Gray Two-moment Neutrino Transport: Comprehensive Tests and Improvements for Supernova Simulations

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Main Authors: Andresen, Haakon, O'Connor, Evan P., Andersen, Oliver Eggenberger, Couch, Sean M.
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Published: 2024
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author Andresen, Haakon
O'Connor, Evan P.
Andersen, Oliver Eggenberger
Couch, Sean M.
author_facet Andresen, Haakon
O'Connor, Evan P.
Andersen, Oliver Eggenberger
Couch, Sean M.
contents In this work we extended an energy-integrated neutrino transport method to facilitate efficient, yet precise, modeling of compact astrophysical objects. We particularly focus on core-collapse supernovae. We implemented a gray neutrino-transport framework from the literature into FLASH and performed a detailed evaluation of its accuracy in core-collapse supernova simulations. Based on comparisons with results from simulations using energy-dependent neutrino transport, we incorporated several improvements to the original scheme. Our analysis shows that our gray neutrino transport method successfully reproduces key aspects from more complex energy-dependent transport across a variety of progenitors and equations of state. We find both qualitative and reasonable quantitative agreement with multi-group M1 transport simulations. However, the gray scheme tends to slightly favor shock revival. In terms of gravitational wave and neutrino signals, there is a good alignment with the energy-dependent transport, although we find 15-30% discrepancies in the average energy and luminosity of heavy-lepton neutrinos. Simulations using the gray transport are around four times faster than those using energy-dependent transport.
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spellingShingle Gray Two-moment Neutrino Transport: Comprehensive Tests and Improvements for Supernova Simulations
Andresen, Haakon
O'Connor, Evan P.
Andersen, Oliver Eggenberger
Couch, Sean M.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
In this work we extended an energy-integrated neutrino transport method to facilitate efficient, yet precise, modeling of compact astrophysical objects. We particularly focus on core-collapse supernovae. We implemented a gray neutrino-transport framework from the literature into FLASH and performed a detailed evaluation of its accuracy in core-collapse supernova simulations. Based on comparisons with results from simulations using energy-dependent neutrino transport, we incorporated several improvements to the original scheme. Our analysis shows that our gray neutrino transport method successfully reproduces key aspects from more complex energy-dependent transport across a variety of progenitors and equations of state. We find both qualitative and reasonable quantitative agreement with multi-group M1 transport simulations. However, the gray scheme tends to slightly favor shock revival. In terms of gravitational wave and neutrino signals, there is a good alignment with the energy-dependent transport, although we find 15-30% discrepancies in the average energy and luminosity of heavy-lepton neutrinos. Simulations using the gray transport are around four times faster than those using energy-dependent transport.
title Gray Two-moment Neutrino Transport: Comprehensive Tests and Improvements for Supernova Simulations
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18303