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Binary neutron-star (BNS) mergers are accompanied by multi-messenger emissions, including gravitational wave (GW), neutrino, and electromagnetic signals. Some fraction of BNS mergers may result in a rapidly spinning magnetar as a remnant,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura , Brian D. Metzger

We present radiative transfer simulations for blue kilonovae hours after neutron star (NS) mergers by performing detailed opacity calculations for the first time. We calculate atomic structures and opacities of highly ionized elements (up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Smaranika Banerjee , Masaomi Tanaka , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Daiji Kato , Gediminas Gaigalas

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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious bright millisecond-duration radio bursts at cosmological distances. While young magnetars have been put forward as the leading source candidate, recent observations suggest there may be multiple FRB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-02 Alexandra Moroianu , Linqing Wen , Clancy W. James , Shunke Ai , Manoj Kovalam , Fiona Panther , Bing Zhang

The recent detections of binary stellar mass black hole mergers by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations suggest that such mergers are common occurrences. Galaxy mergers further indicate that supermassive black holes in centers of galaxies also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Ilja Jaroschewski , Julia Becker Tjus , Peter L. Biermann

Short gamma-ray bursts result from mergers of two neutron stars or from collapsars, but probably at a smaller rate. In the first case, a kilonova occurs while in the second case a Type Ic supernova is expected. } {Even if future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-29 Nidhal Guessoum , Hannachi Zitouni , Robert Mochkovitch

Accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising sites for mergers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) detectable via gravitational waves (GWs). These environments facilitate both in-situ formation and dynamical capture of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Hiromichi Tagawa , Zoltán Haiman , Shigeo S. Kimura , Hassen M. Yesuf , Hengxiao Guo

We performed Population III (Pop III) binary evolution by using population synthesis simulations for seven different models. We found that Pop III binaries tend to be binary black holes (BBHs) with chirp mass $M_{\rm chirp} \sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Tomoya Kinugawa , Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

The merger of binary neutron star (BNS) systems are predicted to be progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs); the definitive probe of this association came with the recent detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from a BNS merger by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Barbara Patricelli , Antonio Stamerra , Massimiliano Razzano , Elena Pian , Giancarlo Cella

Mergers of compact objects are considered prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) and will soon be targets of GW observatories such as the Advanced-LIGO, VIRGO etc. Finding electromagnetic counterparts of these GW sources will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-15 Atish Kamble , David L. A. Kaplan

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a future third-generation gravitational wave detector will have detection sensitivity for gravitational wave signals down to 1 Hz. This improved low-frequency sensitivity of the ET will allow the observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-19 Neha Singh , Tomasz Bulik

Binary black hole (BBH) mergers provide a prime source for current and future interferometric GW observatories. Massive BBH mergers may often take place in plasma-rich environments, leading to the exciting possibility of a concurrent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-18 Bernard J. Kelly , John G. Baker , Zachariah B. Etienne , Bruno Giacomazzo , Jeremy Schnittman

The joint detection of GW 170817 and GRB 170817A indicated that at least a fraction of short gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) originate from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. One possible remnant of a BNS merger is a rapidly rotating, strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Bing Zhang

Kilonovae produced by mergers of binary neutron stars (BNSs) are important transient events to be detected by time domain surveys with the alerts from the ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The observational properties of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Chunyang Zhao , Youjun Lu , Qingbo Chu , Wen Zhao

Short gamma-ray bursts are believed to originate from the merger of two compact objects. If this scenario is correct, these bursts will be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves, detectable by current or planned GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Dietz

The use of quasicircular waveforms in matched-filter analyses of signals from eccentric binary neutron star mergers can lead to biases in the source's parameter estimation. We demonstrate that significant biases can be present already for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Giulia Huez , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Matteo Breschi , Rossella Gamba

The duration of orbital decay induced by gravitational waves (GWs) is often the bottleneck of the evolutionary phases going from star formation to a merger. We show here that kicks imparted to the newly born compact object during the second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran

Recent observations indicate that in a large fraction of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers a long-lived neutron star (NS) may be formed rather than a black hole. Unambiguous electromagnetic (EM) signatures of such a scenario would strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi

This report is divided into three main parts: 1. The first two chapters discuss the emission of Short GRB (SGRB) from binary mergers surrounded by a strong magnetic field. By introducing our model, we investigated the physics of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Shad Ali

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can result in the formation of long-lived magnetar remnants which can enhance neutrino and electromagnetic (EM) emissions. In this work, we study the resulting multi-wavelength EM emissions and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura