Effect of the Nuclear Equation of State and Relativistic Turbulence on Core-Collapse Supernovae

Abstract

The nuclear Equation of State (EoS) is an important component in the evolution and subsequent explosion of core collapse supernovae. We make a survey of various equations of state that can be found in the literature and analyze their effect on the explosion. To simulate the supernovae, we use the general relativistic spherically-symmetric code GR1D, modified to take into account the effects of three-dimensional turbulence through a new mixing length theory approach (STIR). We show that the viability of the explosion is quite EoS dependent and that the strength of explosions correlate best with the central entropy density right after bounce and the onset of turbulent mixing in the proto-neutron star.