English
Related papers

Related papers: A low-mass binary neutron star: long-term ejecta e…

200 papers

We study mass loss from the outer Lagrange point (L2) in binary stellar mergers and their luminous transients by means of radiative hydrodynamical simulations. Previously, we showed that for binary mass ratios 0.06 < q < 0.8, synchronous L2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-28 Ondrej Pejcha , Brian D. Metzger , Kengo Tomida

Neutrinos emitted in the coalescence of two neutron stars affect the dynamics of the outflow ejecta and the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements. In this work, we analyze the neutrino emission properties and the conditions leading to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-16 Manu George , Meng-Ru Wu , Irene Tamborra , Ricard Ardevol-Pulpillo , Hans-Thomas Janka

We investigate the possible effects of the supernova ejecta hitting the companion star in iPTF 13bvn, focusing on the observable features when it becomes visible. iPTF 13bvn is a type Ib supernova that may become the first case that its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-02 Ryosuke Hirai , Shoichi Yamada

We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties measurable by gravitational wave detectors (chirp mass and mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Matt Nicholl , Ben Margalit , Patricia Schmidt , Graham P. Smith , Evan J. Ridley , James Nuttall

Coalescence of neutron stars gives rise to kilonova, thermal emission powered by radioactive decays of freshly synthesized r-process nuclei. Although observational properties are largely affected by bound-bound opacities of r-process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Masaomi Tanaka , Daiji Kato , Gediminas Gaigalas , Kyohei Kawaguchi

Neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers, detectable via their gravitational-wave (GW) emission, are expected to produce kilonovae (KNe). Four NSBH candidates have been identified and followed-up by more than fifty instruments since the start…

Binary neutron star mergers are expected to produce fast dynamical ejecta, with mildly relativistic velocities extending to $\beta=v/c>0.6$. In a preceding paper, we derived an analytic description of the time-dependent radio to X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Gilad Sadeh , Noya Linder , Eli Waxman

We follow the longterm evolution of the dynamic ejecta of neutron star mergers for up to 100 years and over a density range of roughly 40 orders of magnitude. We include the nuclear energy input from the freshly synthesized, radioactively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-05 S. Rosswog , O. Korobkin , A. Arcones , F. -K. Thielemann , T. Piran

High-velocity stellar collisions in galactic nuclei produce ejecta that generate potentially observable electromagnetic radiation, making them promising nuclear transients. However, the photometric and spectroscopic properties of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 Taeho Ryu , Luc Dessart

The majority of massive stars are formed in binary systems. It is hence reasonable to expect that most core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) take place in binaries and the existence of a companion star may leave some imprints in observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Ryosuke Hirai , Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada

The remnant of neutron star mergers is dense in neutrinos. By employing inputs from one hydrodynamical simulation of a binary neutron star merger remnant with a black hole of $3\ M_\odot$ in the center, dimensionless spin parameter $0.8$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Meng-Ru Wu , Irene Tamborra , Oliver Just , Hans-Thomas Janka

Binary neutron star merger (BNSM) ejecta are considered a primary repository of $r$-process nucleosynthesis and a source of the observed heavy-element abundances. We implement composition mixing into ray-by-ray radiation-hydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-03 Ruocheng Zhai , David Radice , Fabio Magistrelli , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Albino Perego

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

Mergers of double neutron stars (DNSs) could lead to the formation of a long-lived massive remnant NS, which has been previously suggested to explain the AT 2017gfo kilonova emission in the famous GW170817 event. For an NS-affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Guang-Lei Wu , Yun-Wei Yu , Jin-Ping Zhu

Numerical simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed in full general relativity incorporating both nucleonic and hyperonic finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino cooling. It is found that for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

A massive millisecond magnetar may survive a merger of a neutron star (NS) binary, which would continuously power the merger ejecta. We develop a generic dynamic model for the merger ejecta with energy injection from the central magnetar.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-17 Yun-Wei Yu , Bing Zhang , He Gao

The ongoing LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run O4 provides an opportunity to discover new multi-messenger events, including binary neutron star (BNS) mergers such as GW170817, and the highly anticipated first detection of a multi-messenger…

Neutrinos are copiously emitted by neutron star mergers, due to the high temperatures reached by dense matter during the merger and its aftermath. Neutrinos influence the merger dynamics and shape the properties of the ejecta, including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-30 Marco Cusinato , Federico Maria Guercilena , Albino Perego , Domenico Logoteta , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Stefano Ansoldi

Recent detections of kilonova-like emission following long-duration gamma-ray bursts GRB211211A and GRB230307A have been interpreted as originating from the merger of two neutron stars. In this work, we demonstrate that these observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Marko Ristić , Brandon L. Barker , Samuel Cupp , Axel Gross , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Oleg Korobkin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower

New viscous neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations are performed for accretion disks surrounding a spinning black hole with low mass $3M_\odot$ and dimensionless spin 0.8 or 0.6 in full general relativity, aiming at modeling the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-29 Sho Fujibayashi , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi