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We systematically perform the merger simulation of black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries in full general relativity, focusing on the case that the NS is tidally disrupted. We prepare BH-NS binaries in a quasicircular orbit as the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We present the results of 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the magnetic interaction between a weakly magnetized neutron star and its accretion disk. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Mitsuru Hayashi , Ryoji Matsumoto

Merging supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries will likely be surrounded by a circumbinary accretion disk. Close to merger, gravitational radiation-driven inspiral will happen on timescales faster than the effective viscous time at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-23 Elias R. Most , Hai-Yang Wang

Stellar mergers are one important path to highly magnetised stars. Mergers of two low-mass white dwarfs may create up to every third hot subdwarf star. The merging process is usually assumed to dramatically amplify magnetic fields. However,…

The observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes and neutron stars provides a unique opportunity to discern information about their astrophysical environment. Two signatures that are considered powerful tracers to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Gonzalo Morras , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

Neutron stars (NSs) are extraordinary not only because they are the densest form of matter in the visible Universe but also because they can generate B-fields ten orders of magnitude larger than those currently constructed on Earth. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Antonios Tsokaros

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

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

We review the current status of attempts to numerically model the merger of neutron star-neutron star (NSNS) and black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binary systems, and we describe the understanding of such events that is emerging from these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew D. Duez

We explore the electromagnetic counterparts that will associate with binary neutron star mergers for the case that remnant massive neutron stars survive for $\gtrsim 0.5\,$s after the merger. For this study, we employ the outflow profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Kenta Hotokezaka , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo

We use axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the launching and collimation of jets emerging from the disk-magnetosphere boundary of accreting magnetized stars. Our analysis shows that the matter flows into the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-25 Patrick S Lii , Marina M. Romanova , Richard V. Lovelace

We study the merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries with a variety of BH spins aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum, and with the mass ratio in the range MBH/MNS = 2--5, where MBH and MNS are the mass of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The gravitational radiation emitted during the merger of a black hole with a neutron star is rather similar to the radiation from the merger of two black holes when the neutron star is not tidally disrupted. When tidal disruption occurs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Benjamin D. Lackey , Masaru Shibata

We investigate interactions of stellar binaries in galactic nuclear clusters with a massive black hole (MBH). We consider binaries on highly eccentric orbits around the MBH that change due to random gravitational interactions with other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Bradnick , Ilya Mandel , Yuri Levin

Neutron star mergers are believed to occur in accretion disks around supermassive black holes. Here we show that a putative jet launched from the merger of a binary neutron star (BNS) or a neutron star--black hole (NSBH) merger occurring at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-15 Jin-Ping Zhu , Bing Zhang , Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao

The electromagnetic emission and the afterglow observations of the binary neutron star merger event GW 170817A confirmed the association of the merger with a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) harboring a narrow ($5${\deg}-$10${\deg}) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Matteo Pais , Tsvi Piran , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata

Observations of gravitational waves and their electromagnetic counterparts may soon uncover the existence of coalescing compact binary systems formed by a stellar-mass black hole and a neutron star. These mergers result in a remnant black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-31 Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Francesco Pannarale , Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo

We simulate the influence of the energy that the merger process of two neutron stars (NSs) releases inside a red supergiant (RSG) star on the RSG envelope inner to the merger location. In the triple star common envelope evolution (CEE) that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Muhammad Akashi , Noam Soker

The formation and evolution of binary black holes (BH) is studied using the modern evolutionary scenario for very massive stars with high mass loss (Vanbeveren et al. 1998). Main sequence stars with masses $M>35 M_\odot$ are assumed to form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

We present post-Newtonian $N$-body simulations on mergers of accreting stellar-mass black holes (BHs), where such general relativistic effects as the pericenter shift and gravitational wave (GW) emission are taken into consideration. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Hiromichi Tagawa , Masayuki Umemura , Naoteru Gouda