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Outflows launched from a remnant disc of compact binary merger may have essential contribution to the kilonova emission. Numerical calculations are conducted in this work to study the structure of accretion flows and outflows. By the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Tuan Yi , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Rajiv Kumar , Hui-Jun Mu , Cui-Ying Song

We perform high-resolution three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with neutrino transport of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers resulting in a long-lived remnant neutron star, with properties typical of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-11 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel

Along with binary neutron star mergers, the in-spiral and merger of a black hole and a neutron star is a predicted site of $r$-process nucleosynthesis and associated kilonovae. For the right mass ratio, very large amounts of neutron rich…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 Sanjana Curtis , Jonah M. Miller , Carla Frohlich , Trevor Sprouse , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Matthew Mumpower

The kilonova (KN) associated with the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 is the only known electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source. Here we produce a sequence of radiative transfer models (using $\textsc{tardis}$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 J. H. Gillanders , S. J. Smartt , S. A. Sim , A. Bauswein , S. Goriely

Kilonovae, one source of electromagnetic emission associated with neutron star mergers, are powered by the decay of radioactive isotopes in the neutron-rich merger ejecta. Models for kilonova emission consistent with the electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-06 M. Ristic , E. M. Holmbeck , R. Wollaeger , O. Korobkin , E. Champion , R. O'Shaughnessy , C. L. Fryer , C. J. Fontes , M. R. Mumpower , T. M. Sprouse

We argue that the kilonova/macronova associated with the gravitational-wave event GW190425 could have been bright enough to be detected if it was caused by the merger of a low-mass black hole and a neutron star. Although tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-11 Koutarou Kyutoku , Sho Fujibayashi , Kota Hayashi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka

We investigate the nucleosynthesis and kilonova properties of binary neutron-star (NS) merger models which lead to intermediate remnant lifetimes of ~0.1-1seconds until black-hole (BH) formation and describe all components of material…

Fast material ejected dynamically over $<10$ ms during the merger of a binary neutron-star (BNS) system can give rise to distinctive electromagnetic counterparts to the system's gravitational-wave emission that can serve as a "smoking gun"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel

The accretion disk formed after a neutron star merger is an important contributor to the total ejecta from the merger, and hence to the kilonova and the $r$-process yields of each event. Axisymmetric viscous hydrodynamic simulations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Rodrigo Fernández , Oliver Just , Zewei Xiong , Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo

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

The observation of a radioactively-powered kilonova associated with the first binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected in gravitational waves proved that these events are ideal sites for the production of heavy r-process elements. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Riccardo Ciolfi , Jay Vijay Kalinani

Long-term viscous neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive disk surrounding spinning stellar-mass black holes with mass $M_{\rm BH}=4$, $6$, and $10M_\odot$ and initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-04 Sho Fujibayashi , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We study long-term evolution of the matter ejected in a black-hole neutron-star (BH-NS) merger employing the results of a long-term numerical-relativity simulation and nucleosynthesis calculation, in which both dynamical and post-merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Nanae Domoto , Sho Fujibayashi , Hamid Hamidani , Kota Hayashi , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka , Shinya Wanajo

We study mass ejection from accretion disks formed in the merger of a white dwarf with a neutron star or black hole. These disks are mostly radiatively-inefficient and support nuclear fusion reactions, with ensuing outflows and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Rodrigo Fernández , Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

Several gamma ray bursts have recently been associated with a kilonova emission. We study the mechanisms which could account for this effect, by means of radioactive decay of elements synthesized in accretion disk wind. We model the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Agnieszka Janiuk , Joseph Saji , Gerardo Urrutia

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

Merging binaries consisting of two neutron stars (NSs) or an NS and a stellar-mass black hole typically form a massive accretion torus around the remnant black hole or long-lived NS. Outflows from these neutrino-cooled accretion disks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

We present optical and ultraviolet spectra of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave (GW) source, the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Spectra were obtained nightly between 1.5 and 9.5 days post-merger, using the…

We study mass ejection from a binary neutron star merger producing a long-lived massive neutron star remnant with general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations. In addition to outflows generated by shocks and tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi