Nucleosynthesis in jets from rotating magnetized stars during core collapse

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Fission Reactors, Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Gamma-Ray

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We investigate nucleosynthesis inside magnetically driven jets ejected from rotating, magnetized massive stars, or collapsars, based on long-term, magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the core collapse of six collapsars with the various distributions of magnetic fields and angular momentum before the collapse. We follow the evolution of the abundances of about 4000 nuclides from the collapse phase to the ejection phase and through the jet generation phase using a large nuclear reaction network. We find that the r-process successfully operates in the jets from three collapsars, so that U and Th are synthesized abundantly, even when the collapsar have a relatively small magnetic field (1010 G) and a moderately rotating core before the collapse. The abundance patterns inside the jets are similar to that of the r-elements in the solar system.

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