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Favorable conditions for heavy element nucleosynthesis in rotating proto-magnetar winds

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arxiv 2402.06003 v2 pith:ABBAXWOT submitted 2024-02-08 astro-ph.HE

Favorable conditions for heavy element nucleosynthesis in rotating proto-magnetar winds

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The neutrino-driven wind cooling phase of proto-neutron stars (PNSs) follows successful supernovae. Wind models without magnetic fields or rotation fail to achieve the necessary conditions for production of the third $r-$process peak, but robustly produce a weak $r-$process in neutron-rich winds. Using 2D magnetohydrodynamic simulations with magnetar-strength magnetic fields and rotation, we show that the PNS rotation rate significantly affects the thermodynamic conditions of the wind. We show that high entropy material is quasi-periodically ejected from the closed zone of the PNS magnetosphere with the required thermodynamic conditions to produce heavy elements. We show that maximum entropy $S$ of the material ejected depends systematically on the magnetar spin period $P_{\star}$ and scales as $S \propto P_{\star}^{-5/6}$ for sufficiently rapid rotation. We present results from simulations at a constant neutrino luminosity representative of $\sim 1-2$ s after the onset of cooling for $P_{\star}$ ranging from 5 ms to 200 ms and a few simulations with evolving neutrino luminosity where we follow the evolution of the magnetar wind until $10-14$ s after the onset of cooling. We estimate at magnetar polar magnetic field strength $B_0=3\times 10^{15}$ G and $10^{15}$ G that neutron-rich magnetar winds can respectively produce at least $\sim 1-5\times 10^{-5}$ M$_{\odot}$ and $\sim 1-4\times 10^{-7}$ M$_{\odot}$ of material with the required parameters for synthesis of the third $r-$process peak, within $1-2$ s and 10 s respectively in that order after the onset of cooling. We show that proton-rich magnetar winds can have favorable conditions for production of $p-$nuclei, even at a modest $B_0=5\times 10^{14}$ G.

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