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Rotation alone barely changes explosion energy, blast shape, or yields for a low-mass supernova that explodes early.

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load-bearing objection Solid, carefully scoped Fornax continuum: pure rotation is muted for this early-exploding 9 M☉ model except at the fastest spin, where T/|W| spirals and spin-kick alignment appear. the 2 major comments →

arxiv 2607.06664 v1 pith:EBHYKVB7 submitted 2026-07-07 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.SR

Effects of Rotation on 3D Core-Collapse Supernova Models for Low-Mass Progenitors

classification astro-ph.HE astro-ph.SR
keywords core-collapse supernovaerotation3D simulationsexplosion energyspin-kick alignmentT/|W| instabilitygravitational wavesnucleosynthesis
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper runs a controlled suite of three-dimensional core-collapse simulations of a single 9-solar-mass star, varying only the initial core spin from zero to rapid rates while deliberately omitting magnetic fields. The authors show that explosion energy, shock asymmetry, neutrino heating, residual neutron-star mass, and nucleosynthetic yields all change only modestly across that range; the dependence is non-monotonic and never large. Only the fastest rotator produces clear spin-kick alignment, low-T/|W| spiral-arm modes, and a distinctly stronger gravitational-wave signal. Because collapse amplifies the core period by a factor of roughly four thousand, the modest observed birth periods of radio pulsars imply that most progenitor cores were already spinning slowly. The result matters because it isolates pure hydrodynamic rotation from the more dramatic magnetorotational effects that dominate the literature, and it suggests that for the common class of early-exploding low-mass progenitors rotation can be treated as a secondary correction.

Core claim

For a low-mass, low-compactness progenitor that explodes early, the effects of pure rotation on explosion energy, blast asymmetries, neutrino heating, nucleosynthetic yields, and residual neutron-star mass remain small and non-monotonic across two orders of magnitude in initial spin; only the most rapid rotator develops T/|W| ~ 0.05 corotation instabilities, spiral arms, spin-kick alignment, and elevated gravitational-wave emission.

What carries the argument

A controlled sequence of long-term 3D multi-group radiation-hydrodynamics runs of the same 9-solar-mass progenitor, differing only in the Eriguchi-Müller cylindrical rotation profile (Ω₀ = 0, 0.01, 0.1, 1.0 rad s⁻¹), carried to saturation so that asymptotic observables can be compared directly.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that rotation is muted for most supernova cores rests on a single early-exploding low-mass progenitor and on the deliberate exclusion of magnetic fields.

What would settle it

Repeat the same rotation sequence for a higher-compactness progenitor that explodes later; if that model shows large monotonic changes in explosion energy or strong spin-kick alignment already at moderate spins, the generalization fails.

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If this is right

  • For low-mass early-exploding progenitors, pure rotation can be treated as a small correction to non-rotating models when predicting energy, yields, and residual mass.
  • Observed radio-pulsar birth periods of hundreds of milliseconds imply typical pre-collapse core periods of minutes rather than seconds.
  • Clear spin-kick alignment and strong low-T/|W| spiral modes appear only above a high spin threshold, so most ordinary pulsars need not show them.
  • Gravitational-wave signals from ordinary core-collapse events should lack the cascade of discrete T/|W| bands seen only in the fastest rotator.
  • Nucleosynthetic differences driven by rotation alone are smaller than those already produced by modest convective seed perturbations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Magnetized versions of the same rapid rotator would likely convert the modest rotational reservoir into jet-like morphology and higher energy, recovering the classic magnetorotational channel.
  • If more massive or binary-stripped progenitors retain higher core spins, the spin-kick correlation observed in some pulsars may be explained without invoking post-explosion mechanisms.
  • The factor-of-4000 spin-up sets a quantitative target for asteroseismic and white-dwarf spin measurements that can be checked against the same angular-momentum-transport physics.
  • A denser grid of intermediate spins would locate the sharp threshold between random and aligned kicks, testing whether alignment is a continuous or threshold phenomenon.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

