Features of Accretion-phase Gravitational-wave Emission from Two-dimensional Rotating Core-collapse Supernovae

Abstract

We explore the influence of progenitor mass and rotation on the gravitational-wave (GW) emission from core-collapse supernovae, during the postbounce, preexplosion, accretion-phase. We present the results from 15 two-dimensional (2D) neutrino radiation-hydrodynamic simulations from initial stellar collapse to $\sim$300 ms after core bounce. We examine the features of the GW signals for four zero-age main sequence (ZAMS) progenitor masses ranging from 12 $M_{\odot }$ to 60 $M_{\odot }$ and four core rotation rates from 0 to 3 rad s${}^{-1}$. We find that GW strain immediately around core bounce is fairly independent of ZAMS mass and---consistent with previous findings---that it is more heavily dependent on the core angular momentum. At later times, all nonrotating progenitors exhibit loud GW emission, which we attribute to vibrational g-modes of the protoneutron star (PNS) excited by convection in the postshock layer and the standing accretion shock instability (SASI). We find that increasing rotation rates results in muting of the accretion-phase GW signal due to centrifugal effects that inhibit convection in the postshock region, quench the SASI, and slow the rate at which the PNS peak vibrational frequency increases. Additionally, we verify the efficacy of our approximate general relativistic (GR) effective potential treatment of gravity by comparing our core bounce GW strains with the recent 2D GR results of other groups.

16 pages, 12 figures; accepted to ApJ

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