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The maximum mass of neutron stars ($M_{\rm TOV}$) plays a crucial role in understanding their equation of state (EoS). Previous studies have used the measurements for the compactness of massive pulsars and the tidal deformability of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Yong Yuan , Bing Zhang , Lin Lan

Neutron star (NS) mergers provide us with information rich in physics using multi-messenger astrophysical observations. One of the probable remnants of such a merger is a differentially rotating hot hypermassive neutron star. The stability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-19 Krishna Prakash Nunna , Sarmistha Banik , Debarati Chatterjee

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

As current gravitational wave (GW) detectors increase in sensitivity, and particularly as new instruments are being planned, there is the possibility that ground-based GW detectors will observe GWs from highly eccentric neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Tim Dietrich , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Brügmann

We report a new microscopic equation of state (EOS) of dense symmetric nuclear matter, pure neutron matter, and asymmetric and $\beta$-stable nuclear matter at zero temperature using recent realistic two-body and three-body nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-31 Ignazio Bombaci , Domenico Logoteta

Neutron star mergers are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for advanced ground-based detectors. These mergers are also expected to power bright electromagnetic signals, in the form of short gamma-ray bursts,…

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

We present twelve new simulations of unequal mass neutron star mergers. The simulations were preformed with the SpEC code, and utilize nuclear-theory based equations of state and a two-moment gray neutrino transport scheme with an improved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-04 Trevor Vincent , Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Roland Haas , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

In numerical simulations of core-collapse supernova and binary neutron stars mergers, information about the energetics and composition of matter is implemented via external tables covering the huge ranges of thermodynamic conditions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Adriana R. Raduta , Mikhail V. Beznogov

We investigate constraints on the high-density equation of state (EOS) of neutron star matter by analyzing the probability distributions of the endpoints of mass-radius M(R) sequences within a Bayesian weighting framework. Starting from two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Gábor Kasza , György Wolf

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the impact of different treatment of microphysics and grid resolution in binary neutron star mergers. We consider series of simulations at multiple resolutions comparing hydrodynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice , Albino Perego

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

Remnants of neutron-star mergers are essentially massive, hot, differentially rotating neutron stars, which are initially strongly oscillating. They represent a unique probe for high-density matter because the oscillations are detectable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Hans-Thomas Janka

We perform a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulation for $\approx 30$ ms after merger of a binary neutron star to a remnant massive neutron star (RMNS) with a high spatial resolution of the finest grid resolution $12.5$ m.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-20 Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

(abridged) We investigate the quark deconfinement phase transition in the context of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. We employ a new finite-temperature composition-dependent equation of state (EOS) with a first order phase transition…

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

The fate of the remnant following the merger of two neutron stars initially on quasicircular orbits depends primarily on the mass of the initial neutron stars, the mass ratio, and the still-uncertain dense-matter equation of state (EoS).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

We consider the influence of potential quark matter existing at high densities in neutron star interiors on gravitational waves (GW) emitted in a binary neutron star merger event. Two types of equations of state (EoS) at zero temperatures…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Oechslin , K. Uryū , G. Poghosyan , F. K. Thielemann

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in neutron star (NS) merger remnants can impact their evolution and multimessenger signatures, complicating the interpretation of present and future observations. Due to the high Reynolds numbers and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-30 David Radice

We present a study of the merger of six different known galactic systems of binary neutron stars (BNS) of unequal mass with a mass ratio between $0.75$ and $0.99$. Specifically, these systems are J1756-2251, J0737-3039A, J1906+0746,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 Alessandra Feo , Roberto De Pietri , Francesco Maione , Frank Löffler