2 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper presents four long-term 3D multi-group radiation-hydrodynamics simulations (Fornax, SFHo EOS, 12 energy groups) of the Sukhbold et al. (2016) 9-M⊙ progenitor, varying only the initial central angular frequency Ω0 = 0, 0.01, 0.1, and 1.0 rad s−1 under the Eriguchi & Müller cylindrical rotation law (A = 1000 km) and deliberately omitting magnetic fields. The runs are carried to asymptotic saturation of explosion energy, residual mass, kicks, nucleosynthesis, and gravitational-wave emission. The central claim is that, for this early-exploding low-mass model, rotation alone produces only weak, non-monotonic changes (≲20 %) in explosion energy, modest increases in blast asymmetry, negligible pole–equator heating anisotropy during the launch phase, and little change in yields; only the fastest rotator develops a T/|W| ≈ 0.05 corotation instability with spiral arms, stronger GW emission, and clear spin–kick alignment, while the initial-to-final core spin-period ratio is measured to be ∼4000.

Significance. If the reported trends hold, the work supplies a clean, systematically varied benchmark isolating pure hydrodynamic rotational effects for an early-exploding progenitor. The long-term (≳2 s) multi-messenger diagnostics—explosion energy, residual mass, recoil kicks, Ye–entropy distributions, production factors, and both matter and neutrino GW spectrograms—are valuable for the community. The clear detection of low-T/|W| spiral modes and the measured spin amplification factor ∼4000 are concrete, falsifiable results that constrain progenitor spin models and GW templates. The careful scoping to one low-compactness progenitor and the explicit omission of magnetic fields are strengths of scientific honesty rather than weaknesses.

major comments (2)
  1. [Table 1, §3] Table 1 and §3: the final spin periods (and therefore the quoted initial-to-final ratio ∼4000) are obtained from L/I_NS with the spherical Breu & Rezzolla (2016) formula and a fixed R_NS = 12 km. For the Ω0 = 1 model (T/|W| ≈ 0.0475 at 2 s) the spherical approximation underestimates the true moment of inertia; a short quantification of the resulting period error (or a non-spherical I estimate) is needed before the ratio is used to infer that “most supernova cores” are born slowly rotating.
  2. [§2, §9] §2 and §9: the Eriguchi & Müller cylindrical law with fixed scale A = 1000 km is adopted without a sensitivity test. Because the paper’s strongest claim is that rotation effects remain muted “across a wide range of initial spins,” at least a brief discussion (or one additional run) of how changing A by a factor of a few alters the early gain-region centrifugal support and the final T/|W| would strengthen the robustness of that claim.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3: “a T/|W| corotation instabilities” is grammatically incorrect; change to “a T/|W| corotation instability” or “T/|W| corotation instabilities.”
  2. [Figure 1, §3, §8] Figure 1 caption and several places in the text use inconsistent spacing (“T /|W|”, “T/|W|”); standardize to T/|W|.
  3. [§1] §1: “motive this work” should be “motivate this work.”
  4. [Figure 9, §4] Figure 9 and text: model labels occasionally appear as “9-rot0.0” or “9-rot0.1” without the hyphen; keep the consistent “9-rot-0.0” form used in Table 1.
  5. [§8] §8: the statement that the hydro dump cadence is 1000 Hz (Nyquist-limited to 500 Hz) while GW data are written at 25–50 kHz is useful; a single sentence noting that a higher hydro cadence will be required for a full modal decomposition of the spiral arms would help the reader.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: observables are direct numerical outputs of independent 3D Fornax runs, not rearrangements of fitted inputs or self-citation chains.

full rationale

This is a standard computational survey. Four 3D radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of the Sukhbold et al. (2016) 9-M⊙ progenitor are evolved with prescribed initial cylindrical rotation profiles (Eriguchi & Müller 1985 form, A=1000 km, Ω0 = 0, 0.01, 0.1, 1.0 rad s−1). Explosion energy, shock multipoles, neutrino luminosities/heating rates, recoil kicks, PNS convection, nucleosynthetic yields, and GW strains are extracted by post-processing the time-dependent fields (Table 1, Figs. 1–26). The reported initial-to-final spin-period ratio ∼4000 is simply the ratio of the input central period to the final L/I (I from the external Breu & Rezzolla 2016 formula). Self-citations supply the Fornax code description, prior non-rotating 9a/9b comparison runs, and methodological context; none of them is used as a uniqueness theorem or as the sole warrant for the rotation-dependence claims. No parameter is fitted to a subset of the present data and then re-labeled a prediction, and no algebraic identity equates an output to an input by construction. The paper’s own caveats (single low-mass progenitor, no magnetic fields) are scope limitations, not circularities. Score 0 is therefore required.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 5 axioms · 0 invented entities

