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Super-Eddington accretion of neutron stars (NSs) has been suggested both observationally and theoretically. In this paper, we propose that NSs in close-orbit binary systems with companions of helium (He) stars, most of which systems form…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-25 Jin-Ping Zhu , Ying Qin , Zhen-Han-Tao Wang , Rui-Chong Hu , Bing Zhang , Shichao Wu

Binary neutron star mergers, which can lead to less massive black holes relative to other known astrophysical channels, have the potential to probe modifications to general relativity that arise at smaller curvature scales compared to more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 William E. East , Frans Pretorius

The detection of electromagnetic radiation (EM) accompanying the gravitational wave (GW) signal from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 has revealed that these systems constitute at least a fraction of the progenitors of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Rosalba Perna , M. Celeste Artale , Yi-Han Wang , Michela Mapelli , Davide Lazzati , Cecilia Sgalletta , Filippo Santoliquido

The identification of the first confirmed neutron star - black hole (NS-BH) binary mergers by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaboration provides the opportunity to investigate the properties of the early sample of confirmed and candidate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 B. P. Gompertz , M. Nicholl , P. Schmidt , G. Pratten , A. Vecchio

The search for multi-messenger signals of binary black hole (BBH) mergers is crucial to understanding the merger process of BBH and the relative astrophysical environment. Considering BBH mergers occurring in the active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-07 Zi-Hang Zhou , Kai Wang

Gravitational wave observations of eccentric binary black hole mergers will provide unequivocal evidence for the formation of these systems through dynamical assembly in dense stellar environments. The study of these astrophysically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-06 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Sarah Habib , Anushri Gupta , Adam Rebei , Vishnu Chavva , Daniel Johnson , Shawn Rosofsky , Erik Wessel , Bhanu Agarwal , Diyu Luo , Wei Ren

Gravitational waves from binary black hole pairs have emerged as an important observational tool in current times. The energy of the BH - BH binary pair is radiated in the form of gravitational waves and to compensate for that energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-11 Shibaji Banerjee , Ashadul Halder , Sanjay K. Ghosh , Sibaji Raha , Debasish Majumdar

Context: Mergers of neutron stars (NS) and black holes (BH) are among the strongest sources of gravitational waves and are potential central engines for short gamma-ray bursts. Aims: We aim to compare the general relativistic (GR) results…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Ruffert , H. -Th. Janka

The recent discovery of the binary black hole (BBH) merger event GW190521, between two black holes (BHs) of $\approx100M_\odot$, and as well as other massive BBH merger events involving BHs within the pair-instability supernova (PSN) mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Sambaran Banerjee

Almost a hundred compact binary mergers have been detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration in the past few years providing us with a significant amount of new information on black holes and neutron stars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Kutay A. Çokluk , Kadri Yakut , Bruno Giacomazzo

The Gravitational Wave (GW) events GW150914, GW151226, GW170104 detected by LIGO were a record of Black Hole binary merging system (BH-BH) very probably in nearly empty or a vacuum space; such a kind of events will be mostly with no baryon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-16 Daniele Fargion , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini , Pietro Oliva , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

Six gravitational wave detections have been reported so far, providing crucial insights on the merger rate of double compact objects. We investigate the cosmic merger rate of double neutron stars (DNSs), neutron star-black hole binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo

A direct detection of black hole formation in neutron star mergers would provide invaluable information about matter in neutron star cores and finite temperature effects on the nuclear equation of state. We study black hole formation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Arnab Dhani , David Radice , Jan Schütte-Engel , Susan Gardner , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego , Rahul Kashyap

There are indications that stellar-origin black holes (BHs) are efficiently paired up in binary black holes (BBHs) in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) disc environments, which can undergo interactions with single BHs in the disc. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-28 Gaia Fabj , Johan Samsing

The mergers of black hole-neutron star binaries are calcuated using a pseudo-general relativistic potential that incorporates ${\mathcal O}(v^2/c^2)^3$ post-Newtonian corrections. Both normal matter neutron stars and self-bound strange…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Madappa Prakash , Sasa Ratkovic , James M. Lattimer

We investigate the possibility of electromagnetic fields leaving imprints on gravitational wave (GW) signals from Neutron Star-Black hole (NSBH) mergers, specifically in the context of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs). Using black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Fawzi Aly , Mahmoud A. Mansour , Dejan Stojkovic

Mergers between stellar-mass black holes will be key sources of gravitational radiation for ground-based detectors. However, the rates of these events are highly uncertain, given that such systems are invisible. One formation scenario…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Coleman Miller , Vanessa M. Lauburg

The joint observation of GW170817 and GRB170817A proved that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-ray Bursts (SGRB): this established a direct link between the still unsettled SGRB central engine and the outcome…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Barbara Patricelli , Maria Grazia Bernardini

The merger dynamics of a black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binary is influenced by the neutron star equation of state (EoS) through the latter's effect on the neutron star's radius and on the character of the mass transfer onto the black hole.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew D. Duez , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Christian D. Ott , Saul A. Teukolsky

Determining the final result of black hole-neutron star mergers, and in particular the amount of matter remaining outside the black hole at late times and its properties, has been one of the main motivations behind the numerical simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-11 Francois Foucart