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The gravitational wave (GW) signal resulting from stellar core collapse encodes a wealth of information about the physical parameters of the progenitor star and the resulting core-collapse supernova (CCSN). We present a novel approach to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-24 Michael A. Pajkos , MacKenzie L. Warren , Sean M. Couch , Evan P. O'Connor , Kuo-Chuan Pan

In this work, we propose a new source for gravitational wave (GW) radiation associated with the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase transition in the inner cores of neutron stars. The mechanism is based on the bubble dynamics during the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-02 Gaoqing Cao , Shu Lin

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

We study the consequences of a hadron-quark phase transition (PT) in failing core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) which give birth to stellar-mass black holes (BH). We perform a suite of neutrino-transport general-relativistic hydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Shuai Zha , Evan P. O'Connor , André da Silva Schneider

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 perform two-dimensional, magnetohydrodynamical core-collapse simulations of massive stars accompanying the QCD phase transition. We study how the phase transition affects the gravitational waveforms near the epoch of core-bounce. As for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nobutoshi Yasutake , Kei Kotake , Masa-aki Hashimoto , Shoichi Yamada

Using predictions from three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamics simulations of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), we present a coherent network analysis to detection, reconstruction, and the source localization of the gravitational-wave (GW)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-31 Kazuhiro Hayama , Takami Kuroda , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki

We study properties of gravitational waves (GWs) from rotating core-collapse of a 15M_odot star by performing three-dimensional general-relativistic hydrodynamic simulations with an approximate neutrino transport. By parametrically changing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-19 Takami Kuroda , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We study the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) during a cosmological first-order phase transition (PT) using the recently introduced Higgsless approach to numerically simulate the fluid motion induced by the PT. We present for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Chiara Caprini , Ryusuke Jinno , Thomas Konstandin , Alberto Roper Pol , Henrique Rubira , Isak Stomberg

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 study the gravitational wave (GW) production in extremely strong first order phase transitions where the latent heat density dominates the plasma energy density, $\alpha \gtrsim 1$. In such transitions, bubbles develop extremely thin and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Ryusuke Jinno , Hyeonseok Seong , Masahiro Takimoto , Choong Min Um

The possible role of a first order QCD phase transition at nonvanishing quark chemical potential and temperature for cold neutron stars and for supernovae is delineated. For cold neutron stars, we use the NJL model with nonvanishing color…

Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are powerful sources of gravitational waves (GWs). These signals propagate essentially unobstructed, providing a unique probe of the supernova central engine. In this work, we investigate parameter…

Improvements in ground-based, advanced gravitational wave (GW) detectors may allow in the near future to observe the GW signal of a nearby core-collapse supernova. For the most common type of progenitors, likely with slowly rotating cores,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Andrea Passamonti , Martin Obergaulinger , José A. Font

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 results from a new set of 3D general-relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of rotating iron core collapse. We assume octant symmetry and focus on axisymmetric collapse, bounce, the early postbounce evolution, and the associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 C. D. Ott , E. Abdikamalov , E. O'Connor , C. Reisswig , R. Haas , P. Kalmus , S. Drasco , A. Burrows , E. Schnetter

Gravitational waves are a potential direct probe for the multi-dimensional flow during the first second of core-collapse supernova explosions. Here we outline the structure of the predicted gravitational wave signal from neutrino-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-16 Bernhard Müller

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

For finite chemical potential effective models of QCD predict a first order phase transition. In favour for the search of such a phase transition in nature, we construct an equation of state for strange quark matter based on the MIT bag…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-28 T. Fischer , I. Sagert , M. Hempel , G. Pagliara , J. Schaffner-Bielich , A. Mezzacappa , F. -K. Thielemann , M. Liebendorfer

What is the maximum possible strength of a first-order electroweak phase transition and the resulting gravitational wave (GW) signal? While naively one might expect that supercooling could increase the strength of the transition to very…

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