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Determining the Structure of Rotating Massive Stellar Cores with Gravitational Waves

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal
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  1. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Computational Mathematics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics-Center for the Evolution of the Elements; OSTI
  2. National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellow; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics-Center for the Evolution of the Elements; North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States). Department of Physics
  3. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Computational Mathematics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics-Center for the Evolution of the Elements; Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
  4. Stockholm University, Stockholm (Sweden). Department of Astronomy and The Oskar Klein Centre
  5. Tsinghua Univ., Taiwan (China). Department of Physics, Institute of Astronomy, Center for Informatics and Computation, National Center for Theoretical Sciences
The gravitational wave (GW) signal resulting from stellar core collapse encodes a wealth of information about the physical parameters of the progenitor star and the resulting core-collapse supernova (CCSN). We present a novel approach to constrain CCSN progenitor properties at collapse using two of the most detectable parts of the GW signal: the core-bounce signal and evolution of the dominant frequency mode from the protoneutron star. We focus on the period after core bounce but before explosion and investigate the predictive power of GWs from rotating CCSNe to constrain properties of the progenitor star. We analyze 34 2D and four 3D neutrino-radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of stellar core collapse in progenitors of varied initial mass and rotation rate. Extending previous work, we verify the compactness of the progenitor at collapse to correlate with the early ramp-up slope, and in rotating cases, also with the core angular momentum. Combining this information with the bounce signal, we present a new analysis method to constrain the pre-collapse core compactness of the progenitor. Because these GW features occur less than a second after core bounce, this analysis could allow astronomers to predict electromagnetic properties of a resulting CCSN even before shock breakout.
Research Organization:
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0015904; SC0017955
OSTI ID:
1852038
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 23151733
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal, Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 914; ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher:
IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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