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Gravitational waves from binary neutron star coalescences contain rich information about matter at supranuclear densities encoded by the neutron star equation of state. We can measure the equation of state by analyzing the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Colm Talbot , Vivien Raymond

The gravitational wave signals of black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binary systems have now been detected, and future detections might be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts. BHNS mergers involve much of the same physics as binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Matthew D. Duez

Gravitational wave sources with electromagnetic counterparts have highlighted the need for predictive, interpretable models linking the parameters of compact binary systems to post-merger remnants and mass outflows. In this work, we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 P. Darc , Clecio R. Bom , Charles Kilpatrick , Bernardo M. O. Fraga , Gabriel S. M. Teixeira

We present the first two-dimensional general relativistic (GR) simulations of stellar core collapse and explosion with the CoCoNuT hydrodynamics code in combination with the VERTEX solver for energy-dependent, three-flavor neutrino…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Mueller , H. -Th. Janka , A. Marek

We present numerical simulations of energetic flows propagating through the debris cloud of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger. Starting from the scale of the central engine, we use a moving-mesh hydrodynamics code to simulate the complete…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-10 Xiaoyi Xie , Jonathan Zrake , Andrew MacFadyen

We report on numerical results from an independent formalism to describe the quasi-equilibrium structure of nonsynchronous binary neutron stars in general relativity. This is an important independent test of controversial numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pedro Marronetti , Grant J. Mathews , James R. Wilson

The addition of nuclear and neutrino physics to general relativistic fluid codes allows for a more realistic description of hot nuclear matter in neutron star and black hole systems. This additional microphysics requires that each processor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-24 Matthew Anderson , Maciej Brodowicz , Hartmut Kaiser , Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach , Thomas Sterling

Equilibria of binary neutron stars in close circular orbits are computed numerically in a waveless formulation: The full Einstein-relativistic-Euler system is solved on an initial hypersurface to obtain an asymptotically flat form of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Koji Uryu , Francois Limousin , John L. Friedman , Eric Gourgoulhon , Masaru Shibata

Recent nonmagnetized studies of binary neutron star mergers have indicated the possibility of identifying equation of state features, such as a phase transition or a quark-hadron crossover, based on the frequency shift of the main peak in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-05 Antonios Tsokaros , Jamie Bamber , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present numerical relativity simulations of nine-orbit equal-mass binary neutron star covering the quasicircular late inspiral and merger. The extracted gravitational waveforms are analyzed for convergence and accuracy. Second order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-23 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Marcus Thierfelder , Bernd Bruegmann

Merging neutron stars are expected to produce hot, metastable remnants in rapid differential rotation, which subsequently cool and evolve into rigidly rotating neutron stars or collapse to black holes. Studying this metastable phase and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-19 Giovanni Camelio , Tim Dietrich , Stephan Rosswog , Brynmor Haskell

We reexamine the gravitational collapse of rotating neutron stars to black holes by new 3+1 numerical relativity simulations employing the Z4c formulation of Einstein equations, the moving puncture gauge conditions, and a conservative mesh…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-24 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

We construct closed-form gravitational waveforms (GWs) with tidal effects for the coalescence and merger of binary neutron stars. The method relies on a new set of eccentricity-reduced and high-resolution numerical relativity (NR)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-06 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Wolfgang Tichy

Binary neutron star mergers are thought to produce hot, rapidly rotating neutron stars with masses that can far exceed their Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff mass. The gravitational-wave emission from such remnants provides a unique opportunity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Spencer J. Magnall , Nilaksha Barman , Debarati Chatterjee , Paul D. Lasky , Simon Goode

To date, essentially all simulation codes that solve the full set of Einstein's equations are performed in the framework of Eulerian hydrodynamics. The exception is our recently developed Numerical Relativity code SPHINCS_BSSN which solves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-17 S. Rosswog , P. Diener , F. Torsello

Next-generation gravitational-wave instruments are expected to constrain the equation of state of dense nuclear matter by observing binaries involving neutron stars. We highlight a problematic systematic error in finite-temperature merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 F. Gittins , R. Matur , N. Andersson , I. Hawke

We review the current status and recent progress of microscopic many-body approaches and phenomenological models, which are employed to construct the equation of state of neutron stars. The equation of state is relevant for the description…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 G. F. Burgio , I. Vidana , H. -J. Schulze , J. -B. Wei

The dynamics and observable signatures of neutron star mergers are governed by physics under the most extreme conditions. They are particularly impacted by the high-density equation of state, which for the most sophisticated models is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Swapnil Shankar , Stephan Rosswog , Peter Diener

We present ${\tt NRPMw}$, an analytical model of gravitational-waves from neutron star merger remnants informed using 618 numerical relativity (NR) simulations. ${\tt NRPMw}$ is designed in the frequency domain using a combination of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-19 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Kabir Chakravarti , Alessandro Camilletti , Aviral Prakash , Albino Perego

Observations of massive ($M \approx 2.0~M_\odot$) neutron stars (NSs), PSRs J1614-2230 and J0348+0432, rule out most of the models of nucleon-hyperon matter employed in NS simulations. Here we construct three possible models of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 M. E. Gusakov , P. Haensel , E. M. Kantor