Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 696, Issue 1, Pages 608-619Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/608
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neutrinos; stars: evolution; stars: interiors; supergiants
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC52-06NA25396, DE-FG02-87ER40328]
- DOE [DOE-FC02-01ER41176, DOE-FC02-06ER41438]
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We explore the sensitivity of massive stars to neutrino magnetic moments. We find that the additional cooling due to the neutrino magnetic moments brings about qualitative changes to the structure and evolution of stars in the mass window 7 M-circle dot less than or similar to M less than or similar to 18 M-circle dot, rather than simply changing the timescales for the burning. We describe some of the consequences of this modified evolution: the shifts in the threshold masses for creating core-collapse supernovae and oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarfs and the appearance of a new type of supernova in which a partial carbon-oxygen core explodes within a massive star. The resulting sensitivity to the magnetic moment is at the level of (2-4) x 10(-11) mu(B).
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