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We investigate nucleosynthesis in the sub-relativistic outflows from black hole (BH) accretion disks formed in failed supernovae from rapidly-rotating Wolf-Rayet stars. These disks reach the neutrino-cooled regime during a portion of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-29 Coleman Dean , Rodrigo Fernández

We examine the long-term evolution of accretion tori around black hole (BH) remnants of compact object mergers involving at least one neutron star, to better understand their contribution to kilonovae and the synthesis of r-process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Steven Fahlman , Rodrigo Fernández

When binary systems of neutron stars merge, a very small fraction of their rest mass is ejected, either dynamically or secularly. This material is neutron-rich and its nucleosynthesis could provide the astrophysical site for the production…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-13 Luke Bovard , Dirk Martin , Federico Guercilena , Almudena Arcones , Luciano Rezzolla , Oleg Korobkin

We present our new general relativistic Monte Carlo (MC)-based neutrino radiation hydrodynamics code designed to solve axisymmetric systems with several improvements. The main improvements are as follows: (i) the development of an extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Masaru Shibata

We perform a comparative analysis of nucleosynthesis yields from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, black hole-neutron star (BHNS) mergers, and core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) with the goal of determining which are the most dominant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-30 Nick Ekanger , Mukul Bhattacharya , Shunsaku Horiuchi

Although the rapid neutron-capture process, or r-process, is fundamentally important for explaining the origin of approximately half of the stable nuclei with A > 60, the astrophysical site of this process has not been identified yet. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stephane Goriely , Andreas Bauswein , H. -Thomas Janka

Black-hole (BH) accretion disks formed in compact-object mergers or collapsars may be major sites of the rapid-neutron-capture (r-)process, but the conditions determining the electron fraction (Y_e) remain uncertain given the complexity of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Oliver Just , Stephane Goriely , Hans-Thomas Janka , Shigehiro Nagataki , Andreas Bauswein

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

In recent years, detailed observations and accurate numerical simulations have provided support to the idea that mergers of compact binaries containing either two neutron stars (NSs) or an NS and a black hole (BH) may constitute the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-18 Bruno Giacomazzo , Rosalba Perna , Luciano Rezzolla , Eleonora Troja , Davide Lazzati

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

We present a coherent study of the impact of neutrino interactions on the r-process element nucleosynthesis and the heating rate produced by the radioactive elements synthesised in the dynamical ejecta of neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-23 I. Kullmann , S. Goriely , O. Just , R. Ardevol-Pulpillo , A. Bauswein , H. -T. Janka

We report results of a high-resolution numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of black hole-magnetized neutron star binaries on Japanese supercomputer "K". We focus on a binary that is subject to tidal disruption and subsequent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi , Tomohide Wada

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We find that a few $10^{-3}\, M_\odot$ of material are ejected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 David Radice , Albino Perego , Kenta Hotokezaka , Steven A. Fromm , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Luke F. Roberts

The specific mechanism and astrophysical site for the production of half of the elements heavier than iron via rapid neutron capture (r-process) remains to be found. In order to reproduce the abundances of the solar system and of the old…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Arcones

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 study the post-merger mass ejection of low-mass binary neutron stars (NSs) with the system mass of $2.5\, M_\odot$, and subsequent nucleosynthesis by performing general-relativistic, neutrino-radiation viscous-hydrodynamics simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Sho Fujibayashi , Shinya Wanajo , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutaro Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We simulate a black-hole accretion disk system with full-transport general relativistic neutrino radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GR$\nu$RMHD) for 1.2 seconds. This system is likely to form after the merger of two compact objects and is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-18 T. M. Sprouse , K. A. Lund , J. M. Miller , G. C. McLaughlin , M. R. Mumpower

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are amongst promising candidates for the joint detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals with gravitational waves (GWs) and are expected to be detected in the near future. Here we study the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , George Smoot

We present our latest results for simulation for merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries in full general relativity which is performed preparing a quasicircular state as initial condition. The BH is modeled by a moving puncture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

A long-standing scientific puzzle has been to explain the origin of the heaviest elements in the Universe and, more particularly, the production of the elements heavier than iron up to uranium. The rapid neutron capture process (or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-14 Ina K. B. Kullmann