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The coalescence of two neutron stars is accompanied by the emission of gravitational waves, and can also feature electromagnetic counterparts powered by mass ejecta and the formation of a relativistic jet after the merger. Since neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Elias R. Most , Alexander A. Philippov

Using accurate and fully general-relativistic simulations we assess the effect that magnetic fields have on the gravitational-wave emission produced during the inspiral and merger of magnetized neutron stars. In particular, we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-12 Bruno Giacomazzo , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Baiotti

We consider topological configurations of the magnetically coupled spinning stellar binaries (e.g., merging neutron stars or interacting star-planet systems). We discuss conditions when the stellar spins and the orbital motion nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Sergey A. Cherkis , Maxim Lyutikov

The dynamics of a binary neutron stars merger is governed by physics under the most extreme conditions, including strong spacetime curvature, ultra-high matter densities, luminous neutrino emission and the rapid amplification of the initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Jan-Erik Christian , Stephan Rosswog , Carlos Palenzuela

We analytically study the properties of the electromagnetic field in vacuum around close binary compact stars containing at least one neutron star. We show that the orbital motion of the neutron star induces high multipole modes of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Tomoki Wada , Masaru Shibata , Kunihito Ioka

If at least one neutron star (NS) is magnetized in a binary NS merger, then the orbital motion of the conducting companion during the final inspiral induces a strong voltage and current along the magnetic field lines connecting the NSs. If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Brian D. Metzger , Charles Zivancev

Magnetar bursts can be emitted by Alfv\'en waves growing in the outer magnetosphere to nonlinear amplitudes, $\delta B/B\sim 1$, and triggering magnetic reconnection. Similar magnetic flares should occur quasi-periodically in a magnetized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Andrei M. Beloborodov

Neutron stars exhibit magnetic fields and densities far beyond those achievable in terrestrial laboratories, offering a natural probe of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Using observationally anchored mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Abriana Lyda , Prajwal MohanMurthy

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

Merging neutron star (NS) binaries may be detected by ground-based gravitational wave (GW) interferometers (e.g. LIGO/VIRGO) within this decade and may also generate electromagnetic radiation detectable by wide-field, fast imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Dong Lai

Gravitational waves emitted from the coalescence of neutron star binaries open a new window to probe matter and fundamental physics in unexplored, extreme regimes. To extract information about the supranuclear matter inside neutron stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Tim Dietrich , Tanja Hinderer , Anuradha Samajdar

Young stars typically have strong magnetic fields, so that the magnetospheres of newly formed close binaries can interact, dissipate energy, and produce synchrotron radiation. The V773 Tau A binary system, a pair of T Tauri stars with a 51…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Fred C. Adams , Michael J. Cai , Daniele Galli , Susana Lizano , Frank H. Shu

The merger of a double neutron star (NS-NS) binary may result in a rapidly rotating massive NS with an extremely strong magnetic field (i.e., a millisecond magnetar). In this case, the magnetic spin-down of the NS remnant provides an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-06 He Gao , Bing Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü , Ye Li

Binary neutron stars (NSNS) are expected to be among the leading sources of gravitational waves observable by ground-based laser interferometers and may be the progenitors of short-hard gamma ray bursts. We present a series of general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Zachariah B. Etienne , Keisuke Taniguchi

Long-lived massive magnetars are expected to be remnants of some binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. In this paper, we argue that the magnetic powered flaring activities of these merged magnetars would occur dominantly in their early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Shu-Xu Yi , Zhen Zhang , Xilu Wang

Stars interact with their close-in planets through radiation, gravitation, and magnetic fields. We investigate the energy input to a planetary atmosphere by reconnection between stellar and planetary magnetic fields and compare it to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-10 A. F. Lanza

We examine the range of rest-mass densities, temperatures and magnetic fields involved in simulations of binary neutron-star mergers and identify the conditions under which the ideal-magnetohydrodynamics approximation breaks down and hence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-13 Arus Harutyunyan , Antonios Nathanail , Luciano Rezzolla , Armen Sedrakian

Coalescing neutron star binary (NSB) systems are primary candidates for $r$-process enrichment of galaxies. The recent detection of $r$-process elements in ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies and the abundances measured in classical dwarfs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Matteo Bonetti , Albino Perego , Massimo Dotti , Gabriele Cescutti

We perform force-free simulations for a neutron star orbiting a black hole, aiming at clarifying the main magnetosphere properties of such binaries towards their innermost stable circular orbits. Several configurations are explored, varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata , Oscar Reula

Magnetars are young, highly magnetized neutron stars that are associated with magnetar short bursts (MSBs), magnetar giant flares (MGFs), and at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs). In this work, we consider a magnetar and a main sequence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Yu-Jia Wei , Yuan-Pei Yang , Da-Ming Wei , Zi-Gao Dai