Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-11-16
Nucl.Phys. A606 (1996) 167-172
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, uses espcrc2.sty, contribution to Festschrift for G. E. Brown on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Scientific paper
10.1016/0375-9474(96)00268-0
Neutrinos emitted from near the surface of the hot proto-neutron star produced by a supernova explosion may be subject to significant gravitational redshift at late times. Electron antineutrinos decouple deeper in the gravitational potential well of the neutron star than do the electron neutrinos, so that the electron antineutrinos experience a larger redshift effect than do the electron neutrinos. We show how this differential redshift can increase the electron fraction Ye in the neutrino-heated ejecta from the neutron star. Any r-process nucleosynthesis originating in the neutrino-heated ejecta would require a low Ye, implying that the differential redshift effect cannot be too large. In turn, this effect may allow nucleosynthesis to probe the nuclear equation of state parameters which set the neutron star radius and surface density scale height at times of order tpb = 10 to 25 s after core bounce.
Fuller George M.
Qian Yong-Zhong
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