The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 329, 2016 J.J. Eldridge, J.C. Bray, L.A.S. McClelland c International Astronomical Union 2017 & L. Xiao, eds. doi:10.1017/S1743921317003015 Asymmetric Core-collapse of a Rapidly-rotating Massive Star Avishai Gilkis Department of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel email: [email protected] Abstract. I find high turbulent shearing in a neutron-rich accretion disk surrounding a proto- neutron star formed at the collapse of a rapidly-rotating MZAMS =54M star. These might be features of superluminous supernovae powered by jets and/or magnetar spin-down. Keywords. supernovae: general, stars: rotation A54M star is evolved up to point of core-collapse with the MESA code (Paxton et al. 2011), with and without the Spruit dyanmo (Spruit 2002). The dynamo couples the core and envelope, so the loss of mass and angular momentum in winds affects the core and slows it down. At the onset of core-collapse the stellar models are mapped into the hy- drodynamic solver FLASH (Fryxell et al. 2000), which includes core deleptonization and approximate neutrino transport (Couch & O’Connor 2014). The three-dimensional flow is followed for 225 ms after core bounce. The rotation profile at stellar death significantly influences the flow dynamics and results of the collapse (Fig. 1). These results are also relevant for stellar evolution with magnetic fields where core spin-up occurs due to binary interaction, possibly resulting in a bipolar outflow. 18 10 30 fast slow (x 1000) 25 17 10 20 ] 16 1 − 10 s [foe] 2 15 rot [cm 15 E j 10 10 14 10 innermost stable circular orbit 5 Spruit dynamo excluded with Spruit dynamo 0 0 5 10 15 20 0 50 100 150 200 M [M ] tpb [ms] Figure 1. Left: Specific angular momentum as function of mass coordinate at the transition from MESA to FLASH. When the Spruit dynamo is excluded, the specific angular momentum is comparable to that of the innermost stable circular orbit around a Schwarzschild black hole. Center: Rotational kinetic energy of the proto-neutron star as function of time from core bounce. Right: Two-dimensional slice of the three-dimensional flow of the collapsing fast rotator (y is the rotation axis) showing a disk of low electron fraction (Ye ) matter 200 ms after core bounce. References Couch, S. M. & O’Connor, E. P. 2014, ApJ, 785, 123 Fryxell, B., et al. 2000, ApJS, 131, 273 Paxton, B., et al. 2011, ApJS, 192, 3 Spruit, H. C. 2002, A&A, 381, 923 400 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.35.229, on 29 Sep 2021 at 23:55:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921317003015.