Bound Debris Expulsion from Neutron Star Merger Remnants
Abstract
Many studies have found that neutron star mergers leave a fraction of the stars' mass in bound orbits surrounding the resulting massive neutron star or black hole. This mass is a site of process nucleosynthesis and can generate a wind that contributes to a kilonova. However, comparatively little is known about the dynamics determining its mass or initial structure. Here we begin to investigate these questions, starting with the origin of the disk mass. Using tracer particle as well as discretized fluid data from numerical simulations, we identify where in the neutron stars the debris came from, the paths it takes in order to escape from the neutron stars' interiors, and the times and locations at which its orbital properties diverge from those of neighboring fluid elements that end up remaining in the merged neutron star.
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@article{arxiv.2306.09464,
title = {Bound Debris Expulsion from Neutron Star Merger Remnants},
author = {Yossef Zenati and Julian H. Krolik and Leonardo R. Werneck and Ariadna Murguia-Berthier and Zachariah B. Etienne and Scott C. Noble and Tsvi Piran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.09464},
year = {2023}
}
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