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Following the historical observation of GW170817 and its electromagnetic follow-up, new neutron star merger afterglows are expected to be observed as counterparts to gravitational wave signals during the next science runs of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Raphaël Duque , Robert Mochkovitch , Frédéric Daigne

Neutron star observations, including direct mass and radius measurements as well as the analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted by stellar mergers, provide valuable and unique insights into the properties of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Aleksi Vuorinen

A major boost in the understanding of the universe was given by the revelation of the first coalescence event of two neutron stars (GW170817) and the observation of the same event across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. With 3rd…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Elena Cuoco , Barbara Patricelli , Alberto Iess , Filip Morawski

Neutron star mergers have been long considered as promising sites of heavy $r$-process nucleosynthesis. We overview observational evidence supporting this scenario including: the total amount of $r$-process elements in the Galaxy, extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Kenta Hotokezaka , Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran

This brief review is based on a lecture given by one of the authors at the international youth conference AYSS-2023. It is devoted to multimessenger astronomy, which studies astrophysical objects and phenomena using various particles and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 V. Rozhkov , S. Troitsky

The existence of neutron star mergers has been supported since the discovery of the binary pulsar and the observation of its orbital energy loss, consistent with General Relativity. They are considered nucleosynthesis sites of the rapid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-09 F. -K. Thielemann , M. Eichler , I. V. Panov , B. Wehmeyer

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

The historical detection of gravitational waves emitted from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Since then, many other significant discoveries -- both on heaven and earth -- are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 J. Piekarewicz

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

Binary neutron star mergers provide a unique laboratory for studying matter under conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial experiments. They probe dense matter at supranuclear density, finite temperature, rapid rotation, strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Armen Sedrakian

Multi-messenger astronomy has experienced an explosive development in the past few years. While not being a particularly young field, it has recently attracted a lot of attention by several major discoveries and unprecedented observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-28 Kathrin Egberts

Axions are increasingly favoured as a candidate particle for the dark matter in galaxies, since they satisfy the observational requirements for cold dark matter and are theoretically well motivated. Fluctuations in the axion field give rise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Tim Dietrich , Francesca Day , Katy Clough , Michael Coughlin , Jens Niemeyer

We investigate pre-merger coherent radio emission from neutron star mergers arising due to the magnetospheric interaction between compact objects. We consider two plausible radiation mechanisms, and show that if one neutron star has a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 A. J. Cooper , O. Gupta , Z. Wadiasingh , R. A. M. J. Wijers , O. M. Boersma , I. Andreoni , A. Rowlinson , K. Gourdji

Interpreting high-energy, astrophysical phenomena, such as supernova explosions or neutron-star collisions, requires a robust understanding of matter at supranuclear densities. However, our knowledge about dense matter explored in the cores…

Multimessenger observations may hold the key to learn about the most energetic sources in the universe. The recent construction of large scale observatories opened new possibilities in testing non thermal cosmic processes with alternative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Dafne Guetta

Neutron stars have long been regarded as extra-terrestrial laboratories from which we can learn about extreme energy density matter at low temperatures. In this article, I highlight some of the recent advances made in astrophysical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Madappa Prakash

Neutron stars provide a natural laboratory for studying the properties of dense nuclear matter under extreme conditions. In this proceeding, we review our current understanding of dense isospin symmetric and asymmetric matter and neutron…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Rajesh Kumar , Veronica Dexheimer , Johannes Jahan

Neutron star mergers are very violent events involving extreme physical processes: dynamic, strong-field gravity, large magnetic field, very hot, dense matter, and the copious production of neutrinos. Accurate modeling of such a system and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 C. Palenzuela , S. L. Liebling , B. Miñano

Mergers of neutron stars (NS+NS) or neutron stars and stellar mass black holes (NS+BS) eject a small fraction of matter with a sub-relativistic velocity. Upon rapid decompression nuclear density medium condenses into neutron rich nuclei,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Li-Xin Li , Bohdan Paczyński

The end state of binary-neutron-star (BNS) mergers can manifest conditions to produce high-energy neutrinos. Inspired by the event GW170817, detected in gravitational waves and in optical/infrared emission, we investigate a scenario in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Simone Rossoni , Denise Boncioli , Günter Sigl