Generation of Magnetic Fields by the Stationary Accretion Shock Instability

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2008-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/0811.3385v2

Astrophys.J.713:1219-1243,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

62 pages (aastex, preprint), 24 figures. Rewritten with 3D simulations included. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/713/2/1219

We begin an exploration of the capacity of the stationary accretion shock instability (SASI) to generate magnetic fields by adding a weak, stationary, and radial (but bipolar) magnetic field, and in some cases rotation, to an initially spherically symmetric fluid configuration that models a stalled shock in the post-bounce supernova environment. In axisymmetric simulations we find that cycles of latitudinal flows into and radial flows out of the polar regions amplify the field parallel to the symmetry axis, typically increasing the total magnetic energy by about two orders of magnitude. Nonaxisymmetric calculations result in fundamentally different flows and a larger magnetic energy increase: shearing associated with the SASI spiral mode contributes to a widespread and turbulent field amplification mechanism, boosting the magnetic energy by almost four orders of magnitude (a result which remains very sensitive to the spatial resolution of the numerical simulations). While the SASI may contribute to neutron star magnetization, these simulations do not show qualitatively new features in the global evolution of the shock as a result of SASI-induced magnetic field amplification.

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