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Large-scale magnetic fields are relevant for a number of dynamical processes in accretion disks, including driving turbulence, reconnection events, and launching outflows. Numerical simulations have indicated that the initial strengths and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Hongzhe Zhou , Yosuke Mizuno , Zhenyu Zhu

We study the merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries with a variety of BH spins aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum, and with the mass ratio in the range MBH/MNS = 2--5, where MBH and MNS are the mass of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

Neutrino interactions play a central role in transport and flavor evolution in the ejecta of binary neutron star mergers. Simulations suggest that neutron star mergers may produce magnetic fields as strong as $10^{17}$ G, but computational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-10 Mia Kumamoto , Catherine Welch

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

Aims. A realistic model of magnetic linkage between a central object and its accretion disk is a prerequisite for understanding the spin history of stars and stellar remnants. To this end, we aim to provide an analytic model in agreement…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Miljenko Čemeljić , Włodek Kluźniak , Varadarajan Parthasarathy

We present results from fully general relativistic (GR), three-dimensional (3D), neutrino-radiation magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of stellar core collapse of a 20 M$_\odot$ star with spectral neutrino transport. Our focus is to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-05 Shota Shibagaki , Takami Kuroda , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Tobias Fischer

The threshold mass for prompt collapse in binary neutron star mergers was empirically found to depend on the stellar properties of the maximum-mass non-rotating neutron star model. Here we present a semi-analytic derivation of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas

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

Binary neutron star mergers can produce extreme magnetic fields, some of which can lead to strong magnetar-like remnants. While strong magnetic fields have been shown to affect the dynamics of outflows and angular momentum transport in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Elias R. Most , Jeffrey Peterson , Luigi Scurto , Helena Pais , Veronica Dexheimer

We perform uniformly sampled large-scale cosmological simulations including magnetic fields with the moving mesh code AREPO. We run two sets of MHD simulations: one including adiabatic gas physics only; the other featuring the fiducial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Federico Marinacci , Mark Vogelsberger , Philip Mocz , Ruediger Pakmor

We perform 3D numerical simulations for merger of equal mass binary neutron stars in full general relativity preparing irrotational binary neutron stars in a quasiequilibrium state as initial conditions. Simulations have been carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

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

The orbital decay of binary systems is a critical process for understanding the evolution of massive binary black holes (MBBHs) and binary star formation. Performing high-resolution three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Tomoaki Matsumoto , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohei Inayoshi

We study out-of-thermodynamic equilibrium effects in neutron star mergers with 3D general-relativistic neutrino-radiation large-eddy simulations. During merger, the cores of the neutron stars remain cold ($T \sim$ a few MeV) and out of…

We present general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of merging equal-mass, spinning black holes embedded in an equatorial thin slab of magnetized gas. We evolve black holes either non-spinning, with spins aligned to the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-31 Giacomo Fedrigo , Federico Cattorini , Bruno Giacomazzo , Monica Colpi

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

Using high-resolution AthenaK simulations of a twisted toroidal flux tube, we study the flux emergence of magnetic structures in the shear layer of a hot massive neutron star typical of a binary neutron star remnant. High-resolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-26 Jacob Fields , David Radice , Peter Hammond

We review the present theoretical and numerical understanding of magnetic field amplification in cosmic large-scale structure, on length scales of galaxy clusters and beyond. Structure formation drives compression and turbulence, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 J. Donnert , F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , J. ZuHone

Cosmological MHD simulations of galaxy cluster formation show a significant amplification of seed magnetic fields. We developed a novel method to decompose cluster magnetized turbulence into modes and showed that the fraction of the fast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrey Beresnyak , Hao Xu , Hui Li , Reinhard Schlickeiser

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is of key importance in many high-energy astrophysical systems, where MHD instabilities can amplify local magnetic field over very short time scales. Specifically, the magnetorotational instability (MRI)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-30 Philipp Mösta , Christian D. Ott , David Radice , Luke F. Roberts , Erik Schnetter , Roland Haas