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The first direct detection of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 and its electromagnetic (EM) counterpart open a new window for studying of multi-messenger astronomy. However, how to identify the remnant of binary neutron star (NS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Suo-Ning Wang , Hou-Jun Lü , Xiao-Xuan Liu , Jared Rice , Jia Ren , En-Wei Liang

Neutron star-black hole binaries are among the strongest sources of gravitational waves detectable by current observatories. They can also power bright electromagnetic signals (gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae), and may be a significant source…

The coalescence of binary neutron stars can yield the expulsion of a fast-moving, quasi-isotropic material, which may induce thermal radiation and give rise to kilonova emission. Moreover, the interaction between the ejected material and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Shao-Ze Li , Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Lin Lan

A long-lived magnetar, potentially originating from a binary neutron star system, has been proposed to explain the extended emission observed in certain short-duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs), and is posited as a potential central engine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-11 Yihan Wang , Bing Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

We present fully general-relativistic simulations of binary neutron star mergers with a temperature and composition dependent nuclear equation of state. We study the dynamical mass ejection from both quasi-circular and dynamical-capture…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 David Radice , Filippo Galeazzi , Jonas Lippuner , Luke F. Roberts , Christian D. Ott , Luciano Rezzolla

We study the long-term evolution of ejecta formed in a binary neutron star (BNS) merger that results in a long-lived remnant NS by performing a hydrodynamics simulation with the outflow data of a numerical relativity simulation as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka , Shinya Wanajo

We present 3D kilonova radiative transfer simulations for a series of binary neutron star merger models. The masses of the neutron stars are varied as well as the total mass of the system and two different equations of state were used (SFHO…

We reassess the capacity for multimessenger inference of AT2017gfo/GW170817 using both kilonova and gravitational wave emission within the context of a recent simulation-based surrogate model for kilonova emission. Independent of the…

Accurate numerical-relativity simulations are essential to study the rich phenomenology of binary neutron star systems. In this work, we focus on the material that is dynamically ejected during the merger process and on the kilonova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Anna Neuweiler , Tim Dietrich , Mattia Bulla , Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Stephan Rosswog , Maximiliano Ujevic

We investigate $r$-process nucleosynthesis and kilonova emission resulting from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers based on a three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulation of a hypermassive neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Sanjana Curtis , Philipp Mösta , Zhenyu Wu , David Radice , Luke Roberts , Giacomo Ricigliano , Albino Perego

Supernovae in binary star systems involve a hydrodynamical interaction between the ejecta and a binary companion. This collision results in shock heating and a modified density structure for the ejecta, both of which affect the light curve.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-29 Gabriel Kumar , Logan J. Prust , Lars Bildsten

In the standard supernova picture, type Ib/c and type II supernovae are powered by the potential energy released in the collapse of the core of a massive star. In studying supernovae, we primarily focus on the ejecta that makes it beyond…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Chris L. Fryer

We study the observational signatures from the interactions between a newly born neutron star and a companion star that is impacted by the supernova ejecta. We focus on the cases with bound post-explosion orbits, where the neutron star may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Wenbin Lu , Savannah Cary , Daichi Tsuna

A long-lived central engine embedded in expanding supernova ejecta can alter the dynamics and observational signatures of the event, producing an unusually luminous, energetic, and/or rapidly-evolving transient. We use two-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Kiran Eiden , Daniel Kasen

We study the post-merger mass ejection of low-mass binary neutron stars (NSs) with the system mass of $2.5\, M_\odot$, and subsequent nucleosynthesis by performing general-relativistic, neutrino-radiation viscous-hydrodynamics simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Sho Fujibayashi , Shinya Wanajo , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutaro Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We perform some experimental simulations in spherical symmetry and axisymmetry to understand the post-shock-revival evolution of core-collapse supernovae. Assuming that the stalled shock wave is relaunched by neutrino heating and employing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Yu Yamamoto , Shin-ichiro Fujimoto , Hiroki Nagakura , Shoichi Yamada

Depending upon the properties of their compact remnants and the physics included in the models, simulations of neutron star mergers can produce a broad range of ejecta properties. The characteristics of this ejecta, in turn, define the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 R. T. Wollaeger , C. L. Fryer , E. A. Chase , C. J. Fontes , M. Ristic , A. L. Hungerford , O. Korobkin , R. O'Shaughnessy , A. M. Herring

A merger of binary neutron stars creates heavy unstable elements whose radioactive decay produces a thermal emission known as a kilonova. In this paper, we predict the photometric and polarimetric behaviour of this emission by performing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Manisha Shrestha , Mattia Bulla , Lorenzo Nativi , Ivan Markin , Stephan Rosswog , Tim Dietrich

A macronova (or kilonova) was observed as an infrared excess several days after short gamma-ray burst, GRB 130603B. Although the $r$-process radioactivity is widely discussed as an energy source, it requires huge mass of ejecta from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Shota Kisaka , Kunihito Ioka , Ehud Nakar