paper

Gravitational Collapse of Rotating Supermassive Stars including Nuclear Burning Effects

arXiv:1704.00433 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.96.083016

Abstract

Supermassive stars (SMSs) of mass are candidates for seeds of supermassive black holes found in the center of many massive galaxies. We simulate the gravitational collapse of a rigidly rotating SMS core including nuclear burning effects in axisymmetric numerical-relativity simulation. We find that for realistic initial conditions, the nuclear burning does not play an important role. After the collapse, a torus surrounding a rotating black hole is formed and a fraction of the torus material is ejected. We quantitatively study the relation between the properties of these objects and rotation. We find that if a SMS core is sufficiently rapidly rotating, the torus and outflow mass have approximately and of the initial mass, respectively. The typical average velocity and the total kinetic energy of the outflow are and erg where is the speed of light. Finally, we briefly discuss the possibility for observing the torus and outflow.

20 pages, 22 figures, 3 tables, submitted to PRD

References in corpus (13)

Cited by in corpus (34)