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Compact binaries such as double neutron stars or a neutron star paired with a black-hole, are strong sources of gravitational waves during coalescence and also the likely progenitors of various electromagnetic phenomena, notably…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-01 S. Mandhai , G. P. Lamb , N. R. Tanvir , J. Bray , C. J. Nixon , R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris , A. J. Levan , B. P. Gompertz

Context. The concomitant observation of gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in 2017 confirmed that these events can produce relativistic jets responsible for short Gamma-Ray Bursts (sGRBs).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-19 Emma Dreas , Andrea Pavan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Annalisa Celotti

Coalescing compact binaries with neutron star or black hole components provide the most promising sources of gravitational radiation for detection by the LIGO/VIRGO/GEO/TAMA laser interferometers now under construction. This fact has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Frederic A. Rasio , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a simple, semi--analytical description for the final stages of mergers of black hole (BH) -- neutron star (NS) systems. Such systems are of much interest as gravitational wave sources and gamma--ray burst progenitors. Numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Melvyn B. Davies , Andrew J. Levan , Andrew R. King

The detection of a binary neutron star merger in 2017 through both gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission opened a new era of multimessenger astronomy. The understanding of the magnetic field amplification triggered by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Daniele Viganò , Carlos Palenzuela

We investigate mass ejection from accretion disks formed in mergers of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). The third observing run of the LIGO/Virgo interferometers provided BH-NS candidate events that yielded no electromagnetic (EM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-30 Rodrigo Fernández , Francois Foucart , Jonas Lippuner

The binary-driven hypernova (BdHN) model proposes long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate in binaries composed of a carbon-oxygen (CO) star and a neutron star (NS) companion. The CO core collapse generates a newborn NS and a supernova that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-03 L. M. Becerra , F. Cipolletta , C. L. Fryer , Débora P. Menezes , Constança Providência , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

The recent localization of some short-hard gamma ray bursts (GRBs) in galaxies with low star formation rates has lent support to the suggestion that these events result from compact object binary mergers. We discuss how new simulations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joshua A. Faber , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro , Keisuke Taniguchi

In this study of the `Resolving supermAssive Black hole Binaries In galacTic hydrodynamical Simulations' (RABBITS) series, we focus on the hardening and coalescing process of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in galaxy mergers. For…

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are the leading model to explain the phenomenology of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), which are among the most luminous explosions in the universe. Recent observations of long-lasting X-ray afterglows of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star - neutron star (NS-NS) merger, GW170817, and the increasing number of observations of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) have greatly motivated studies of the origins of NS-NS and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 Claire S. Ye , Wen-fai Fong , Kyle Kremer , Carl L. Rodriguez , Sourav Chatterjee , Giacomo Fragione , Frederic A. Rasio

We present a systematic study of magnetised neutron star head on collisions. We investigate the resulting magnetic field geometries as the two neutron stars merge. Furthermore, we analyze the luminosity produced in these collisions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Antonios Nathanail

We present 3D general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations of two asymmetric binary neutron star mergers producing long-lived neutron stars remnants and spanning a fraction of their cooling time scale. The mergers are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Fabio Magistrelli , Maximilian Jacobi , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego , David Radice

We perform a comparative analysis of nucleosynthesis yields from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, black hole-neutron star (BHNS) mergers, and core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) with the goal of determining which are the most dominant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Nick Ekanger , Mukul Bhattacharya , Shunsaku Horiuchi

We find the distribution of coalescence times, birthrates, spatial velocities, and subsequent radial offsets of coalescing neutron stars (NSs) in various galactic potentials accounting for large asymmetric kicks introduced during a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Joshua S. Bloom , Steinn Sigurdsson , Onno R. Pols

By performing general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations with an approximate neutrino-radiation transfer, the properties of ejecta in dynamical and post-merger phases are investigated for the cases in which the remnant massive neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Sho Fujibayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Shinya Wanajo , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

The main features of the gravitational dynamics of binary neutron star systems are now well established. While the inspiral can be precisely described in the post-Newtonian approximation, fully relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 Matteo Lucca , Laura Sagunski , Federico Guercilena , Christian M. Fromm

We study equal and unequal-mass neutron star mergers by means of new numerical relativity simulations in which the general relativistic hydrodynamics solver employs an algorithm that guarantees mass conservation across the refinement levels…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximiliano Ujevic , Bernd Bruegmann

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors are expected to detect millions of compact binary mergers across cosmological distances. The features of the mass distribution of these mergers, combined with gravitational wave distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Soumendra Kishore Roy , Lieke A. C. van Son , Anarya Ray , Will M. Farr

Using our new Post-Newtonian SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) code, we study the final coalescence and merging of neutron star (NS) binaries. We vary the stiffness of the equation of state (EOS) as well as the initial binary mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio , Justin B. Manor