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We investigate $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova emission resulting from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers based on a three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of a hypermassive neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Sanjana Curtis , Philipp Mösta , Zhenyu Wu , David Radice , Luke Roberts , Giacomo Ricigliano , Albino Perego

The final burst of gravitational radiation emitted by coalescing binary neutron stars carries direct information about the neutron star fluid, and, in particular, about the equation of state of nuclear matter at extreme densities. The final…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio

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

We demonstrate by a large set of merger simulations for symmetric binary neutron stars (NSs) that there is a tight correlation between the frequency peak of the postmerger gravitational-wave (GW) emission and the physical properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Bauswein , H. -Th. Janka

Matter in neutron star collisions can reach densities up to few times the nuclear saturation threshold and temperatures up to one hundred MeV. Understanding the structure and composition of such matter requires many-body nonperturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Albino Perego , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

Three-dimensional simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) are performed in the framework of full general relativity. We pay particular attention to the black hole (BH) formation case and to the resulting mass of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The ejecta from binary neutron star mergers, which powers its associated kilonova, can inform us about source properties, merger dynamics, and the dense nuclear matter equation of state. While now in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Amelia Henkel , Francois Foucart , Selah Melfor , Samaya Nissanke , Alexandra Wernersson , Uddipta Bhardwaj

We find, using high resolution numerical relativistic simulations, that the tail of the dynamical ejecta of neutron star mergers extends to mildly relativistic velocities faster than $0.7c$. The kinetic energy of this fast tail is $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Coalescence of neutron stars gives rise to kilonova, thermal emission powered by radioactive decays of freshly synthesized r-process nuclei. Although observational properties are largely affected by bound-bound opacities of r-process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Masaomi Tanaka , Daiji Kato , Gediminas Gaigalas , Kyohei Kawaguchi

The late inspiral, merger, and ringdown of a black hole-neutron star (BHNS) system can provide information about the neutron-star equation of state (EOS). Candidate EOSs can be approximated by a parametrized piecewise-polytropic EOS above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Benjamin D. Lackey , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Patrick R. Brady , John L. Friedman

In addition to producing a strong gravitational signal, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), and a compact remnant, neutron star mergers eject significant masses at significant kinetic energies. This mass ejection takes place via dynamical mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenta Hotokezaka , Tsvi Piran

Neutrinos emitted in the coalescence of two neutron stars affect the dynamics of the outflow ejecta and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. In this work, we analyze the neutrino emission properties and the conditions leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-16 Manu George , Meng-Ru Wu , Irene Tamborra , Ricard Ardevol-Pulpillo , Hans-Thomas Janka

We describe the current status of our numerical simulations for the collapse of a massive stellar core to a BH and the BNS mergers, performed in the framework of full general relativity incorporating finite-temperature EOS and neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-27 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

Shock breakout emission is among the first observable signals in a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, including neutron star (NS) mergers, and it can be the dominant component in low-luminosity short $\gamma$-ray bursts, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-27 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Mukul Bhattacharya , David Radice , Kohta Murase , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We study out-of-thermodynamic equilibrium effects in neutron star mergers with 3D general-relativistic neutrino-radiation large-eddy simulations. During merger, the cores of the neutron stars remain cold ($T \sim$ a few MeV) and out of…

Modeling binary neutron star merger (BNSM) ejecta evolution requires simulations involving hydrodynamics, nuclear reactions, and radiative processes. The impact of nuclear burning and atomic opacity is poorly understood and often treated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Fabio Magistrelli , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Albino Perego , Maximilian Jacobi , Christopher J. Fontes

We study the merger of black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries in numerical relativity, focusing on the properties of the remnant disk and the ejecta, varying the mass of compactness of the NS and the mass and spin of the BH. We find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-22 Shichuan Chen , Luohan Wang , Kota Hayashi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata

Gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnants complement constraints from the inspiral phase, mass-radius measurements, and microscopic theory by providing information about the neutron-star equation of state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Christian Ecker , Tyler Gorda , Aleksi Kurkela , Luciano Rezzolla

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

Three-dimensional hydrodynamical, Newtonian calculations of the coalescence of equal-mass binary neutron stars are performed, including a physical high-density equation of state and a treatment of the neutrino emission of the heated matter.…

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