The work is a parameter study of initial rotation in an established CCSN code. Load-bearing inputs are the progenitor, the ad-hoc rotation law and rates, the nuclear EOS, neutrino transport discretization, and the deliberate neglect of magnetic fields. No new physical entities are postulated; free parameters are numerical/setup choices that define the experiment rather than fitted constants that force the conclusion.

free parameters (4)
  • Initial angular frequencies Ω0 = 0, 0.01, 0.1, 1.0 rad s−1
    Hand-chosen continuum 0, 0.01, 0.1, 1.0 rad s−1 to span slow to rapid spin; not fitted to data but defines the study axes.
  • Cylindrical rotation scale A = 1000 km
    Fixed at 1000 km in the Eriguchi & Müller law; standard but arbitrary profile choice that sets differential rotation.
  • Spatial grid and neutrino groups = 1024×128×256; 12 groups
    1024×128×256 (r,θ,φ) and 12 energy groups per species; resolution and group structure affect numerics but are not data-fitted.
  • Cold NS radius in I_NS formula = 12 km
    R_NS set to 12 km when converting final angular momentum to period (Table 1); affects reported final periods especially for rapid rotators.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption SFHo nuclear equation of state adequately describes the PNS and shock thermodynamics for this study.
    Stated in §2; EOS choice affects compactness, neutrino emission, and T/|W|.
  • domain assumption Magnetic fields can be omitted when isolating pure rotational hydro/radiation effects.
    Explicit scope in abstract and §1–§2; authors note B-fields may matter for rapid rotators.
  • domain assumption Sukhbold et al. (2016) 9-M⊙ solar-metallicity progenitor structure at collapse is representative of low-mass early-exploding CCSNe.
    Single-progenitor choice in §2; compactness ξ_1.75=6.7e-5 used to justify early asymptote.
  • ad hoc to paper Eriguchi & Müller (1985) cylindrical rotation law is an acceptable proxy for unknown true core spin profiles.
    §2 acknowledges true profiles are unavailable and recipes are criticized; parametrization is conventional but not derived from this star.
  • domain assumption Multi-group neutrino transport and gravity treatment in Fornax are sufficient for asymptotic explosion energy, kicks, and yields.
    Method section and prior Fornax literature; community standard but not converged physics.

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We explore the dependence upon rotation rate alone of various supernova observables simulated to their saturation for the explosion of a 9-$M_{\odot}$ progenitor. We find that the explosion energy is non-monotonic with, and weakly dependent upon, spin across a broad range of initial spins. The asymmetries of the blast depend weakly on spin, with faster spins leading to only slightly greater asymmetries. There is little significant pole-equator neutrino heating asymmetry during explosion, even for rapid rotation, and only for the fastest rotator does the neutrino heating rate diminish noticeably. Hence, the effects of rotation alone on all salient aspects of supernova dynamics are not large. We find that the recoil kick and spin are clearly aligned only for the most rapidly rotating model. Interestingly, for the fastest rotator, we witness a $T/|W|$ corotation instabilities near a value of 0.05 and spiral arm modes emerge. We find that the nucleosynthetic yields depend little upon the rotation rate and determine that the ratio of initial to final core spin period is near $\sim$4000, implying, given the modest inferred radio pulsar periods at birth, that the initial spin periods of most supernova cores are likely quite long. However, we focus on only one progenitor and do not include magnetic fields. Nevertheless, at least for low-mass progenitors which explode early, we find muted consequences of rotation in most major particulars across a wide range of initial spins.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.06664 by Adam Burrows, David Vartanyan, Tianshu Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Maximum shock radius (left) and normalized spherical harmonic decomposition of the shock radius (right). The decomposition is done using al = qPm=l m=−l | R f(θ, ϕ)Ylm(θ, ϕ)dΩ| 2/(4π(2l + 1)). We note that the mean shock radius and the time of explosion are weak functions of initial spin rate. It is only at and faster than Ω0 ≈ 0.1 rad s−1 that we see the shock radius peel off from the other models, and th… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Proto-neutron star baryon mass and gravitational mass (left) and PNS radius (right, defined as the mean radius at which the mass density is 1011 g cm −3 ). Note that the evolution of the gravitational mass tracks the integrated neutrino energy losses. By the end of the simulations ∼0.04 M⊙c 2 has radiated. Note also that the final baryon mass of the residues changes little after ∼0.5 seconds post-bounce, d… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Cutaway slices depicting electron fraction (Ye; blue low and red higher) on the surfaces, with an inner embedded isodensity surface (at 109.5 g cm−3 , colored by Ye), for the non-rotating and most rapidly rotating (9-rot-1.0) models at 100 (left) and ∼200 milliseconds (right) after bounce. On the left plots, the darker regions depict those in which there has been significant electron capture behind the sho… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Nested isodensity spheres (at 109.5 and 1011 g cm−3 ), colored by Ye, bounding the inner protoneutron star convective region indicated by particle trajectories, for the non-rotating (left) and Ω0 = 1.0 radian per second (right) models. Noted that rotation for the initially rotating model clearly dominates the motion of its inner core and that its isosurfaces are at larger radii. Chaotic convective motion i… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Entropy slices in the x-z plane of all models at 0.4 seconds post-bounce. The Ω0 = 0.0 and 0.01 rad s−1 models show more spherical explosions, while modest pole-equator structures develop in the faster rotating 9-rot-1.0 model. This behavior is consistent with the shock radius decomposition shown in the right panel of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Density (top) and electron fraction (bottom) profiles at 500, 1000, and 1500 ms post-bounce along polar (left) and equatorial (right) directions. Compactification with time is manifest for all models. It is only the fastest rotating model (red) that clearly deviates from the others. One sees the same trend on the bottom plots, with the polar profiles of the 9-rot-1.0 model deviating most. These plots again… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Specific angular momentum flux in the y-x (left) and z-x (right) planes at 0.5 (top) and 2 (bottom) seconds post￾bounce for the 9-rot-1.0 model. Within ∼300 ms of bounce, the core that is shrinking quasi-statically due to neutrino losses during its Kelvin-Helmholtz cooling phase and correspondingly spinning up seems to hit various co-rotation resonances. This is more clearly seen in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figur… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Angle-integrated neutrino energy luminosity (left, in Bethes per second) and average energy (right, in MeV) for the various neutrino species in the laboratory frame at 10000 km. One Bethe ≡ 1051 ergs. The dotted lines are for the νµ, ντ , ¯νµ, and ¯ντ neutrinos collectively. The 9-rot-1.0 model is the only one that deviates much from the others, with its luminosities and mean neutrino energies slightly low… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Net heating rate in the gain region in Bethes per second as a function of time (in seconds) for all new models of this paper. Centrifugal support for model 9-rot-1.0 lowers its mean neutrino energies and luminosities in the gain region behind the shock during the first ∼200 milliseconds after bounce to a significant degree. See text for a discussion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Explosion energy (in Bethes, B) versus time after bounce (in seconds) for all four models of this study. The blue curve depicts the baseline behavior of the initially non-rotating model. The behavior is not monotonic, with the 9-rot-0.1 and 9-rot-1.0 models separating slightly from the others. The magnitude of the increase in energy of the former vis `a vis the latter is as much as ∼20%. Note that the ove… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Specific net heating rate in the x-z plane at 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, and 2.0 seconds post-bounce of the 9-rot-0.0 