The r-Process in Black Hole Winds
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-05-19 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
All the current r-process scenarios relevant to core-collapse supernovae are facing severe difficulties. In particular, recent core-collapse simulations with neutrino transport show no sign of a neutron-rich wind from the proto-neutron star. In this paper, we discuss nucleosynthesis of the r-process in an alternative astrophysical site, "black hole winds", which are the neutrino-driven outflow from the accretion torus around a black hole. This condition is assumed to be realized in double neutron star mergers, neutron star - black hole mergers, or hypernovae.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.2277,
title = {The r-Process in Black Hole Winds},
author = {Shinya Wanajo and Hans-Thomas Janka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.2277},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at OMEG10, March 2010, to be published in the proceedings of OMEG10 (AIP)