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Phys. Rev. D 65, 061503(R) (2002) [5 pages]

Back reaction of Einstein’s gravitational waves as the origin of natal pulsar kicks

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Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, Miramare 34014, Trieste, Italy,
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Laboratório de Cosmologia e Física Experimental de Altas Energias, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, CEP 22290-180 Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil,
Centro Latinoamericano de Física (CLAF), Avenida Wenceslau Braz 173, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Received 30 August 2001; published 12 February 2002

At the early core bounce of a supernova collapse rapid convective overturn along with gradients in density and temperature in the neutrino-decoupling zone drives anisotropic neutrino flux. If then active-to-sterile (ντ̅ ,μ̅ νs) neutrino oscillations in the dense core take place, gravitational radiation should be emitted the entire oscillation length. Since the oscillation feeds mass energy up into (or drains it from) the new species, the large neutrino mass-squared difference (104 eV2Δm2≲108 eV2) implies that a huge amount of energy is released as gravity waves. This gravitational waves luminosity is larger than the one from either neutrino convection and cooling or perturbed matter distributions. I identify the back-reaction force (mass and current multipoles) of the gravitational wave burst generated over the oscillation time scale as the pulsar thruster.

© 2002 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.65.061503
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.65.061503
PACS:
04.30.Db, 04.25.Nx, 14.60.Pq, 97.60.Gb