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Magnetar-Powered Supernova Explosions

Ke-Jung (Ken) Chen EACOA Fellow, NAOJ and ASIAA

IAU Gruber Fellow, UC Santa Cruz CfCA User Meeting, 11/30/2016

Nordhaus+ 2010

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Neutrino-Powered SN Explosions

Jet as a Dynamite

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Super Luminous SNe (SLSNe)

Smith+ 2007

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Energy Input from NS

SLSNe by magnetar B = 4e14 G

Chen, Woosley, & Sukhbold (ApJ in press; arXiv:1604.07989)

Density spike in 1D magnetar

The shortcoming of 1D SLSN Models

Obs. Signatures

Multi-D SN Simulations 1D Models 30 - 45 M⊙ Stars ( Sukhbold & Woosley)

CASTRO Massive Parallel, Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR), Multi-D, Radiation, Hydro+( Burning, Rotation, GR ... ) (Almgren+ 2010, Zheng+ 2011 2012, Chen+ 2011 2012)

Supercomputers:

ATERUI (~ 24k cores) Edison (~134k cores)

It’s

P = 1 ms, B = 4e14 GChen, Woosley, Sukhbold (ApJ in press)

SLSNe in 2D

Fluid Instabilities

Radiation Breakout P = 1 ms, B = 4e14 G P = 5 ms, B = 4e14 G

Density Profiles

Chen, Woosley, Sukhbold (arXiv:1604.07989)

SLSNe by magnetar

HypernovaeB > 1e16 G, P < 1 ms

Ni Production

Not too much Ni!

Explosions

Jet only Model

A black hole form!

Yields and Mixing

Light Curves

Not very luminous ! But…

There may be a GRB, too !

Toward Realistic SN observational Signatures

A Type Ia Example from Kasen+ 2008

Multidimensional Radiation Transport Simulations of Exotic SNe !!

Multidimensional Radiation Transport Simulations of Extreme SNe

Chen, Woosley, & Zhang in prep.

My work has been kindly supported by:

Many thanks for your attention

East Asian Core Observatories Association (EACOA)