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most citedFast collective neutrino oscillations inside the neutrino sphere in core-collapse supernovae

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astro-ph.HE2026★ 5 cited

Bifurcated Impact of Neutrino Fast Flavor Conversion on Core-collapse Supernovae Informed by Multi-angle Neutrino Radiation Hydrodynamics

Ryuichiro Akaho, Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami +6

In this {\it Letter}, we present a compelling and robust argument for the roles of neutrino fast flavor conversion (FFC) in the explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernova (CCSN…

astro-ph.HE2025

Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande.VI. A Practical Data Analysis Technique Considering Realistic Experimental Backgrounds

Fumi Nakanishi, Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Masayuki Harada +9

Neutrinos from supernovae, especially those emitted during the late phase of core collapse, are essential for understanding the final stages of massive star evolution. We have been…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Neutrino Constraints on Black Hole Formation in M31

Yudai Suwa, Ryuichiro Akaho, Yosuke Ashida +9

We investigate neutrino signals associated with black hole formation resulting from the gravitational collapse of massive stars, motivated by the candidate failed supernova M31-201…

hep-ph2024

An Extended Closure Relation by LightGBM for Neutrino Radiation Transport in Core-collapse Supernovae

Shota Takahashi, Akira Harada, Shoichi Yamada

We developed a machine learning model using LightGBM, one of the most popular gradient-boosting decision tree methods these days, to predict the Eddington tensor, or the second-ord…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande. V. Distance Estimation with Neutrinos

Yudai Suwa, Akira Harada, Masamitsu Mori +7

Neutrinos are pivotal signals in multi-messenger observations of supernovae (SNe). Recent advancements in the analysis method of supernova (SN) neutrinos, especially in quantitativ…

astro-ph.HE2024

Machine Learning-Based Detection of Non-Axisymmetric Fast Neutrino Flavor Instabilities in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Sajad Abbar, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura

In dense neutrino environments like core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) and neutron star mergers (NSMs), neutrinos can undergo fast flavor conversions (FFC) when their angular distrib…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande. IV. Development of SPECIAL BLEND: a New Public Analysis Code for Supernova Neutrinos

Akira Harada, Yudai Suwa, Masayuki Harada +6

Supernova neutrinos are invaluable signals that offer information about the interior of supernovae. Because a nearby supernova can occur at any time, preparing for future supernova…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

Effects of nuclear matter and composition in core-collapse supernovae and long-term proto-neutron star cooling

Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Shun Furusawa, Hiroki Nagakura +4

We study the influence of hot and dense matter in core-collapse supernovae by adopting up-to-date nuclear equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic nuclear many-body framewo…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Protoneutron Star Convection Simulated with a New General Relativistic Boltzmann Neutrino Radiation-Hydrodynamics Code

Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura +6

We investigate the protoneutron star (PNS) convection using our newly developed general relativistic Boltzmann neutrino radiation-hydrodynamics code. This is a pilot study for more…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande. III. Extraction of Mass and Radius of Neutron Stars from Synthetic Data

Yudai Suwa, Akira Harada, Masayuki Harada +6

Neutrinos are guaranteed to be observable from the next galactic supernova (SN). Optical light and gravitational waves are also observable, but may be difficult to observe if the l…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 60 cited

Prospects of fast flavor neutrino conversion in rotating core-collapse supernovae

Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura

There is mounting evidence that neutrinos undergo fast flavor conversion (FFC) in core-collapse supernova (CCSN). In this letter, we investigate the roles of stellar rotation on th…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 9 cited

Principal-Axis Analysis of the Eddington Tensor for the Early Post-Bounce Phase of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae

Wakana Iwakami, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura +6

Using full Boltzmann neutrino transport, we performed two-dimensional (2D) core-collapse supernova simulations in axisymmetry for two progenitor models with 11.2M and 15.0M both ro…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 23 cited

Observing Supernova Neutrino Light Curves with Super-Kamiokande. II. Impact of the Nuclear Equation of State

Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Fumi Nakanishi, Masayuki Harada +6

The late-time evolution of the neutrino event rate from supernovae is evaluated for Super-Kamiokande using simulated results of proto-neutron star (PNS) cooling. In the present wor…

gr-qc2021★ 5 cited

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy in the nascent era

Makoto Arimoto, Hideki Asada, Michael L. Cherry +50

The detections of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO/Virgo collaborations provide various possibilities to physics and astronomy. We are quite sure that GW observations will develop…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Deep Learning of the Eddington Tensor in the Core-collapse Supernova Simulation

Akira Harada, Shota Nishikawa, Shoichi Yamada

We trained deep neural networks (DNNs) as a function of the neutrino energy density, flux, and the fluid velocity to reproduce the Eddington tensor for neutrinos obtained in our fi…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 1 cited

Developing an end-to-end simulation framework of supernova neutrino detection

Masamitsu Mori, Yudai Suwa, Ken'ichiro Nakazato +5

Massive stars can explode as supernovae at the end of their life cycle, releasing neutrinos whose total energy reaches erg. Moreover, neutrinos play key roles in supernov…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 21 cited

Multidimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Code in Full General Relativity for Core-collapse Simulations

Ryuichiro Akaho, Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura +6

We develop a neutrino transfer code for core-collapse simulations, that directly solves the multidimensional Boltzmann equations in full general relativity. We employ the discrete…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

Analytic solutions for neutrino-light curves of core-collapse supernovae

Yudai Suwa, Akira Harada, Ken'ichiro Nakazato +1

Neutrinos are a guaranteed signal from supernova explosions in the Milky Way, and a most valuable messenger that can provide us with information about the deepest parts of supernov…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

Simulations of the Early Post-Bounce Phase of Core-Collapse Supernovae in Three-Dimensional Space with Full Boltzmann Neutrino Transport

Wakana Iwakami, Hirotada Okawa, Hiroki Nagakura +5

We report on the core-collapse supernova simulation we conducted for a 11.2 M progenitor model in three-dimensional space up to 20 ms after bounce, using a radiation hydrodynamics…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 34 cited

The Boltzmann-radiation-hydrodynamics Simulations of Core-collapse Supernovae with Different Equations of State: the Role of Nuclear Composition and the Behavior of Neutrinos

Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami +5

Using the Boltzmann-radiation-hydrodynamics code, which solves the Boltzmann equation for neutrino transport, we present the results of the simulations with the nuclear equations o…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 109 cited

Fast collective neutrino oscillations inside the neutrino sphere in core-collapse supernovae

Milad Delfan Azari, Shoichi Yamada, Taiki Morinaga +6

Neutrinos are believed to have a key role in the explosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae as they carry most of the energy released by the gravitational collapse of a massiv…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 41 cited

On the Neutrino Distributions in Phase Space for the Rotating Core-collapse Supernova Simulated with a Boltzmann-neutrino-radiation-hydrodynamics Code

Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami +5

With the Boltzmann-radiation-hydrodynamics code, which we have developed to solve numerically the Boltzmann equations for neutrino transfer, the Newtonian hydrodynamics equations,…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3 cited

A Parametric Study of the Acoustic Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernovae

A. Harada, H. Nagakura, W. Iwakami +1

We investigate the criterion for the acoustic mechanism to work successfully in core-collapse supernovae. The acoustic mechanism is an alternative to the neutrino-heating mechanism…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 103 cited

Simulations of core-collapse supernovae in spatial axisymmetry with full Boltzmann neutrino transport

Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami, Shun Furusawa +6

We present the first results of our spatially axisymmetric core-collapse supernova simulations with full Boltzmann neutrino transport, which amount to a time-dependent 5-dimensiona…