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We demonstrate by a large set of merger simulations for symmetric binary neutron stars (NSs) that there is a tight correlation between the frequency peak of the postmerger gravitational-wave (GW) emission and the physical properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Bauswein , H. -Th. Janka

Using our new Post-Newtonian SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) code, we study the final coalescence and merging of neutron star (NS) binaries. We vary the stiffness of the equation of state (EOS) as well as the initial binary mass ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio , Justin B. Manor

The oscillation modes of neutron star (NS) merger remnants, as encoded by the kHz postmerger gravitational wave (GW) signal, hold great potential for constraining the as-yet undetermined equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Jamie Bamber , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

Simulations of binary neutron stars have seen great advances in terms of physical detail and numerical quality. However, the spin of the neutron stars, one of the simplest global parameters of binaries, remains mostly unstudied. We present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tim Dietrich , Wolfgang Tichy , Bernd Bruegmann

We present new (3+1) dimensional numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star (BNS) mergers that take into account the NS spins. We consider different spin configurations, aligned or antialigned to the orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy

We present results from the first large parameter study of neutron star mergers using fully general relativistic simulations with finite-temperature microphysical equations of state and neutrino cooling. We consider equal and unequal-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice , Christian D. Ott , Luke F. Roberts , Philipp Moesta , Filippo Galeazzi

Almost a hundred compact binary mergers have been detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration in the past few years providing us with a significant amount of new information on black holes and neutron stars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Kutay A. Çokluk , Kadri Yakut , Bruno Giacomazzo

We performed 3D numerical simulations of the merger of equal-mass binary neutron stars in full general relativity using a new large scale supercomputer. We take the typical grid size as (505,505,253) for (x,y,z) and the maximum grid size as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating both nucleonic and hyperonic finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling. It is found that for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

General relativistic simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed as an extension of a previous work\cite{Shibata:2006nm}. We prepare binary neutron stars with a large initial orbital separation and employ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

We present the first direct comparison of numerical simulations of neutron star-black hole and black hole-black hole mergers in full general relativity. We focus on a configuration with non spinning objects and within the most likely range…

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

There is a high level of interest in black hole-neutron star binaries, not only because their mergers may be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, but also because of the possibility that they could explain a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

Using an effective Lagrangian model inspired by Takami et al. 2015 we qualitatively study the early post-merger of a nearly symmetric binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger event with a non-vanishing ambient fraction of dark matter. For this we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 D. Suárez-Fontanella , D. Barba-González , C. Albertus , M. Ángeles Pérez-García

We perform new longterm (15-16 orbits) simulations of coalescing binary neutron stars in numerical relativity using an updated Einstein's equation solver, employing low-eccentricity initial data, and modeling the neutron stars by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-01 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata

We analyze the gravitational wave (GW) emission from our recently published set of relativistic neutron star (NS) merger simulations and determine characteristic signal features that allow one to link GW measurements to the properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Oechslin , H. -T. Janka

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

Neutron star binaries offer a rich phenomenology in terms of gravitational waves and merger remnants. However, most general relativistic studies have been performed for nearly circular binaries, with the exception of head-on collisions. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-10 Roman Gold , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Marcus Thierfelder , Bernd Bruegmann , Frans Pretorius