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Magnetized Neutron Stars With Realistic Equations of State and Neutrino Cooling

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-05-28 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We incorporate realistic, tabulated equations of state into fully relativistic simulations of magnetized neutron stars along with a neutrino leakage scheme which accounts for cooling via neutrino emission. Both these improvements utilize open-source code (GR1D) and tables from http://stellarcollapse.org. Our implementation makes use of a novel method for the calculation of the optical depth which simplifies its use with distributed adaptive mesh refinement. We present various tests with and without magnetization and preliminary results both from single stars and from the merger of a binary system.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3680,
  title  = {Magnetized Neutron Stars With Realistic Equations of State and Neutrino Cooling},
  author = {David Neilsen and Steven L. Liebling and Matthew Anderson and Luis Lehner and Evan O'Connor and Carlos Palenzuela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3680},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, 10 figures; Minor modifications consistent with version accepted by PRD