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核塌缩超新星磁旋转不稳定性的半全球模拟

Semi-global simulations of the magneto-rotational instability in core collapse supernovae

M. Obergaulinger, P. Cerdà-Duràn, E. Müller, M. A. Aloy

摘要:

核心坍缩超新星中磁场的可能效应依赖于坍缩前弱磁场的有效放大。磁旋转不稳定性(MRI)导致磁场快速增长。虽然磁共振成像研究存在的吸积盘,其结果的应用到核心坍缩超新星是抑制,因为超新星核心的物理是从吸积盘有很大的不同。我们解决的问题的增长和饱和的MRI通过半全球的模拟,它结合了全球和本地的模拟元素,考虑到全球背景梯度的存在,并使用本地的计算网格。我们分析的分散关系的MRI,以确定不同的制度的不稳定性。这种分析是补充模拟,在那里我们考虑一个本地的计算框子开普勒速度旋转,并允许径向熵梯度。我们确定了六个制度的MRI的熵和角速度梯度的比率。我们的数值模型证实了所有相关制度的不稳定性标准和增长率。MRI在毫秒内呈指数增长,流动和磁场几何形状由通道流动主导。一旦通道被电阻不稳定性破坏(由于有限的数值电导率),MRI生长停止,并且MHD湍流开始。从电阻不稳定性的增长率的分析,我们推导出的MRI的终止振幅与我们的数值模型一致的标度律。我们确定的相干流结构在饱和状态下的模拟箱的纵横比的发展的依赖性。[删节]

英文摘要:

Possible effects of magnetic fields in core collapse supernovae rely on an efficient amplification of the weak pre-collapse fields. It has been suggested that the magneto-rotational instability (MRI) leads to rapid field growth. Although MRI studies exist for accretion discs, the application of their results to core collapse supernovae is inhibited as the physics of supernova cores is substantially different from that of accretion discs. We address the problem of growth and saturation of the MRI by means of semi-global simulations, which combine elements of global and local simulations by taking the presence of global background gradients into account and using a local computational grid. We analyze the dispersion relation of the MRI to identify different regimes of the instability. This analysis is complemented by simulations, where we consider a local computational box rotating at sub-Keplerian velocity, and where we allow for a radial entropy gradient. We identify six regimes of the MRI depending on the ratio of the entropy and angular velocity gradient. Our numerical models confirm the instability criteria and growth rates for all relevant regimes. The MRI grows exponentially within milliseconds the flow and magnetic field geometries being dominated by channel flows. The MRI growth ceases once the channels are disrupted by resistive instabilities (due to finite numerical conductivity), and MHD turbulence sets in. From an analysis of the growth rates of the resistive instabilities, we deduce scaling laws for the termination amplitude of the MRI which agree well with our numerical models. We determine the dependence of the development of coherent flow structures in the saturated state on the aspect ratio of the simulation boxes. [abridged]

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