2006/06/30 by Tatsuya Yamasaki, Shoichi Yamada · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Advection #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Galaxy #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Instability #Light curve #Luminosity #Mechanics #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Neutron star #Nuclear physics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Supernova #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/510505
published as Astrophys.J.656:1019-1037,2007 · 46 pages, 19 figures, Accepted by ApJ
arxiv created 2006/10/30 · openalex publication_date 2007/02/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
With an eye toward application to the theory of core-collapse supernovae, we perform a global linear analysis of the stability of spherically symmetric accretion flows through a standing shock wave onto a proto-neutron star. For the unperturbed flows, we adopt spherically symmetric, steady solutions obtained with a realistic equation of state and realistic neutrino reaction rates. These solutions are characterized by the mass accretion rate and neutrino luminosity. Then we solve the equations for linear perturbations numerically, obtaining the eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions. We find the following: (1) The flows are stable for all modes if the neutrino luminosity is lower than a certain value, e.g., ~1 × 10 52 ergs s -1 for = 1.0 M ☉ s -1 . (2) For higher luminosities, nonradial instabilities are induced, probably through advective-acoustic cycles. Interestingly, modes with l = 2 and l = 3 first become unstable for relatively low neutrino luminosities, e.g., ~(2-3) × 10 52 ergs s -1 for the same accretion rate, whereas the l = 1 mode is the most unstable for higher luminosities, ~(3-7) × 10 52 ergs s -1 . These are all oscillatory modes. (3) For still larger luminosities, ≳7 × 10 52 ergs s -1 for = 1.0 M ☉ s -1 , nonoscillatory modes, both radial and nonradial, become unstable. These nonradial modes are identified as convective, and their growth rates have a peak at l = 5-11, depending on the luminosity. We confirm the result from numerical simulations that the instabilities induced by advective-acoustic cycles are more important than convection for lower neutrino luminosities. Furthermore, we investigate changing the inner boundary conditions and find that while the effects are nonnegligible, the existence of the instabilities does not qualitatively change for a variety of conditions.