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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

In this work, we discuss the dense matter equation of state (EOS) for the extreme range of conditions encountered in neutron stars and their mergers. The calculation of the properties of such an EOS involves modeling different degrees of…

Binary neutron star mergers provide a unique laboratory for studying matter under conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial experiments. They probe dense matter at supranuclear density, finite temperature, rapid rotation, strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Armen Sedrakian

By performing general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations with an approximate neutrino-radiation transfer, the properties of ejecta in dynamical and post-merger phases are investigated for the cases in which the remnant massive neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Sho Fujibayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Shinya Wanajo , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Fast material ejected dynamically over $<10$ ms during the merger of a binary neutron-star (BNS) system can give rise to distinctive electromagnetic counterparts to the system's gravitational-wave emission that can serve as a "smoking gun"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel

Numerical-relativity simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed for a variety of equations of state (EOSs) and for a plausible range of the neutron-star mass, focusing primarily on the properties of the material…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We perform fully general-relativistic hydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers over $100\,\rm ms$ post-merger to investigate the dynamics of remnant massive neutron stars (NSs). Our focus is mainly on the analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Yong Gao , Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Hao-Jui Kuan , Masaru Shibata

We present ${\tt NRPMw}$, an analytical model of gravitational-waves from neutron star merger remnants informed using 618 numerical relativity (NR) simulations. ${\tt NRPMw}$ is designed in the frequency domain using a combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Kabir Chakravarti , Alessandro Camilletti , Aviral Prakash , Albino Perego

We investigate systematically the dynamical mass ejection, r-process nucleosynthesis, and properties of electromagnetic counterparts of neutron-star (NS) mergers in dependence on the uncertain properties of the nuclear equation of state…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Bauswein , S. Goriely , H. -T. Janka

Merging neutron stars are expected to produce hot, metastable remnants in rapid differential rotation, which subsequently cool and evolve into rigidly rotating neutron stars or collapse to black holes. Studying this metastable phase and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-19 Giovanni Camelio , Tim Dietrich , Stephan Rosswog , Brynmor Haskell

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

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

The first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger, GW170817, has opened up a new avenue for constraining the ultradense-matter equation of state (EOS). The deviation of the observed waveform from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Carolyn A. Raithel

By means of HARM\_COOL\_EOS, which is our code for conservative relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, we developed a new scheme for the simulation of a system formed after compact binary merger. Our code works with a tabulated equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-18 Agnieszka Janiuk , Gerardo Urrutia

Multi-messenger observation of binary neutron-star mergers can provide valuable information on the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Here, we investigate to which extent electromagnetic observations of the associated kilonovae allow us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Kelsey A. Lund , Rahul Somasundaram , Gail C. McLaughlin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower , Ingo Tews

Binary neutron star (BNS) post-merger gravitational-wave emission can occur in the aftermath of a BNS merger -- provided the system avoids prompt collapse to a black hole -- as a quasistable hypermassive remnant experiences quadrupolar…

Following merger, a neutron star (NS) binary can produce roughly one of three different outcomes: (1) a stable NS, (2) a black hole (BH), or (3) a supra-massive, rotationally-supported NS, which then collapses to a BH following angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Anthony L. Piro , Bruno Giacomazzo , Rosalba Perna

With ongoing advancements in nuclear theory and experimentation, together with a growing body of neutron star (NS) observations, a wealth of information on the equation of state (EOS) for matter at extreme densities has become accessible.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Bhaskar Biswas , Stephan Rosswog

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

We study the merger of binary neutron stars using different realistic, microphysical nuclear equations of state, as well as incorporating magnetic field and neutrino cooling effects. In particular, we concentrate on the influence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 C. Palenzuela , S. L. Liebling , D. Neilsen , L. Lehner , O. L. Caballero , E. O'Connor , M. Anderson