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Nucleosynthesis in neutrino-driven winds in hypernovae

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-09-23 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We investigate the nucleosynthesis in the neutrino-driven winds blown off from a 3M3M_\odot massive proto-neutron star (mPNS) temporarily formed during the collapse of a 100M100M_\odot star. Such mPNSs would be formed in hypernovae. We construct steady and spherically symmetric wind solutions. We set large neutrino luminosities of 1053 erg s1\sim 10^{53}\ {\rm erg\ s^{-1}} and average energies of electron neutrinos and antineutrinos in the ranges of ϵνe=916 MeV\epsilon_{\nu_e}=9-16\ {\rm MeV} and ϵνˉe=1118 MeV\epsilon_{\bar{\nu}_e}=11-18\ {\rm MeV} based on a recent numerical relativity simulation. The wind solutions indicate much shorter temperature-decrease timescale than that of the winds from ordinary PNSs and, depending on ϵν\epsilon_\nu, the winds can be both neutron-rich and proton-rich. In the neutron-rich wind, the rr-process occurs and the abundance distribution of a fiducial wind model of the mPNS gives an approximate agreement with the abundance pattern of metal-poor weak rr star HD~122563, although the third-peak elements are produced only when the νˉe\bar{\nu}_e energy is much larger than the νe\nu_e energy. In the proton-rich wind, the strong νp\nu p-process occurs and A>100A>100 nuclides are synthesized. The synthesized nuclei can be neutron-rich in some cases because the large neutrino luminosity of the mPNS supplies a sufficient amount of neutrons.

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@article{arxiv.1507.05945,
  title  = {Nucleosynthesis in neutrino-driven winds in hypernovae},
  author = {Sho Fujibayashi and Takashi Yoshida and Yuichiro Sekiguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.05945},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

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