Impacts of Collective Neutrino Oscillations on Supernova Explosions

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2011-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/1106.5487v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

accepted for publication in ApJ; 14 pages, 18 figures; quality of some figures reduced

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By performing a series of one- and two-dimensional (1-, 2D) hydrodynamic simulations with spectral neutrino transport, we study possible impacts of collective neutrino oscillations on the dynamics of core-collapse supernovae. To model the spectral swapping which is one of the possible outcome of the collective neutrino oscillations, we parametrize the onset time when the spectral swap begins, the radius where the spectral swap occurs, and the threshold energy above which the spectral interchange between heavy-lepton neutrinos and electron/anti-electron neutrinos takes place, respectively. By doing so, we systematically study how the neutrino heating enhanced by the spectral swapping could affect the shock evolution as well as the matter ejection. We also investigate the progenitor dependence using a suite of progenitor models (13, 15, 20, and 25 $M_\odot$). We find that there is a critical heating rate induced by the spectral swapping to trigger explosions, which significantly differs between the progenitors. The critical heating rate is generally smaller for 2D than 1D due to the multidimensionality that enhances the neutrino heating efficiency. For the progenitors employed in this paper, the final remnant masses are estimated to range in 1.1-1.5$M_\odot$. For our 2D model of the $15M_\odot$ progenitor, we find a set of the oscillation parameters that could account for strong supernova explosions ($\sim 10^{51}$ erg), simultaneously leaving behind the remnant mass close to $\sim 1.4 M_\odot$.

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