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We present fully general-relativistic three-dimensional numerical simulations of accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of white dwarfs (WDs). We evolve three different WD models (nonrotating, rotating at 80% and 99% of the Keplerian mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , David Radice , Cecilia Chirenti

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) from oxygen/neon/magnesium composition white dwarf (ONeMg WD) + stripped helium (He) star binaries is one promising channel to form peculiar neutron star objects. It has been discussed that the WD's magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Iminhaji Ablimit

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) orbiting helium white dwarfs (WDs) in eccentric orbits challenge the established binary evolution paradigm that predicts efficient orbital circularization during the mass transfer episode that spins up the pulsar.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 John Antoniadis

Recent calculations of accretion-induced collapse of an oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarf into a neutron star [Piro & Thompson 2014] allow for a potentially detectable transient electromagnetic signal. Motivated by these results, I present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-03 Damian Kwiatkowski

We present 2D multi-group flux-limited diffusion magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of the Accretion-Induced Collapse (AIC) of a rapidly-rotating white dwarf. We focus on the dynamical role of MHD processes after the formation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Luc Dessart , Adam Burrows , Eli Livne , Christian Ott

Eccentric millisecond pulsar + helium white dwarf (MSP + He WD) systems have attracted increasing attention, with the rotationally delayed accretion-induced collapse (RD-AIC) scenario proposed as a possible formation channel. Given the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiangcun Meng

We have carried out numerical evolutionary calculations of binary systems to investigate the formation of binary millisecond pulsars (pulsars with white dwarf companions). We apply the ``standard scenario'' in which the binary pulsars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Sutantyo , X. -D. Li

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) occurs when an O/Ne white dwarf (WD) grows to nearly the Chandrasekhar mass ($M_{\rm Ch}$), reaching central densities that trigger electron captures in the core. Using Modules for Experiments in Stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jared Brooks , Josiah Schwab , Lars Bildsten , Eliot Quataert , Bill Paxton

We report a detailed analysis of the orbital properties of binary millisecond pulsar (MSP) with a white dwarf (WD) companion. Positive correlations between the orbital period $P_{\rm b}$ and eccentricity $\epsilon$ are found in two classes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 C. Y. Hui , Kinwah Wu , Qin Han , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam

Accretion-induced collapse (AIC) or merger-induced collapse (MIC) of white dwarfs (WDs) in binary systems is an interesting path to neutron star (NS) and magnetar formation, alternative to stellar core collapse and NS mergers. Such events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Eirini Batziou , Robert Glas , H. -Thomas Janka , Jakob Ehring , Ernazar Abdikamalov , Oliver Just

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a kind of radio pulsars with short spin periods, playing a key role in many aspects of stellar astrophysics. In recent years, some more MSPs with wide orbits ($>30\,\rm d$) have been discovered, but their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Bo Wang , Dongdong Liu , Yunlang Guo , Hailiang Chen , Wenshi Tang , Luhan Li , Zhanwen Han

The standard formation theory of binary millisecond pulsars (BMSPs) predicts efficient orbital circularization due to tidal interaction during the previous mass transfer phase. Therefore, BMSPs are expected to have a circular orbit.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Wen-Shi Tang , Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li

We present the first seconds-long 2D general relativistic neutrino magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion-induced collapse (AIC) in rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized white dwarfs (WDs), which might originate as remnants of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tetyana Pitik , Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , David Radice

The accretion induced collapse (AIC) of a white dwarf into a neutron star has been invoked to explain gamma-ray bursts, Type Ia supernovae, and a number of problematic neutron star populations and specific binary systems. The ejecta from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. L. Fryer , W. Benz , M. Herant , S. A. Colgate

We present axisymmetric hydrodynamical simulations of accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of dark matter (DM) admixed rotating white dwarfs (WD) and their burst gravitational-wave (GW) signals. For initial WD models with the same central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Shuai Zha , Ming-Chung Chu , Shing-Chi Leung , Lap-Ming Lin

The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) of a rotating white dwarf (WD) offers a potential site of millisecond pulsars/magnetars, gamma-ray bursts, and r-process nucleosynthesis. We present three-dimensional general-relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

The accretion-induced collapse (AIC) scenario was proposed 40 years ago as an evolutionary end state of oxygen-neon white-dwarfs (ONe WDs), linking them to the formation of neutron star (NS) systems. However, there has been no direct…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Bo Wang , Dongdong Liu

It has long been expected that in some scenarios when a white dwarf (WD) grows to the Chandrasekhar limit, it can undergo an accretion induced collapse (AIC) to form a rapidly rotating neutron star. Nevertheless, the detection of such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Anthony L. Piro , S. R. Kulkarni

We examine the growing data set of binary millisecond pulsars that are thought to have a helium white dwarf companion. These systems are believed to form when a low- to intermediate-mass companion to a neutron star fills its Roche lobe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sarah L. Smedley , Christopher A. Tout , Lilia Ferrario , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe

According to the recycling scenario, millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have evolved from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). Their orbits are expected to be circular due to tidal interactions during the binary evolution, as observed in most of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Long Jiang , Xiang-Dong Li , Jishnu Dey , Mira Dey