General Relativistic Simulations of Stellar Core Collapse and Postbounce Evolution with Boltzmann Neutrino Transport

Abstract

We present self-consistent general relativistic simulations of stellar core collapse, bounce, and postbounce evolution for 13, 15, and 20 solar mass progenitors in spherical symmetry. Our simulations implement three-flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport and standard nuclear physics. The results are compared to our corresponding simulations with Newtonian hydrodynamics and O(v/c) Boltzmann transport.

arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Proceedings of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, edited by J.C. Wheeler and H. Martel (American Institute of Physics)

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