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Z=0时的爆炸?

Powerful explosions at Z=0 ?

S. Ekström, G. Meynet, R. Hirschi, A. Maeder

摘要:

由于恒星风非常低,无金属恒星被假定为以恒定质量演化。这导致在演化的最后会有很大的CO核心质量,所以初始质量在25到85 Msol之间的原始恒星预计会以直接黑洞的形式结束,爆炸能量太弱,无法完全消除整个包层。我们表明,当旋转进入发挥作用,一些质量损失,因为恒星很容易达到临界速度在主序星演化。与金属丰度非常低但非零的恒星不同,旋转混合对包层的富集作用非常小,总质量损失也很小。原始恒星的致密性导致恒星内部的角动量传输效率非常低,因此ω(r)的分布接近于ω r^2 = const。随着核心收缩,旋转速率增加,恒星以快速旋转的核心结束其生命。这种配置已被证明可以大大改变爆炸的动力学。在人们认为爆炸很弱或根本没有爆炸的地方,旋转可能会增加爆炸能量,并驱动一颗强大的超新星。这将对原始恒星丰富早期宇宙的方式产生重要影响。

英文摘要:

Metal-free stars are assumed to evolve at constant mass because of the very low stellar winds. This leads to large CO-core mass at the end of the evolution, so primordial stars with an initial mass between 25 and 85 Msol are expected to end as direct black holes, the explosion energy being too weak to remove the full envelope. We show that when rotation enters into play, some mass is lost because the stars are prone to reach the critical velocity during the main sequence evolution. Contrarily to what happens in the case of very low- but non zero-metallicity stars, the enrichment of the envelope by rotational mixing is very small and the total mass lost remains modest. The compactness of the primordial stars lead to a very inefficient transport of the angular momentum inside the star, so the profile of Omega(r) is close to Omega r^2 = const. As the core contracts, the rotation rate increases, and the star ends its life with a fast spinning core. Such a configuration has been shown to modify substantially the dynamics of the explosion. Where one expected a weak explosion or none at all, rotation might boost the explosion energy and drive a robust supernova. This will have important consequences in the way primordial stars enriched the early Universe.

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