C D Ott et al 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 S139 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S10
C D Ott1,2, H Dimmelmeier3, A Marek3, H-T Janka3, B Zink4, I Hawke5 and E Schnetter4
Show affiliationsWe present results from the first 2 + 1 and 3 + 1 simulations of the collapse of rotating stellar iron cores in general relativity employing a finite-temperature equation of state and an approximate treatment of deleptonization during collapse. We compare full 3 + 1 and conformally-flat spacetime evolution methods and find that the conformally-flat treatment is sufficiently accurate for the core-collapse supernova problem. We focus on the gravitational wave (GW) emission from rotating collapse, core bounce and early postbounce phases. Our results indicate that the GW signature of these phases is much more generic than previously estimated. In addition, we track the growth of a nonaxisymmetric instability of dominant m = 1 character in two of our models that leads to prolonged narrow-band GW emission at ~920–930 Hz over several tens of milliseconds.
97.10.Cv Stellar structure, interiors, evolution, nucleosynthesis, ages
95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation
04.40.Dg Relativistic stars: structure, stability, and oscillations
85A05 Galactic and stellar dynamics
83D05 Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories
Issue 12 (21 June 2007)
Received 20 December 2006, in final form 15 March 2007
Published 30 May 2007
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