Gravitational Wave Signatures of Magnetohydrodynamically-Driven Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions

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2010-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/1004.2896v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

34pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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By performing a series of two-dimensional, special relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations, we study signatures of gravitational waves (GWs) in the magnetohydrodynamically-driven core-collapse supernovae. In order to extract the gravitational waveforms, we present a stress formula including contributions both from magnetic fields and special relativistic corrections. By changing the precollapse magnetic fields and initial angular momentum distributions parametrically, we compute twelve models. As for the microphysics, a realistic equation of state is employed and the neutrino cooling is taken into account via a multiflavor neutrino leakage scheme. With these computations, we find that the total GW amplitudes show a monotonic increase after bounce for models with a strong precollapse magnetic field ($10^{12}$G) also with a rapid rotation imposed. We show that this trend stems both from the kinetic contribution of MHD outflows with large radial velocities and also from the magnetic contribution dominated by the toroidal magnetic fields that predominantly trigger MHD explosions. For models with weaker initial magnetic fields, the total GW amplitudes after bounce stay almost zero, because the contribution from the magnetic fields cancels with the one from the hydrodynamic counterpart. These features can be clearly understood with a careful analysis on the explosion dynamics. We point out that the GW signals with the increasing trend, possibly visible to the next-generation detectors for a Galactic supernova, would be associated with MHD explosions with the explosion energies exceeding $10^{51}$ erg.

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