Simulating the jittering-jets explosion mechanism: Supernova remnant G11.2-0.3

TL;DR

This study uses hydrodynamic simulations of jets to model a supernova explosion, reproducing observed remnant features and supporting the jittering-jets explosion mechanism as the primary cause of core-collapse supernovae.

Contribution

The paper demonstrates that the jittering-jets explosion mechanism can reproduce specific morphological features of supernova remnant G11.2-0.3, supporting it as the main CCSN explosion process.

Findings

Simulated jets produce remnant morphology similar to G11.2-0.3

Jets form two opposite rings and a perpendicular bar

Supports JJEM as primary CCSN explosion mechanism

Abstract

We hydrodynamically simulate a core-collapse supernova (CCSN) explosion by launching three pairs of jets in the framework of the jittering-jets explosion mechanism (JJEM), and reproduce a morphology of two opposite circum-jet rings and a bar of dense gas perpendicular to the rings' axis, resembling these morphological features in the CCSN remnant SNR G11.2-0.3. The first pair of wide jets is very energetic; it triggers the explosion and inflates two bubbles that compress the material in an expanding shell. The bubbles also compress material in a plane perpendicular to the jet axis. The second pair of wide jets removes material from this plane, beside along a bar that is on an axis perpendicular to the two pairs' axes. The jets of the third pair, now of narrow jets, penetrate the expanding shell and compress material to their sides to form two opposite rings. These morphological features are qualitatively similar to those observed in the point-symmetric CCSNN remnant G11.2-0.3. As competing theoretical CCSN explosion mechanisms cannot explain point-symmetric CCSN remnants, our study provides support for the claim that the JJEM is the primary explosion mechanism of CCSNe.