Toward computing the gravitational wave signatures of core collapse supernovae

Anthony Mezzacappa, Konstantin N. Yakunin, Pedro Marronetti, Stephen W. Bruenn, Ching Tsai Lee, M. Austin Chertkow, W. Raphael Hix, John M. Blondin, Eric J. Lentz, O. E.Bronson Messer

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Abstract

We present the gravitational wave signatures of three non-parameterized core collapse supernova explosion models for 12, 15, and 25 MQ non-rotating progenitors. The signatures exhibit four distinct stages. The third stage, induced by mass accretion onto the proto-neutron star owing to neutrino-driven convection and the SASI, dominates. The total gravitational wave energy emitted rises quickly as the SASI develops at ~ 200 ms after bounce in all three models and levels off as explosion develops and the convection- and SASI-induced mass accretion powering the explosions and gravitational wave emission decreases. We decompose the gravitational wave signatures spectrally and show that the signal is within AdvLIGO's bandpass for a Galactic event. The fundamental limitation of the current models and their associated predictions is the restriction to axisymmetry. Counterpart three-dimensional models are forthecoming.

Original languageEnglish
Pages57-64
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2011
Event46th Rencontres de Moriond and GPhyS Colloquium on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity 2011 - La Thuile, Italy
Duration: Mar 20 2011Mar 27 2011

Conference

Conference46th Rencontres de Moriond and GPhyS Colloquium on Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity 2011
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityLa Thuile
Period03/20/1103/27/11

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge computational resources provided by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in ORNL’s National Center for Computational Sciences, made available through the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research’s (OASCR) INCITE Program, and computational resources made available at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and the National Institute for Computational Sciences, through the NSF TeraGrid (TG-MCA08X010). AM and WRH acknowledge support from the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, and AM and OEBM acknowledge support from DOE OASCR. AM, OEBM, PM, SWB, and WRH acknowledge support from NASA ATFP (07-ATFP07-0011). PM acknowledges support from NSF-PHYS-0855315, and PM and SWB acknowledge support from NSF-OCI-0749204. The authors would like to acknowledge computational resources provided by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences, made available through the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research's (OASCR) INCITE Program, and computational resources made available at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and the National Institute for Computational Sciences, through the NSF TeraGrid (TG-MCA08X010). AM and WRH acknowledge support from the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, and AM and OEBM acknowledge support from DOE OASCR. AM, OEBM, PM, SWB, and WRH acknowledge support from NASA ATFP (07-ATFP07-0011). PM acknowledges support from NSF-PHYS-0855315, and PM and SWB acknowledge support from NSF-OCI-0749204.

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