Standing Accretion Shocks in the Supernova Core: Effects of Convection and Realistic EOS

Details Standing Accretion Shocks in the Supernova Core: Effects of Convection and Realistic EOS Standing Accretion Shocks in the Supernova Core: Effects of Convection and Realistic EOS

2006-06-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606504v2

Astrophys.J.650:291-298,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by ApJ, 20 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/507067

We investigated the structure of the spherically symmetric accretion flows through the standing shock wave onto the proto-neutron star in the post-bounce phase of the collapse-driven supernova. We assume that the accretion flow is in a steady state controlled by the neutrino luminosity and mass accretion rate that are kept constant. We obtain solutions of the steady Euler equations for a wide range of neutrino luminosity and mass accretion rate. We employ a realistic EOS and neutrino-heating rates. More importantly, we take into account the effect of convection phenomenologically. For each mass accretion rate, we find the critical neutrino luminosity, above which there exists no steady solution. These critical points are supposed to mark the onset of the shock revival. As the neutrino luminosity increases for a given mass accretion rate, there appears a convectively unstable region at some point before the critical value is reached. We introduce a phenomenological energy flux by convection so that the negative entropy gradient should be canceled out. We find that the convection lowers the critical neutrino luminosity substantially. We also consider the effect of the self-gravity. It is found that the self-gravity is important only when the neutrino luminosity is high. The critical luminosity, however, is little affected if the energy transport by convection is taken into account.

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