Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-04-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 5 figures (BW=ps)/color=gif), latex, aipproc.sty. In 20th Texas Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics, AIP-Publ
Scientific paper
Core collapse supernovae (SN) are the final stages of stellar evolution in massive stars during which the central region collapses, forms a neutron star (NS), and the outer layers are ejected. Recent explosion scenarios assumed that the ejection is due to energy deposition by neutrinos into the envelope but detailed models do not produce powerful explosions. There is new and mounting evidence for an asphericity and, in particular, for axial symmetry in several SNe which may be hard to reconcile within the spherical picture. This evidence includes the observed high polarization and its variation with time, pulsar kicks, high velocity iron-group and intermediate-mass elements material in remnants & direct observations of the debris of SN87A.Any successful mechanism must invoke some sort of axial symmetry for the explosion. As limiting case, we consider jet-induced/dominated explosions of "classical" core collapse SNe. Our study is based on detailed 3-D hydro and radiation transport models. The jet properties and of the progenitor structure influence on the final density and chemical structure. Our calculations show that low velocity, massive jets can explain the observations. Both asymmetric ionization and density/chemical distributions have been identified as crucial for the formation of asymmetric photospheres. Even within the picture of jet-induced explosion, the latter effect alone fails to explain early polarization in core collapse SNe with a massive, hydrogen-rich envelopes such as SN1999em.
Hoeflich Peter
Khokhlov Alexei
Wang Lanjuan
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