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Extending previous work by a number of authors, we have recently presented a new approach in which the detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries can be used to determine the equation of state of matter at nuclear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-09 Kentaro Takami , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Baiotti

We study dynamical capture binary black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) mergers focusing on the effects of the neutron star spin. These events may arise in dense stellar regions, such as globular clusters, where the majority of neutron stars are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-29 William E. East , Vasileios Paschalidis , Frans Pretorius

A relativistic degenerate neutron gas in equilibrium with a background of electrons and protons in a magnetic field exerts its pressure anisotropically, having a smaller value perpendicular than along the magnetic field. For critical fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-07 A. Perez Martinez , H. Perez Rojas , H. J. Mosquera Cuesta

Massive stars (those larger than 8 solar masses at formation) have radiative envelopes that cannot sustain a dynamo, the mechanism that produces magnetic fields in lower-mass stars. Despite this, approximately 7\% of massive stars have…

Strongly magnetized neutron stars are popular candidates for producing detectable electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals. Gravitational collapses of neutron stars triggered by a phase transition from hadrons to deconfined quarks in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-25 Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

We investigate the chiral magnetic instability in the crust of a neutron star as a potential mechanism for amplifying magnetic fields. This instability may become active when small deviations from chemical equilibrium are sustained over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-13 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

The coalescence of a binary neutron star (NS) system may in some cases produce a massive NS remnant that is long-lived and, potentially, indefinitely stable to gravitational collapse. Such a remnant has been proposed as an explanation for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Brian D. Metzger , Geoffrey C. Bower

The merger of a binary neutron star system is suggested as the central engine of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). For the merger process, simulations predict that magnetic field is amplified beyond magnetar field strength by Kelvin-Helmholtz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-06 Nissim Fraija , William H. Lee , Peter Veres , Rodolfo Barniol Duran

Neutron star (NS) mergers provide us with information rich in physics using multi-messenger astrophysical observations. One of the probable remnants of such a merger is a differentially rotating hot hypermassive neutron star. The stability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-19 Krishna Prakash Nunna , Sarmistha Banik , Debarati Chatterjee

Determining the differential-rotation law of compact stellar objects produced in binary neutron stars mergers or core-collapse supernovae is an old problem in relativistic astrophysics. Addressing this problem is important because it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 Matthias Hanauske , Kentaro Takami , Luke Bovard , Luciano Rezzolla , José A. Font , Filippo Galeazzi , Horst Stöcker

Magnetic fields are found in many astrophysical objects, ranging from galaxy clusters to the interstellar medium of galaxies and neutron stars. Strong magnetic fields are also observed in massive stars, but it is still unclear how they are…

We present results from the first large parameter study of neutron star mergers using fully general relativistic simulations with finite-temperature microphysical equations of state and neutrino cooling. We consider equal and unequal-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice , Christian D. Ott , Luke F. Roberts , Philipp Moesta , Filippo Galeazzi

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) at cosmological distances still hold concealed physical origins. Previously Liu (2018) proposes a scenario that the collision between a neutron star (NS) and a white dwarf (WD) can be one of the progenitors of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-24 Xiang Liu

The binary neutron star merger GW170817/GRB170817A confirmed that at least some neutron star mergers are the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts. Many short gamma-ray bursts have long-term x-ray afterglows that have been interpreted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Paul D. Lasky , Nikhil Sarin , Greg Ashton

The formation histories of compact binary mergers, especially stellar-mass binary-black hole mergers, have recently come under increased scrutiny and revision. In this paper we revisit the question of the dominant formation channel and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-28 Monica Gallegos-Garcia , Christopher P L Berry , Vicky Kalogera

Employing a simplified version of the Israel-Stewart formalism for general-relativistic shear-viscous hydrodynamics, we perform axisymmetric general-relativistic simulations for a rotating neutron star surrounded by a massive torus, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Kiuchi , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi

The merger of binary neutron stars, or of a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole, can result in the formation of a massive rotating torus around a spinning black hole. In addition to providing collimating media for gamma-ray burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

The formation of neutron stars (NSs), both from collapses of massive stars and mergers of compact objects, can be usually indicated by bright transients emitted from explosively-ejected material. In particular, if the newborn NSs can rotate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Yun-Wei Yu , Aming Chen , Zi-Gao Dai , Shao-Ze Li , Liang-Duan Liu , Jin-Ping Zhu

We present results from three-dimensional general relativistic simulations of binary neutron star coalescences and mergers using public codes. We considered equal mass models where the baryon mass of the two Neutron Stars (NS) is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-09 Francesco Maione , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Frank Löffler

Gravitational waves have been detected from the inspiral of a binary neutron-star, GW170817, which allowed constraints to be placed on the neutron star equation of state. The equation of state can be further constrained if gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Paul J. Easter , Paul D. Lasky , Andrew R. Casey , Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami