English
Related papers

Related papers: The Convective Urca Process with Implicit Two-Dime…

200 papers

We use hydrodynamic simulations with adaptive grid refinement to study the dependence of hot gas flows in X-ray luminous giant elliptical galaxies on the efficiency of heat supply to the gas. We consider a number of potential heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kritsuk , T. Plewa , E. Mueller

We use the field theoretical model to perform relativistic calculations of neutrino energy losses caused by the direct Urca processes on nucleons in the degenerate baryon matter. By our analysis, in a free nucleon gas under beta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 L. B. Leinson

How many fraction of gas available at the outer boundary can finally fall onto the black hole is an important question. It determines the observational appearance of accretion flows, and is also related with the evolution of black hole mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-14 Feng Yuan , De-Fu Bu

How many fraction of gas available at the outer boundary can finally fall onto the black hole is an important question. It determines the observational appearance of accretion flows, and is also related with the evolution of black hole mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Feng Yuan , Defu Bu

When collapse of the iron core in a massive red or yellow supergiant does not lead to an energetic supernova, a significant fraction of the convective hydrogen envelope will fall in towards the black hole formed from the collapsing core.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Andrea Antoni , Eliot Quataert

In this work, we extend our previous study of the bulk viscosity of hot and dense $npe$ matter induced by the Urca processes in the neutrino trapped regime to $npe\mu$ matter by adding the muonic Urca processes as well as the purely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-23 Mark Alford , Arus Harutyunyan , Armen Sedrakian

We present 1D, 2D, and 3D hydrodynamical simulations of core-collapse supernovae including a parameterized neutrino heating and cooling scheme in order to investigate the critical core neutrino luminosity (L_crit) required for explosion. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-16 Sean M. Couch

We present the results of two-dimensional calculations of turbulent nuclear burning of hydrogen-rich material accreted onto a white dwarf of 1 solar mass. The main aim of the present paper is to investigate the question as to whether and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Kercek , W. Hillebrandt , J. Truran

We calculate the thermal and dynamical evolution of the surface layers of an accreting neutron star during the rise of a superburst. For the first few hours following unstable 12C ignition, the nuclear energy release is transported by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nevin N. Weinberg , Lars Bildsten , Edward F. Brown

In this work we generalize the notion of convective inhibition to apply in cases where there is an infinite reservoir of condensible species (i.e., an ocean). We propose a new model for the internal structure and thermal evolution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Steve Markham , Dave Stevenson , Tristan Guillot

The neutrino-heated "gain layer" immediately behind the stalled shock in a core-collapse supernova is unstable to high-Reynolds-number turbulent convection. We carry out and analyze a new set of 19 high-resolution three-dimensional (3D)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Sean M. Couch , Christian D. Ott

We study turbulent convection during the core helium flash close to its peak by comparing the results of two and three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations. We use a multidimensional Eulerian hydrodynamics code based on state-of-the-art…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Mocak , E. Mueller , A. Weiss , K. Kifonidis

The purpose of this paper is to explore the dynamical behaviour of hot accretion flow with thermal conduction. The importance of thermal conduction on hot accretion flow is confirmed by observations of the hot gas that surrounds Sgr A$^*$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-11 Kazem Faghei

Non-spherical structure in massive stars at the point of iron core collapse can have a qualitative impact on the properties of the ensuing core-collapse supernova explosions and the multi-messenger signals they produce. Strong perturbations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 C. E. Fields , S. M. Couch

Using numerical simulations, we show that the asymptotic states of two-dimensional (2D) Euler turbulence exhibit large-scale flow structures due to nonzero energy transfers among small wavenumber modes. These asymptotic states, which depend…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-29 Mahendra K. Verma , Soumyadeep Chatterjee

We investigate the influence of nucleon superfluidity on the neutrino emissivity of non-equilibrium beta processes. Calculations are performed of the reduction factors for direct and modified Urca processes with three types of nucleon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-14 Chun-Mei Pi , Xiao-Ping Zheng , Shu-Hua Yang

Two dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of convective oxygen burning shell in the presupernova evolution of a 20 solar-mass star are extended to later times. We used the VULCAN code to simulate longer evolution times than previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Asida , David Arnett

Multi-dimensional fluid flow plays a paramount role in the explosions of massive stars as core-collapse supernovae. In recent years, three-dimensional (3D) simulations of these phenomena have matured significantly. Considerable progress has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 B. Müller

We present results from a numerical solution to the burning of neutron matter inside a cold neutron star into stable (u,d,s) quark matter. Our method solves hydrodynamical flow equations in 1D with neutrino emission from weak equilibrating…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-12-28 Brian Niebergal , Rachid Ouyed , Prashanth Jaikumar

We study thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars in scalar-tensor theories for the first time. Whether the rapid cooling due to the direct Urca process occurs or not is an interesting question in the viewpoint of the temperature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-27 Akira Dohi , Ryotaro Kase , Rampei Kimura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Masa-aki Hashimoto