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We study dynamical capture binary neutron star mergers as may arise in dense stellar regions such as globular clusters. Using general-relativistic hydrodynamics, we find that these mergers can result in the prompt collapse to a black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-02 William E. East , Frans Pretorius

We present a simple analytic model, that captures the key features of the emission of radiation from material ejected by the merger of neutron stars (NS), and construct the multi-band and bolometric luminosity light curves of the transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-12 Eli Waxman , Eran Ofek , Doron Kushnir , Avishay Gal-Yam

Binary neutron-star mergers have long been associated with short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This connection was confirmed with the first coincident detection of gravitational waves together with electromagnetic radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-11 Antonios Nathanail , Oliver Porth , Luciano Rezzolla

Outflows launched from a remnant disc of compact binary merger may have essential contribution to the kilonova emission. Numerical calculations are conducted in this work to study the structure of accretion flows and outflows. By the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Tuan Yi , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Rajiv Kumar , Hui-Jun Mu , Cui-Ying Song

The ejected material at the binary neutron star merger GW 170817 was confirmed as a kilonova by UV, optical, and IR observations. This event provides a unique opportunity to investigate the particle acceleration at a mildly relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Katsuaki Asano , Sho To

Classical novae are the most common astrophysical thermonuclear explosions, occurring on the surfaces of white dwarf stars accreting gas from companions in binary star systems. Novae typically expel ~10^(-4) solar masses of material at…

Context. Classical novae are thermonuclear explosions hosted by accreting white dwarfs in stellar binary systems. Material piles up on top of the white dwarf star under mildly degenerate conditions, driving a thermonuclear runaway. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Joana Figueira , Jordi Jose , Enrique Garcia-Berro , Simon W. Campbell , Domingo Garcia-Senz , Shazrene Mohamed

The existence of neutron star mergers has been supported since the discovery of the binary pulsar and the observation of its orbital energy loss, consistent with General Relativity. They are considered nucleosynthesis sites of the rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-09 F. -K. Thielemann , M. Eichler , I. V. Panov , B. Wehmeyer

Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (SGRBs) are believed to arise from compact binary mergers (either neutron star-neutron star or black hole-neutron star). If so their jets must penetrate outflows that are ejected during the merger. As a jet crosses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 Ore Gottlieb , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiations from a neutron star merger were discovered on 17 August 2017. Multiband observations of the optical transient have identified brightness and spectrum features broadly consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-07 Li-Xin Li

The merger of two neutron stars has been predicted to produce an optical-infrared transient (lasting a few days) known as a 'kilonova', powered by the radioactive decay of neutron-rich species synthesized in the merger. Evidence that short…

The late stage of an inspiraling neutron star binary gives rise to strong gravitational wave emission due to its highly dynamic, strong gravity. Moreover, interactions between the stellar magnetospheres can produce considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Marcelo Ponce , Steven L. Liebling , Matthew Anderson , David Neilsen , Patrick Motl

Material ejected during (or immediately following) the merger of two neutron stars may assemble into heavy elements by the r-process. The subsequent radioactive decay of the nuclei can power electromagnetic emission similar to, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Daniel Kasen , N. R. Badnell , Jennifer Barnes

Core-collapse supernovae are found in galaxies with ongoing star-formation. In a starburst galaxy hosting an active galactic nucleus with a relativistic jet, supernovae can take place inside the jet. The collision of the supernova ejecta…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 F. L. Vieyro , V. Bosch-Ramon , N. Torres-Albà

We carry out a comprehensive study of supernova ejecta-companion interaction in massive binary systems. We aim to physically understand the kinematics of the interaction and predict observational signatures. To do this we perform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Ryosuke Hirai , Philipp Podsiadlowski , Shoichi Yamada

Short GRBs are produced by relativistic jets arising from binary NS-NS or NS-BH mergers. Since the detection of the first unambiguous off-axis GRB 170817A, we learned that energy distribution in the jet plays an important role in explaining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-19 Gerardo Urrutia , Agnieszka Janiuk

The recent detections of binary stellar mass black hole mergers by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations suggest that such mergers are common occurrences. Galaxy mergers further indicate that supermassive black holes in centers of galaxies also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Ilja Jaroschewski , Julia Becker Tjus , Peter L. Biermann

In the last decade, enormous progress has been achieved in the understanding of the various facets of coalescing double neutron star and neutron black hole binary systems. One hopes that the mergers of such compact binaries can be routinely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. Rosswog

Binary black hole mergers are among the most violent events in the Universe, leading to extreme warping of spacetime and copious emission of gravitational radiation. Even though black holes are the most compact objects they are not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Chad Hanna , Matthew C. Johnson , Luis Lehner

The first hours following a neutron star merger are considered to provide several UV/optical/NIR signals: $ \beta $-decay emission from free neutrons, radioactive decay of shocked heavy elements in the cocoon and cocoon's cooling emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Ore Gottlieb , Abraham Loeb