Pair-instability mass loss for top-down compact object mass calculations

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العنوان: Pair-instability mass loss for top-down compact object mass calculations
المؤلفون: Renzo, M., Hendriks, D. D., van Son, L. A. C., Farmer, R.
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
الوصف: Population synthesis relies on semi-analytic formulae to determine masses of compact objects from the (helium or carbon-oxygen) cores of collapsing stars. Such formulae are combined across mass ranges that span different explosion mechanisms, potentially introducing artificial features in the compact object mass distribution. Such artifacts impair the interpretation of gravitational-wave observations. We propose a "top-down" remnant mass prescription where we remove mass from the star for each possible mass-loss mechanism, instead of relying on the fallback onto a "proto-compact-object" to get the final mass. For one of these mass-loss mechanisms, we fit the metallicity-dependent mass lost to pulsational-pair instability supernovae from numerical simulations. By imposing no mass loss in the absence of pulses, our approach recovers the existing compact object masses prescription at the low mass end and ensures continuity across the core-collapse/pulsational-pair-instability regime. Our remnant mass prescription can be extended to include other mass-loss mechanisms at the final collapse.
Comment: to appear in RNAAS, made with showyourwork, code available at https://github.com/mathren/top_down_compact_obj_mass
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10519
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2201.10519
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv