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Long-term neutrino-radiation resistive-magnetohydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for a system composed of a massive neutron star and a torus formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. The simulation…

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Bearing in mind the application to the outer crust of the neutron stars (NSs), we investigate the magnetic field decay by means of the fully relativistic Particle-In-Cell simulations. Numerical computations are carried out in 2-dimensions,…

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Neutrino interactions play a central role in transport and flavor evolution in the ejecta of binary neutron star mergers. Simulations suggest that neutron star mergers may produce magnetic fields as strong as $10^{17}$ G, but computational…

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Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

We consider the evolution of magnetic fields under the influence of Hall drift and Ohmic decay. The governing equation is solved numerically, in a spherical shell with r_i/r_o = 0.75. Starting with simple free decay modes as initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 R. Hollerbach , G. Rüdiger

In magnetar crusts, magnetic fields are sufficiently strong to confine electrons into a small to moderate number of quantized Landau levels. This can have a dramatic effect on the crust's thermodynamic properties, generating field-dependent…

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Aims. We investigated plasma turbulence in the context of solar wind. We concentrated on properties of ideal second-order magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) and Hall MHD invariants. Methods. We studied the results of a two-dimensional hybrid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Petr Hellinger , Victor Montagud-Camps

Our aim is to characterize the effects of the local magnetic fields in quiet regions of stellar atmospheres. We compute magneto-hydrodynamic and purely hydrodynamic simulations of G2V, K0V and M2V star. The magnetic simulations are started…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Andrea Perdomo García , Nikola Vitas , Elena Khomenko , Manuel Collados

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

Hyper-accreting discs occur in compact-object mergers and collapsars, and may power gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We calculate the microscopic viscosity and resistivity of plasma in these discs, and discuss the implications for their global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena M. Rossi , Philip J. Armitage , Kristen Menou

Remnant accretion disks formed in compact object mergers are an important ingredient in the understanding of electromagnetic afterglows of multi-messenger gravitational-wave events. Due to magnetically and neutrino driven winds, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Elias R. Most , L. Jens Papenfort , Samuel D. Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

We study the non--linear evolution of magnetic fields in neutron star crusts with special attention to the influence of the Hall drift. Our goal is to understand the conditions for fast dissipation due to the Hall term in the induction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. A. Pons , U. Geppert

Binary neutron star mergers play an important role in nuclear astrophysics: their gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals carry information about the equation of state of cold matter above nuclear saturation density, and they may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-24 Francois Foucart , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Matthew D. Duez , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Binary neutron star mergers used to be the most promising candidate for gravitational waves for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, such as advanced LIGO and advanced VIRGO. This was proved by the detection of gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Kenta Kiuchi

Matter in neutron star collisions can reach densities up to few times the nuclear saturation threshold and temperatures up to one hundred MeV. Understanding the structure and composition of such matter requires many-body nonperturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Albino Perego , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

We examine electron-transport coefficients in magnetized hot and dense electron-ion plasma relevant in binary neutron star merger simulation. We calculate electrical and thermal conductivities in low density, high temperature, highly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 Sreemoyee Sarkar , Souvik Priyam Adhya

Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

The merger of binary neutron stars, or of a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole, can result in the formation of a massive rotating torus around a spinning black hole. In addition to providing collimating media for gamma-ray burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

The merger of neutron stars drives a relativistic jet which can be observed as a short gamma-ray burst. A strong large-scale magnetic field is necessary to launch the relativistic jet. However, the magnetohydrodynamical mechanism to build…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-19 Kenta Kiuchi , Alexis Reboul-Salze , Masaru Shibata , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We consider the effect of Hall-drift on the evolution of magnetic fields in neutorn star crusts using a finite difference code. Previously, most studies have focused on the situation where the ohmic term dominates the evolution. Here, we…

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