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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…

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We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamics of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers from the late stage of the inspiral process up to $\sim 20$ ms after the system has merged, either to form a hyper-massive neutron star (NS) or a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Francesco Maione , Frank Löffler

Transitions of nuclear compositions in the crust of a neutron star induced by stellar spin-down are evaluated at zero temperature. We construct a compressible liquid-drop model for the energy of nuclei immersed in a neutron gas, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

In numerical simulations of binary neutron star systems, the equation of state of the dense neutron star matter is an important factor in determining both the physical realism and the numerical accuracy of the simulations. Some equations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-10 Alexander Knight , Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Mike Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

The detection of gravitational waves emitted during a neutron star - black hole merger and the associated electromagnetic counterpart will provide a wealth of information about stellar evolution nuclear matter, and General Relativity. While…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-16 Manuel Arca Sedda

We show how observations of gravitational waves from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers over the next few years can be combined with insights from nuclear physics to obtain useful constraints on the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-23 Michael McNeil Forbes , Sukanta Bose , Sanjay Reddy , Dake Zhou , Arunava Mukherjee , Soumi De

The remnants of binary neutron star mergers are expected to be massive, rapidly rotating stars whose oscillations produce gravitational waves in the kilohertz band. The degree of differential rotation and the rotation profiles strongly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Santiago Jaraba , Jérôme Novak , Micaela Oertel

Glitches in neutron stars originate from the sudden transfer of angular momentum between superfluid components and the observable crust. By modeling this glitch dynamics, including vortex motion, mutual friction, and angular momentum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-24 Zhonghao Tu , Ang Li

Neutron star mergers are amongst the most promising sources for the joint detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals. They are also potential sites for the production of r-process elements and probes of the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Samantha Rath , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

It has been estimated that a significant proportion of binary neutron star merger events produce long-lived massive remnants supported by differential rotation and subject to rotational instabilities. To examine formation and oscillation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-08 Xuefeng Zhang , Zhoujian Cao

Properties, structure, and thermal evolution of neutron stars are determined by the equation of state of stellar matter. Recent data on isospin-diffusion and isoscaling in heavy-ion collisions at intermediate energies as well as the size of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Plamen G. Krastev , Bao-An Li , Aaron Worley

The merger of two neutron stars has been proposed as a source of gamma-ray bursts, r-process elements, and detectable gravitational waves. Extracting information from observations of these phenomena requires fully relativistic simulations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Landry , Saul A. Teukolsky

Neutron star (NS) mergers provide us with information rich in physics using multi-messenger astrophysical observations. One of the probable remnants of such a merger is a differentially rotating hot hypermassive neutron star. The stability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-19 Krishna Prakash Nunna , Sarmistha Banik , Debarati Chatterjee

We present a general formalism to treat slowly rotating general relativistic superfluid neutron stars. As a first approximation, their matter content can be described in terms of a two-fluid model, where one fluid is the neutron superfluid,…

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We define `astromaterial science' as the study of materials in astronomical objects that are qualitatively denser than materials on earth. Astromaterials can have unique properties related to their large density, though they may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 M. E. Caplan , C. J. Horowitz

We study breaking stress of deformed Coulomb crystals in a neutron star crust, taking into account electron plasma screening of ion-ion interaction; calculated breaking stress is fitted as a function of electron screening parameter. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-25 A. A. Kozhberov , D. G. Yakovlev

High-accuracy numerical simulations of merging neutron stars play an important role in testing and calibrating the waveform models used by gravitational wave observatories. Obtaining high-accuracy waveforms at a reasonable computational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Alana Gudinas , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

As gravitational wave instrumentation becomes more sensitive, it is interesting to speculate about subtle effects that could be analyzed using upcoming generations of detectors. One such effect that has great potential for revealing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Cecilia Chirenti , Roman Gold , M. Coleman Miller

Using a new numerical code with non-uniform adapted mesh, we study the changes produced in the global properties of neutron stars by the motion of matter in crust region during post-glitch epoch. Our numerical analysis shows that these…

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