Magnetorotational supernovae

Authors: Ardeljan, N. V.; Bisnovatyi-Kogan, G. S.; Moiseenko, S. G.

Source: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 359, Number 1, May 2005 , pp. 333-344(12)

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Abstract:

We present the results of two-dimensional simulations of the magnetorotational model of a supernova explosion. After the core collapse, the core consists of a rapidly rotating protoneutron star and a differentially rotating envelope. The toroidal part of the magnetic energy generated by the differential rotation grows linearly with time at the initial stage of the evolution of the magnetic field. The linear growth of the toroidal magnetic field is terminated by the development of magnetorotational (MRI) instability, leading to drastic acceleration in the growth of magnetic energy. At the moment when the magnetic pressure becomes comparable with the gas pressure at the periphery of the protoneutron star ∼10–15 km from the star centre, the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) compression wave appears and goes through the envelope of the collapsed iron core. It transforms soon to the fast MHD shock and produces a supernova explosion. Our simulations give the energy of the explosion 0.6 × 10⁵¹ erg . The amount of the mass ejected by the explosion is ∼0.14 M_⊙ . The implicit numerical method, based on the Lagrangian triangular grid of variable structure, was used for the simulations.

Keywords: MHD; supernovae: general

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08888.x

Publication date: 2005-05-01