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We analyze the influence of hyperons in binary neutron star mergers considering several different equations of state that include hyperons. By running a large set of simulations, we study the impact of the thermally produced hyperons on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-25 Laura Tolos , Hristijan Kochankovski , Angels Ramos , Georgios Lioutas , Sebastian Blacker , Andreas Bauswein

Compact object mergers eject neutron-rich matter in a number of ways: by the dynamical ejection mediated by gravitational torques, as neutrino-driven winds and probably also a good fraction of the resulting accretion disc finally becomes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Rosswog

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. It is found that for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

We perform fully general-relativistic simulations of binary strange star mergers considering two different approaches for thermal effects. The first uses a cold equation of state (EOS) derived from a modified version of the MIT bag model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Francesco Grippa , Aviral Prakash , Domenico Logoteta , David Radice , Ignazio Bombaci

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating a finite-temperature (Shen's) equation of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling for the first time. It is found that for this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-22 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

Parametric equations of state (EoSs) provide an important tool for systematically studying EoS effects in neutron star merger simulations. In this work, we perform a numerical validation of the M*-framework for parametrically calculating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Carolyn A. Raithel , Pedro Espino , Vasileios Paschalidis

Core-collapse simulations of massive stars are performed using the equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic variational calculation with realistic nuclear forces. The progenitor models with the initial masses of $15M_\odot$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Togashi

An extended set of binary neutron star (NS) merger simulations is performed with an approximative conformally flat treatment of general relativity to systematically investigate the influence of the nuclear equation of state (EoS), the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Oechslin , H. -T. Janka , A. Marek

We study the long-term (t >> 10 s) evolution of the accretion disk after a neutron star(NS)-NS or NS-black hole merger, taking into account the radioactive heating by r-process nuclei formed in the first few seconds. We find that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Wenbin Lu , Eliot Quataert

We perform binary neutron star merger simulations using a newly derived set of finite-temperature equations of state in the Brueckner-Hartree-Fock approach. We point out the important and opposite roles of finite temperature and rotation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-21 A. Figura , F. Li , J. -J. Lu , G. F. Burgio , Z. H. Li , H. -J. Schulze

We present a new set of numerical-relativity simulations of merging binary neutron stars, aiming to identify possible observable signatures of the slope of the symmetry energy $L_{\rm sym}$. To achieve this goal, we employ a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-08 Henrique Gieg , Maximiliano Ujevic , Armen Sedrakian , Tim Dietrich

We investigate properties of material ejected dynamically in the merger of black hole-neutron star binaries by numerical-relativity simulations. We systematically study the dependence of ejecta properties on the mass ratio of the binary,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Koutarou Kyutoku , Kunihito Ioka , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

It is anticipated that the gravitational radiation detected in future gravitational wave (GW) detectors from binary neutron star (NS) mergers can probe the high-density equation of state (EOS). We perform the first simulations of binary NS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Atul Kedia , Hee Il Kim , In-Saeng Suh , Grant J. Mathews

We explore the multi-messenger signatures of encounters between two neutron stars and between a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole. We focus on the differences between gravitational wave driven binary mergers and dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Rosswog , T. Piran , E. Nakar

With the recent advent of multi-messenger gravitational-wave astronomy and in anticipation of more sensitive, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, we investigate the dynamics, gravitational-wave emission, and nucleosynthetic yields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-07 L. Jens Papenfort , Roman Gold , Luciano Rezzolla

Kilonova is an optical-infrared transient powered by the radioactive decay of heavy nuclei from binary neutron star mergers. Its observational characteristics depend on the mass and the nuclide composition of meger ejecta, which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-03 Wu-Zimo Qiumu , Meng-Hua Chen , Qiu-Hong Chen , En-Wei Liang

The merger dynamics of a black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binary is influenced by the neutron star equation of state (EoS) through the latter's effect on the neutron star's radius and on the character of the mass transfer onto the black hole.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew D. Duez , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Christian D. Ott , Saul A. Teukolsky

Merging neutron stars generate shock waves that disintegrate heavy nuclei into nucleons especially in the outer envelope. It is expected that some of such neutrons having avoided capturing positrons remain as free neutrons even after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Ayako Ishii , Toshikazu Shigeyama , Masaomi Tanaka

Long-term neutrino-radiation resistive-magnetohydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for a system composed of a massive neutron star and a torus formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. The simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi