-relativistic simulations of core collapse and the postbounce preexplosion phase in 32 presupernova stellar models of solar metallicity with zero-age-main-sequence masses of 12 M_{sun} to 120 M_{sun}.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-31 Evan O'Connor , Christian D. Ott

We perform a series of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic core-collapse simulations of rapidly rotating and strongly magnetized massive stars. To study the properties of magnetic explosions for a longer time stretch of postbounce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Katsuhiko Sato

The release of spin-down energy by a magnetar is a promising scenario to power several classes of extreme explosive transients. However, it lacks a firm basis because magnetar formation still represents a theoretical challenge. Using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-17 Raphaël Raynaud , Jérôme Guilet , Hans-Thomas Janka , Thomas Gastine

We perform a series of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the rotational core-collapse of a magnetized massive star. We employ a realistic equation of state and take into account the neutrino cooling by the so-called leakage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

Long-term neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for the collapse of rotating massive stars that are evolved from He-stars with their initial mass of $20$ and $32M_\odot$. It is shown that if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Sho Fujibayashi , Koh Takahashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We explore the effects of rapid rotation on the properties of neutrino-heated winds from proto-neutron stars (PNS) formed in core-collapse supernovae or neutron-star mergers by means of three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Dhruv K. Desai , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

We review some of the reasons for believing that the generic core-collapse supernova is neutrino-driven, not MHD-jet driven. We include a discussion of the possible role of rotation in supernova blast energetics and morphology, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam Burrows , Rolf Walder , Christian D. Ott , Eli Livne

We present a suite of seven 3D supernova simulations of non-rotating low-mass progenitors using multi-group neutrino transport. Our simulations cover single star progenitors with zero-age main sequence masses between $9.6 M_\odot$ and $12.5…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 B. Müller , T. M. Tauris , A. Heger , P. Banerjee , Y. -Z. Qian , J. Powell , C. Chan , D. W. Gay , N. Langer

A series of numerical simulations on magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae are carried out. Dipole-like configurations which are offset northward are assumed for the initially strong magnetic fields together with rapid differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hidetomo Sawai , Kei Kotake , Shoichi Yamada

I analyse recent three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of exploding core collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and find that a rapid increase in the diagnostic explosion energy occurs parallel to, or very shortly after, the accretion of gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-01 Noam Soker