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We investigate the influence of magnetic fields on the evolution of binary neutron-star (BNS) merger remnants via three-dimensional (3D) dynamical-spacetime general-relativistic (GR) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. We evolve a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-29 Philipp Mösta , David Radice , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The amplification of magnetic fields plays an important role in explaining numerous astrophysical phenomena associated with binary neutron-star mergers, such as mass ejection and the powering of short gamma-ray bursts. Magnetic fields in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Michail Chabanov , Samuel D. Tootle , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

We present a systematic study of magnetised neutron star head on collisions. We investigate the resulting magnetic field geometries as the two neutron stars merge. Furthermore, we analyze the luminosity produced in these collisions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-21 Antonios Nathanail

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

Over the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in sub-solar mass black holes due to their potential to provide valuable information about cosmology or the black hole population. Motivated by this, we study observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Ivan Markin , Anna Neuweiler , Adrian Abac , Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Maximiliano Ujevic , Mattia Bulla , Tim Dietrich

We analyze a long-lived hyper-massive neutron star merger remnant (post-merger lifetime $>250$ ms) that has been obtained via large eddy simulations with a gradient subgrid-scale model. We find a clear helicoidal magnetic field structure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Carlos Palenzuela , Federico Carrasco , Stephan Rosswog , Daniele Viganò

Numerical simulations are essential to understand the complex physics accompanying the merger of binary systems of neutron stars. However, these simulations become computationally challenging when they have to model the merger remnants on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 Jin-Liang Jiang , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla

The oscillation modes of neutron star (NS) merger remnants, as encoded by the kHz postmerger gravitational wave (GW) signal, hold great potential for constraining the as-yet undetermined equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Jamie Bamber , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

We report long-term simulations of black hole-neutron star binary mergers where the neutron star possesses an asymmetric magnetic field dipole. Focusing on the scenario where the neutron star is tidally disrupted by the black hole, we track…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 Mew-Bing Wan

A hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) is a possible transient formed after the merger of a neutron star binary. In the latest magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity, we find that a magnetized HMNS undergoes `delayed'…

With the rapid advancements in next-generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, it is anticipated that $10^3$-$10^5$ binary neutron star (BNS) mergers per year will be detected, with a significant fraction accompanied by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu , Hao Ma , Qingbo Chu

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating both nucleonic and hyperonic finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling for the first time. It is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

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

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

Black hole--neutron star (BHNS) binary mergers can form disks in which magnetorotational instability (MRI)-induced turbulence may drive accretion onto the remnant BH, supporting relativistic jets and providing the engine for a short-hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-10 Zachariah B. Etienne , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

We perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with four distinct magnetic field topologies: (i) a dipole pulsar-like configuration, (ii) a mixed linear superposition of poloidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Inês Rainho , Jamie Bamber , Davide Guerra , Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

We perform 3D numerical simulations for merger of equal mass binary neutron stars in full general relativity preparing irrotational binary neutron stars in a quasiequilibrium state as initial conditions. Simulations have been carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

As a follow-up study of our previous work, numerical-relativity simulations for seconds-long black hole-neutron star mergers are performed for a variety of setups. Irrespective of the initial and symmetry conditions, we find qualitatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Nuclear star clusters surrounding supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei contain large numbers of stars, black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs), a fraction of which are likely to form binaries. These binaries were suggested…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Giacomo Fragione , Evgeni Grishin , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Hagai. B. Perets , Rosalba Perna