The Magneto-Rotational Instability in Core-Collapse Supernovae

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We present numerical magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the effect of weak magnetic field on idealized Standing Accretion Shocks (SAS) that arise in classical core-collapse supernovae, wherein an expanding shock front stalls at a radius of order 200 km and remains quite stationary for a relatively long period of time (300 ms or more). In the models we present here, specific angular momentum is fixed at the outer boundary where outer core material is free-falling onto the stalled accretion shock. To ensure that the initial seed magnetic field has a poloidal component, a necessary condition for the possible growth of magneto-rotational instability (MRI), we use a weak dipole magnetic field. Our fully dynamical simulations of this interaction of rotation and the magnetic field in SAS in the context of core-collapse supernovae, show a substantial exponential growth of the magnetic field energy that can exceed 8 orders of magnitude, and which dominates the linear growth process of ``field-line wrapping''. This is characteristic of MRI growth in our models.

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