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In addition to the emission of gravitational waves (GWs) the coalescence and merger of two neutron stars will produce a variety of electromagnetic (EM) signals. In this work we combine a large set of numerical relativity simulations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-03 Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic

The majority of existing results for the kilonova (or macronova) emission from material ejected during a neutron-star (NS) merger is based on (quasi-)one-zone models or manually constructed toy-model ejecta configurations. In this study we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-06 Oliver Just , Ina Kullmann , Stephane Goriely , Andreas Bauswein , Hans-Thomas Janka , Christine E. Collins

We present numerical results of three-dimensional simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) in full general relativity. Hybrid equations of state (EOSs) are adopted to mimic realistic nuclear EOSs. In this approach, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi , Koji Uryu

The dynamics in mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) systems depend sensitively on the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter. This has profound implications on the emission of gravitational waves (GWs) and the ejection of matter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 Maximilian Jacobi , Federico Maria Guercilena , Sabrina Huth , Giacomo Ricigliano , Almudena Arcones , Achim Schwenk

We perform long-term general relativistic neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations (in axisymmetry) for a massive neutron star (MNS) surrounded by a torus, which is a canonical remnant formed after the binary neutron star merger. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Sho Fujibayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Nobuya Nishimura , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Predicting the properties of the matter ejected during and after a neutron star merger is crucial to our ability to use electromagnetic observations of these mergers to constrain the masses of the neutron stars, the equation of state of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-30 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Binary neutron star mergers probe the dense-matter equation of state (EoS) across a wide range of densities and temperatures, from the cold conditions of the inspiral to the high-temperature matter of the massive neutron star remnant. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

We performed general relativistic, long-term, axisymmetric neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations for the remnant formed after the binary neutron star merger, which consist of a massive neutron star and a torus surrounding it. As an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata

Neutron star-black hole binaries are among the strongest sources of gravitational waves detectable by current observatories. They can also power bright electromagnetic signals (gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae), and may be a significant source…

We systematically perform numerical-relativity simulations for low-mass black hole-neutron star mergers for the models with seven mass ratios $Q=M_{\rm BH}/M_{\rm NS}$ ranging from 1.5 to 4.4, and three neutron-star equations of state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Kota Hayashi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

Binary neutron star mergers are expected to produce fast dynamical ejecta, with mildly relativistic velocities extending to $\beta=v/c>0.6$. In a preceding paper, we derived an analytic description of the time-dependent radio to X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Gilad Sadeh , Noya Linder , Eli Waxman

Weak reactions are critical for the neutron richness of the matter dynamically ejected after the merger of two neutron stars. The neutron richness, defined by the electron fraction (Ye), determines which heavy elements are produced by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 D. Martin , A. Perego , W. Kastaun , A. Arcones

We perform a numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of binary neutron stars with 6 nuclear-theory-based equations of state (EOSs) described by piecewise polytropes. Our purpose is to explore the dependence of the dynamical behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-13 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Kenta Kiuchi

The ejection of neutron-rich matter is one of the most important consequences of a neutron star merger. While the bulk of the matter is ejected at fast, but non-relativistic velocities ($\sim0.2c$), a small amount of mildly relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 S. Rosswog , N. Sarin , E. Nakar , P. Diener

Binary neutron star mergers provide a unique probe of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS) across a wide range of parameter space, from the zero-temperature EoS during the inspiral to the high-temperature EoS following the merger. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Carolyn Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis , Feryal Özel

We follow the longterm evolution of the dynamic ejecta of neutron star mergers for up to 100 years and over a density range of roughly 40 orders of magnitude. We include the nuclear energy input from the freshly synthesized, radioactively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-05 S. Rosswog , O. Korobkin , A. Arcones , F. -K. Thielemann , T. Piran

We study mass ejection from a binary neutron star merger producing a long-lived massive neutron star remnant with general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations. In addition to outflows generated by shocks and tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

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

The merger of binary neutron stars is likely to lead to differentially rotating remnants. In this paper, we survey several cold nuclear equations of state (EOSs) and numerically construct models of differentially rotating neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ian A. Morrison , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro

We perform a general-relativistic neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a one second-long binary neutron star merger on Japanese supercomputer Fugaku using about $72$ million CPU hours with $20,736$ CPUs. We consider an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Kenta Kiuchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Kota Hayashi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata