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Title: r-process Nucleosynthesis from Three-dimensional Magnetorotational Core-collapse Supernovae

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
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  1. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  4. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Kyoto Univ., Kyoto (Japan)
  5. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  6. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  7. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON (Canada); Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON (Canada); Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)

Here, we investigate r-process nucleosynthesis in 3D general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of rapidly rotating strongly magnetized core collapse. The simulations include a microphysical finite-temperature equation of state and a leakage scheme that captures the overall energetics and lepton number exchange due to postbounce neutrino emission and absorption. We track the composition of the ejected material using the nuclear reaction network SkyNet. Our results show that the 3D dynamics of magnetorotational core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) are important for their nucleosynthetic signature. We find that production of r-process material beyond the second peak is reduced by a factor of 100 when the magnetorotational jets produced by the rapidly rotating core undergo a kink instability. Our results indicate that 3D magnetorotationally powered CCSNe are robust r-process sources only if they are obtained by the collapse of cores with unrealistically large precollapse magnetic fields of the order of 1013 G. Additionally, a comparison simulation that we restrict to axisymmetry results in overly optimistic r-process production for lower magnetic field strengths.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1480039
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-31278
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 864, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 85 works
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