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09 February 2025
 
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Anisotropies in the Neutrino Fluxes and Heating Profiles in Two-dimensional, Time-dependent, Multi-group Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Rotating Core-Collapse Supernovae
R. Walder ; A. Burrows ; C.D. Ott ; E. Livne ; I. Lichtenstadt ; M. Jarrah ;
Date 8 Dec 2004
Journal Astrophys.J. 626 (2005) 317-332
Subject astro-ph
AbstractUsing the 2D multi-group, flux-limited diffusion version of the code VULCAN/2D, that also incorporates rotation, we have calculated the collapse, bounce, shock formation, and early post-bounce evolutionary phases of a core-collapse supernova for a variety of initial rotation rates. This is the first series of such multi-group calculations undertaken in supernova theory with fully multi-D tools. We find that though rotation generates pole-to-equator angular anisotropies in the neutrino radiation fields, the magnitude of the asymmetries is not as large as previously estimated. Moreover, we find that the radiation field is always more spherically symmetric than the matter distribution, with its plumes and convective eddies. We present the dependence of the angular anisotropy of the neutrino fields on neutrino species, neutrino energy, and initial rotation rate. Only for our most rapidly rotating model do we start to see qualitatively different hydrodynamics, but for the lower rates consistent with the pre-collapse rotational profiles derived in the literature the anisotropies, though interesting, are modest. This does not mean that rotation does not play a key role in supernova dynamics. The decrease in the effective gravity due to the centripetal effect can be quite important. Rather, it means that when a realistic mapping between initial and final rotational profiles and 2D multi-group radiation-hydrodynamics are incorporated into collapse simulations the anisotropy of the radiation fields may be only a secondary, not a pivotal factor, in the supernova mechanism.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0412187
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