model. Despite transient variations with angle of the energy deposition rate in the turbulent heating rate exterior to the inner PNS, there is no pole-equator dichotomy [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Specific net heating rate in the x-z plane at 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, and 2.0 seconds post-bounce of the 9-rot-1.0 model. Unlike for model 9-rot-0.0 depicted in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Total (left) and neutrino (right) recoil kicks in km s−1 versus time after bounce (in seconds). We see a non￾monotonic dependence upon initial spin rate, with the intermediate spin rates manifesting the lowest overall kicks. However, we are not confident this is not a result of the real physical chaos in the flow and would counsel caution in deriving any permanent conclusions from the trends we see. Never… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: The angle-integrated convective luminosity profile in the protoneutron star versus time after bounce in seconds. The red regions depict where lepton-driven convection in the core is found. It begins in a shell, whose inner boundary slowly moves inward until it reaches the center. For all but the fastest rotator, this occurs near ∼1.7 seconds of bounce. However, for the most rapidly rotating model, it take… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Radial Mach number in the x-z plane at ∼0.5 and ∼1.5 seconds post-bounce of the 9-rot-0.0 (top) and 9-rot-1.0 (bottom) models. From the radial dominance (even at late times) and roughly alternating sign of the mean convective velocity, the convective zone in the initially non-rotating model is seen to maintain its shellular structure. However, at later times for the fast rotating model there appears a sli… view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Final ejecta Ye distributions for all four 9.0-M⊙ models simulated for this paper, along with those for the 9a and 9b models from Burrows et al. (2024a), Wang & Burrows (2024b), and Wang & Burrows (2024a). The latter differ only in the fact that the 9a model accreted an envelope perturbed due to artificial turbulence and that the infall stage before bounce was done in 1D, mapping to 3D 10 milliseconds aft… view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Ejecta Ye and entropy distribution for all models. The two 9 M⊙ models published before, 9a and 9b (with/without initial perturbation), are plotted for comparison. With increasing initial spin rate, the ejecta become more and more neutron￾rich, which is consistent with the trend in explosion time − more rapid explosions lead to more neutron-rich ejecta. The behaviors of all the new models of this work lie… view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Nucleosynthetic yields (left) and production factors (right) of all six of our 9.0-M⊙models. The two 9 M⊙ models published before, 9a and 9b (with/without initial perturbation), are plotted for comparison. As discussed in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_19.png] view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Matter GW strain (cm) versus time after bounce (in seconds) for the sequence of rotating models. See the text for details and a discussion. 0.010 0.005 0.000 0.005 0.010 0.015 0.020 0.025 0.030 40 20 0 20 40 Solid: Equator Dashed: Pole h + h × Solid: Equator Dashed: Pole h + h × Solid: Equator Dashed: Pole h + h × Solid: Equator Dashed: Pole h + h × 0 = 0.0 rad s 1 0.010 0.005 0.000 0.005 0.010 0.015 0.02… view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: Matter GW strain (cm) versus time after bounce (in seconds) for the sequence of rotating models in the first 30 ms after core bounce for both polarizations and along the pole (dashed) and equator (solid). The bounce signature for the 9-M⊙ model is only weakly sensitive to the initial rotation frequency. See text for a discussion [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_21.png] view at source ↗
Figure 22
Figure 22. Figure 22: Matter (left) and neutrino memory (right) total GW energy emitted versus time after bounce. We see a quasi￾monotonic increase in the asymptotic gravitational wave energy with increasing rotation for both the matter and neutrino GW contributions, with the exception that the non-rotating model has a stronger signal than that of the weakly rotating model with Ω0=0.01 rad s−1 . We see that the GW energy of th… view at source ↗
Figure 23
Figure 23. Figure 23: Matter-driven gravitational wave strain spectrogram plotted against time after bounce (in seconds). We see prominent prompt convection and/or rotational bounce signatures for all models in the very early phase, followed by weak early g/f-mode signals, slightly suppressed for the rapid-rotating model. The overall weakness of the these early signals is consistent with the low “compactness” of this low-mass … view at source ↗
Figure 24
Figure 24. Figure 24: Matter-driven gravitational wave energy spectrograph. All models except the rapid-rotating model show a power gap near 1000 Hz. The 9-M⊙ model rotating with an initial angular frequency of 0.1 rad s−1 shows a stronger ‘fan’ of GW radiation powered by accretion in the first second (extending to ∼3200 Hz), compared to the most rapid rotating model which has a shorter-lasting ‘fan’ and at lower frequencies (… view at source ↗
Figure 25
Figure 25. Figure 25: Neutrino-driven GW strain versus time after bounce (in seconds) (left: h+; right: h×) comparing the pole (dashed) versus equator (solid) emission along the positive x-axis. Only for the rapidly-rotating 9-rot-1.0 model do we see a significant pole/equator strain asymmetry visible in the plus-polarization, which has strains more than ∼20 times stronger than the cross-polarization at late times and ∼100 tim… view at source ↗
Figure 26
Figure 26. Figure 26: Top left: Matter-driven GW spectra as viewed along the pole (dashed, low opacity) and equator (solid) on the positive x-axis plotted against frequency [Hz], extending to 10 kHz. Top right: Likewise, but for the neutrino memory (extending to 500 Hz, limited by our neutrino data write cadence). Only for the rapidly rotating model do we see a significant pole/equatorial asymmetry, with the equatorial emissio… view at source ↗

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