GW1 - Sources of Gravitational Waves |
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Ott, Christian David |
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Probing the Core-Collapse Supernova Mechanism with Gravitational Waves |
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Despite many decades of concerted theoretical effort and numerical modeling, the details of the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism are still under debate. Indications are strong that the supernova mechanism is intrinsically multi-dimensional and involves (a combination of) postbounce energy deposition by neutrinos, convective instability, the standing-accretion-shock instability (SASI), protoneutron star core oscillations, rotation, and magneto-hydrodynamic effects. I review the current status of core-collapse supernova modeling and introduce the ensemble of candidate explosion mechanisms that is emerging from recent multi-dimensional simulations. I go on to discuss gravitational-wave (GW) emission processes in core-collapse supernovae and present new results on the supernova gravitational-wave signature that were obtained with 2D/3D general relativistic and Newtonian simulations. I demonstrate how GWs observed by current and future LCGT/advLIGO-class detectors could be used to constrain the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism. |
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