Neutrino Signal of Electron-Capture Supernovae from Core Collapse to Cooling

Dec, 2009
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 104 (2010) 251101,
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 249901 (erratum)
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Abstract: (arXiv)
An 8.8 solar mass electron-capture supernova (SN) was simulated in spherical symmetry consistently from collapse through explosion to nearly complete deleptonization of the forming neutron star. The evolution time of about 9 s is short because of nucleon-nucleon correlations in the neutrino opacities. After a brief phase of accretion-enhanced luminosities (~200 ms), luminosity equipartition among all species becomes almost perfect and the spectra of electron antineutrinos and muon/tau antineutrinos very similar. We discuss consequences for the neutrino-driven wind as a nucleosynthesis site and for flavor oscillations of SN neutrinos.
Note:
  • 4 pages, 4 eps figures/ published as Physical Review Letters, vol. 104, Issue 25, id. 251101
  • 26.30.-k
  • 99.10.Cd
  • 97.60.Jd
  • 97.60.Bw
  • 95.85.Ry
  • neutrino: opacity
  • nucleon nucleon: correlation
  • neutrino: oscillation
  • neutrino: energy spectrum
  • supernova: collapse