Published March 15, 2026 | Version Published
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Rotational effects on neutrino emission in core-collapse supernovae

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon Stockholm University

Abstract

All stars rotate. While magnetic braking slows massive stars, the effect a stellar companion has on stellar rotation is still being explored. To prepare for future observations from rotating core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), we analyze a set of 30 2D neutrino-radiation hydrodynamic CCSN simulations for a variety of compactness values, rotation rates, and equations of state. We systematically explore how rotation lowers expected neutrino counts and energies for a realistic detector, while accounting for adiabatic Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein matter effects. We quantify the effect of viewing angle for neutrino emission for multiple rotation rates. Using “multimessenger synthesis,” we develop a technique that correlates multimessengers to constrain the neutrino mass ordering for a future supernova event. Likewise, we develop a method to constrain the distance to a rotating or nonrotating CCSN, regardless of explosion outcome.

Copyright and License

© 2026 American Physical Society.

Acknowledgement

We thank Sean Couch, Hiroki Nagaura, Evan O’Connor, Mark Scheel, David Vartanyan, and Michele Zanolin for helpful discussions. Analysis for this work was completed with matplotlib [86], numpy [87], and scipy [88]. M. A. P. was supported by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, NSF Grants No. PHY-2309211, No. PHY-2309231, and No. OAC-2209656 at Caltech. S. B. was supported through Caltech’s LIGO SURF program. We thank ECT* for support at MICRA2023: Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics, during which this work was developed.

Data Availability

The data that support the findings of this article are openly available: M. Pajkos, Axisymmetric core-collapse supernova multimessenger data (2025), 10.5281/zenodo.16938126.

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Funding

Sherman Fairchild Foundation
National Science Foundation
PHY-2309211
National Science Foundation
PHY-2309231
National Science Foundation
OAC-2209656
California Institute of Technology

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