Effects of Different Closure Choices in Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations

Abstract

The two-moment method is widely used to approximate the full neutrino transport equation in core-collapse supernova (CCSN) simulations, and different closures lead to subtle differences in the simulation results. In this paper, we compare the effects of closure choices on various physical quantities in 1D and 2D time-dependent CCSN simulations with our multi-group radiation hydrodynamics code Fornax. We find that choices of the 3rd-order closure relations influence the time-dependent simulations only slightly. Choices of the 2nd-order closure relation have larger consequences than choices of the 3rd-order closure do, but these are still small compared to the remaining variations due to ambiguities in some physical inputs such as the nuclear equation of state. We also find that deviations in Eddington factors are not monotonically related to deviations in physical quantities, which means that simply comparing the Eddington factors does not inform one concerning which closure is better.

28 pages, 17 figures. Accepted by ApJ

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