3D collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity with microphysics

Ott, C.D., Dimmelmeier, H., Marek, A., Janka, H.-T., Hawke, I., Zink, B. and Schnetter, E. (2007) 3D collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity with microphysics. Physical Review Letters, 98 (26), 261101-[4pp]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.261101).

Abstract

We present results from the first 2D and 3D simulations of the collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity employing a finite-temperature equation of state and an approximate treatment of deleptonization during collapse. We compare fully nonlinear and conformally flat spacetime evolution methods and find that the conformally flat treatment is sufficiently accurate for the core-collapse supernova problem. We focus on the gravitational wave (GW) emission from rotating collapse, core bounce, and early postbounce phases. Our results indicate that the GW signature of these phases is much more generic than previously estimated. In addition, we track the growth of a nonaxisymmetric instability of dominant m = 1 character in one of our models that leads to prolonged narrow-band GW emission at ~930 Hz over several tens of milliseconds.

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Author: I. Hawke

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