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We investigate the kilonova emission resulting from outflows produced in a three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) remnant. We map the outflows into the FLASH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Lieke Sippens Groenewegen , Sanjana Curtis , Philipp Mösta , Daniel Kasen , Daniel Brethauer

We present the results of 2.5-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the magnetic interaction between a weakly magnetized neutron star and its accretion disk. General relativistic effects are simulated by using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yoshiaki Kato , Mitsuru Hayashi , Ryoji Matsumoto

The gravitational wave event from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and the following multi-messenger observations present strong evidence for i) merger ejecta expanding with substantial velocities and ii) a relativistic jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Hamid Hamidani , Kenta Kiuchi , Kunihito Ioka

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the impact of different treatment of microphysics and grid resolution in binary neutron star mergers. We consider series of simulations at multiple resolutions comparing hydrodynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice , Albino Perego

Neutron-star mergers can launch mildly relativistic to moderately relativistic outflows whose interaction with the ejecta can reshape kilonova emission. We parametrically study magnetically powered outbursts from long-lived merger remnants,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Yuan Feng , Oleg Korobkin , Elias R. Most , Ananda F. Smith , Christopher J. Fontes

The binary neutron star (BNS) merger event GW170817 clearly shows that a BNS merger launches a short Gamma-Ray Burst (sGRB) jet. Unlike collapsars, where the ambient medium is static, in BNS mergers the jet propagates through the merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Hamid Hamidani , Kunihito Ioka

As a follow-up study of our previous work, numerical-relativity simulations for seconds-long black hole-neutron star mergers are performed for a variety of setups. Irrespective of the initial and symmetry conditions, we find qualitatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We present time-dependent axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interaction of a relativistic magnetized wind produced by a proto-magnetar with a surrounding stellar envelope, in the first $\sim 10$ seconds after core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , J. Arons , B. D. Metzger , Todd A. Thompson

Long-lived massive magnetars are expected to be remnants of some binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. In this paper, we argue that the magnetic powered flaring activities of these merged magnetars would occur dominantly in their early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Shu-Xu Yi , Zhen Zhang , Xilu Wang

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity (GRMHD) of a binary black hole-neutron star on a quasicircular orbit that undergoes merger. The binary mass ratio is 3:1, the black hole initial spin parameter $a/m=0.75$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vasileios Paschalidis , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

Three-dimensional simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) are performed in the framework of full general relativity. We pay particular attention to the black hole (BH) formation case and to the resulting mass of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The remnant of a neutron star binary coalescence is expected to be temporarily stabilised against gravitational collapse by its differential rotation. We explore the possibility of dynamo activity in this remnant and assess the potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stephan Rosswog , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are amongst promising candidates for the joint detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals with gravitational waves (GWs) and are expected to be detected in the near future. Here we study the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , George Smoot

Binary neutron star mergers can form short-lived magnetar-like remnants whose magnetically dominated polar towers reach $B\sim10^{15}$--$10^{16}\,\mathrm{G}$, but the microphysical composition of these outflows remains poorly understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Rostom Mbarek , Jiaxi Wu , Elias R. Most

We present 3D general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations of two asymmetric binary neutron star mergers producing long-lived neutron stars remnants and spanning a fraction of their cooling time scale. The mergers are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Fabio Magistrelli , Maximilian Jacobi , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego , David Radice

We consider electromagnetic interaction and precursor emission of merging neutron stars. Orbital motion of the magnetized neutron stars may revive pair production within the common magnetosphere years before the merger, igniting pulsar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-06 Maxim Lyutikov

A newborn, rapidly rotating magnetar may form in a binary neutron star merger and drive a Poynting-flux-dominated relativistic jet. As the jet propagates outward, a forward shock (FS) and a reverse shock (RS) are formed, inflating a pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yun-Peng Li , Da-Bin Lin , Ning-Yuan Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Neutron star mergers are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for advanced ground-based detectors. These mergers are also expected to power bright electromagnetic signals, in the form of short gamma-ray bursts,…

We present results of three-dimensional (3D), radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations of core-collapse supernovae in full general relativity (GR) with spectral neutrino transport. In order to study the effects of progenitor's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Takami Kuroda , Almudena Arcones , Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We find that a few $10^{-3}\, M_\odot$ of material are ejected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-03 David Radice , Albino Perego , Kenta Hotokezaka , Steven A. Fromm , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Luke F. Roberts