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All the current r-process scenarios relevant to core-collapse supernovae are facing severe difficulties. In particular, recent core-collapse simulations with neutrino transport show no sign of a neutron-rich wind from the proto-neutron…

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The innermost ejecta of core-collapse supernovae are considered to be the sources of some iron-group and heavier nuclei. The ejecta are predominantly driven by neutrino heating, principally due to neutrino capture on free neutrons and…

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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…

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The binary-driven hypernova (BdHN) model proposes long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate in binaries composed of a carbon-oxygen (CO) star and a neutron star (NS) companion. The CO core collapse generates a newborn NS and a supernova that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-03 L. M. Becerra , F. Cipolletta , C. L. Fryer , Débora P. Menezes , Constança Providência , J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

The collapse of rotating massive (~$10 M_\odot$) stars resulting in hyperaccreting black holes (BHs; "collapsars") is a leading model for the central engines of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and a promising source of rapid neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-21 Aman Agarwal , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger , Chris Nagele

The recent multimessenger observation of the short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) GRB 170817A together with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 provides evidence for the long-standing hypothesis associating SGRBs with binary neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Bruno Giacomazzo

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity (GRMHD) of a binary black hole-neutron star on a quasicircular orbit that undergoes merger. The binary mass ratio is 3:1, the black hole initial spin parameter $a/m=0.75$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vasileios Paschalidis , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

The dynamical processes involving stellar-remnant black holes (BH) in stellar clusters has always drawn attention due to the BHs' potential in a number of astrophysical phenomena, especially the dynamical formation of binary black holes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Sambaran Banerjee

Motivated by the increasing number of detections of merging black holes by LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA, black hole (BH) binary mergers in the discs of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is investigated as a possible merger channel. In this pathway, BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Connar Rowan , Tjarda Boekholt , Bence Kocsis , Zoltán Haiman

Around half of the heavy elements in the universe are formed through the slow neutron capture (s-) process, which takes place in thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars with masses $1-6\;M_{\odot}$. The nucleosynthetic imprint…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 A. J. Dimoff , C. J. Hansen , R. J. Stancliffe , B. Kubatova , I. Stateva , A. Kucinskas , V. Dobrovolskas

Black hole - neutron star $(BH/NS)$ binaries are of interest in many ways: they are intrinsically multi-messenger systems, highly transient, radiate gravitational waves detectable by LIGO, and may produce $\gamma$-ray bursts. Although it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Yossef Zenati , Mor Rozner , Julian H Krolik , Elias R Most

We evaluate the redshift distribution of binary black hole (BBH), black hole - neutron star binary (BHNS) and binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, exploring the main sources of uncertainty: star formation rate (SFR) density, metallicity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-12 Filippo Santoliquido , Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo , Yann Bouffanais , M. Celeste Artale

In this paper, we present 52 new numerical-relativity (NR) simulations of black-hole-neutron-star merger (BHNS) mergers and employ the data to inform TEOBResumS-Dal\'i: a multipolar effective-one-body model also including precession and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-02 Alejandra Gonzalez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alireza Rashti , Francesco Brandoli , Rossella Gamba

The origin of half of the rapid neutron-capture nucleosynthesis (r-process) elements in the Universe remains an open question. Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers have been shown to face difficulties in reproducing the observed r-process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Joon Young Lee , Hsin-Yu Chen , Muhammed Saleem

The capacity to model magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) flows in dynamical, strongly curved spacetimes significantly extends the reach of numerical relativity in addressing many problems at the forefront of theoretical astrophysics. We have…

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The merger of binary neutron stars (NSs) ejects a small quantity of neutron rich matter, the radioactive decay of which powers a day to week long thermal transient known as a kilonova. Most of the ejecta remains sufficiently dense during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Brian D. Metzger , Andreas Bauswein , Stephane Goriely , Daniel Kasen

This study addresses the collapse behavior of neutron star (NS) mergers expressed through the binary threshold mass M_thr for prompt black hole (BH) formation, which we determine by relativistic hydrodynamical simulations for 40 equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Andreas Bauswein , Sebastian Blacker , Georgios Lioutas , Theodoros Soultanis , Vimal Vijayan , Nikolaos Stergioulas

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

We investigate the dynamics of stellar-mass black holes (BH) in star clusters focusing on the dynamical formation of BH-BH binaries, which are very important sources of gravitational waves (GW). We examine the properties of these BH-BH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-24 Sambaran Banerjee

We systematically performed numerical-relativity simulations for black hole (BH) - neutron star (NS) binary mergers with a variety of the BH spin orientation and equations of state (EOS) of the NS. The initial misalignment angles of the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hiroyuki Nakano , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi