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We examine a potential role of the neutrino deuteron reactions in the mechanism of supernova explosion by evaluating the energy transfer cross section for the neutrino heating. We calculate the energy loss rate due to the neutrino…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 S. X. Nakamura , K. Sumiyoshi , T. Sato

Merging of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) could take place within the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The resulting BH remnant is likely to accrete the disk gas at a super-Eddington rate, launching a fast,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Zhi-Peng Ma , Kai Wang

Ultraluminous X-ray pulsars (ULXPs) serve as unique astrophysical laboratories, offering critical insights into accretion physics under extreme conditions, such as strong magnetic fields and super-Eddington accretion rates. Additionally,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Hong-Bo Li , Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Ren-Xin Xu

Hypernebulae are inflated by accretion-powered winds accompanying hyper-Eddington mass transfer from an evolved post-main sequence star onto a black hole or neutron star companion. The ions accelerated at the termination shock -- where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-02 Navin Sridhar , Brian D. Metzger , Ke Fang

A self-consistent global fitting method based on the Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique to study the dark matter (DM) property associated with the cosmic ray electron/positron excesses was developed in our previous work. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-15 Jie Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiaojun Bi , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

We explore low angular momentum accretion flows onto black holes formed after the collapse of massive stellar cores. In particular, we consider the state of the gas falling quasi-spherically onto stellar-mass black holes in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Neutralino annihilations in the Sun to weak boson and top quark pairs lead to high-energy neutrinos that can be detected by the IceCube and KM3 experiments in the search for neutralino dark matter. We calculate the neutrino signals from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vernon Barger , Wai-Yee Keung , Gabe Shaughnessy , Adam Tregre

We investigate neutrino-driven convection in core collapse supernovae and its ramifications for the explosion mechanism, for a 15 solar mass model. Our two-dimensional simulation begins at 12 ms after bounce and proceeds for 500 ms. We…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) might be powered by a black hole (BH) hyperaccretion systems via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism or neutrino annihilation from neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs). Magnetic coupling (MC) between the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Cui-Ying Song , Tong Liu , Yun-Feng Wei

By means of three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations with a Eulerian PPM code we investigate the formation and the properties of the accretion torus around the stellar mass black hole which originates from the merging of two neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are the extremely energetic transient events, visible from the most distant parts of the Universe. They are most likely powered by accretion on the hyper-Eddington rates that proceeds onto a newly born stellar mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Agnieszka Janiuk , Monika Moscibrodzka

(Abridged) The hyperaccreting neutron star or magnetar disks cooled via neutrino emission can be a candidate of gamma-ray burst (GRB) central engines. The strong field $\geq10^{15}-10^{16}$ G of the magnetar can play a significant role in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Dong Zhang , Z. G. Dai

This paper attempts to clarify the deep consequences of Barrow fractal black hole spacetime configurations caused by quantum gravity on neutrino pair annihilation and accretion disk dynamics. We systematically derive the analytical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-30 Yuxuan Shi , Hongbo Cheng

If collapsars are sources for both high-energy (HE) neutrinos and $r$-process nuclei, the profuse low-energy antineutrinos from $\beta$-decay of the newly-synthesized nuclei can annihilate the HE neutrinos. Considering HE neutrinos produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-25 Gang Guo , Yong-Zhong Qian , Meng-Ru Wu

We present a detailed, two dimensional numerical study of the microphysical conditions and dynamical evolution of accretion disks around black holes when neutrino emission is the main source of cooling. Such structures are likely to form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Dany Page

We study the hydrodynamical evolution of massive accretion disks around black holes, formed when a neutron star is disrupted by a black hole in a binary system. Initial conditions are taken from 3D calculations of coalescing binaries.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Accretion onto neutron stars (NSs) in X-ray pulsars (XRPs) results in intense X-ray emission, and under specific conditions, high-energy nuclear interactions that produce gamma-ray photons at discrete energies. These interactions are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 Alexander A. Mushtukov , Emir Tataroglu , Alex J. Cooper , Sergey S. Tsygankov

Neutrino-dominated accretion flows (NDAFs) around rotating stellar-mass black holes (BHs) are plausible candidates for the central engines of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). NDAFs are hyperaccretion disks with accretion rates in the range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Tong Liu , Wei-Min Gu , Bing Zhang

Reactor antineutrinos have been indispensable for our understanding of neutrino mass and mixing. At the same time, discrepancies between the observed and predicted reactor $\overline{\nu}_{e}$ rate and energy spectra have grown as the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-01-31 Daniel A. Dwyer

We perform three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the coalescence of binary neutron stars. We include the emission and backreaction of gravitational waves into the Newtonian ``Piecewise Parabolic Method''. The use of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 H. -Th. Janka , M. Ruffert