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The recent discovery of the neutron star merger and multi-messenger event GW170817 (also known as kilonova GRB170817A) provides an unprecedented laboratory in which to study these mysterious objects, as well as an opportunity to test…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-01 Samar Safi-Harb , Neil Doerksen , Adam Rogers , Chris L. Fryer

We present detailed spectroscopic analysis of the extraordinarily fast-evolving transient AT2018kzr. The transient's observed lightcurve showed a rapid decline rate, comparable to the kilonova AT2017gfo. We calculate a self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-27 James H. Gillanders , Stuart A. Sim , Stephen J. Smartt

Recent detections of kilonova-like emission following long-duration gamma-ray bursts GRB211211A and GRB230307A have been interpreted as originating from the merger of two neutron stars. In this work, we demonstrate that these observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Marko Ristić , Brandon L. Barker , Samuel Cupp , Axel Gross , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Oleg Korobkin , Jonah M. Miller , Matthew R. Mumpower

We perform three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to model the jet break-out from the ejecta expected to be produced in a binary neutron-star merger. The structure of the relativistic outflow from the 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-01 Antonios Nathanail , Ramandeep Gill , Oliver Porth , Christian M. Fromm , Luciano Rezzolla

The electromagnetic transient following a binary neutron star merger is known as a kilonova (KN). Owing to rapid expansion velocities and small ejecta masses, KNe rapidly transition into the Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (NLTE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Quentin Pognan , Jon Grumer , Anders Jerkstrand , Shinya Wanajo

Material expelled from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can harbor r-process nucleosynthesis and power a Kilonova (KN), both intimately related to the astrophysical conditions of the ejection. In turn such conditions indirectly depend on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Giacomo Ricigliano , Maximilian Jacobi , Almudena Arcones

We perform high-resolution three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with neutrino transport of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers resulting in a long-lived remnant neutron star, with properties typical of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-11 Luciano Combi , Daniel M. Siegel

The mergers of binary neutron stars, as well as black hole-neutron star systems, are expected to produce an electromagnetic counterpart that can be analyzed to infer the element synthesis that occurred in these events. We investigate one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Y. L. Zhu , K. Lund , J. Barnes , T. M. Sprouse , N. Vassh , G. C. McLaughlin , M. R. Mumpower , R. Surman

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

We discuss the late time (tens of days) emission from the radioactive ejecta of mergers involving neutron stars, when the ionization energy loss time of beta-decay electrons and positrons exceeds the expansion time. We show that if the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Eli Waxman , Eran O. Ofek , Doron Kushnir

We present a systematic numerical-relativity study of the dynamical ejecta, winds and nucleosynthesis in neutron star merger remnants. Binaries with the chirp mass compatible with GW170817, different mass ratios, and five microphysical…

Kilonovae are optical transients following the merger of neutron star binaries, which are powered by the r-process heating of merger ejecta. However, if a merger remnant is a long-lived supramassive neutron star supported by its uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Hao Wang , Paz Beniamini , Dimitrios Giannios

The merger of neutron star binaries is believed to eject a wide range of heavy elements into the universe. By observing the emission from this ejecta, scientists can probe the ejecta properties (mass, velocity and composition…

A binary neutron star merger is expected to be associated by a kilonova, transient optical emission powered by radioactive decay of the neutron-rich ejecta. If the post-merger remnant is a long-lived neutron star, additional energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Shunke Ai , Bing Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu

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

Detection of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave (GW) sources is important to unveil the nature of compact binary coalescences. We perform three-dimensional, time-dependent, multi-frequency radiative transfer simulations for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Masaomi Tanaka , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Shinya Wanajo , Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Black hole-neutron star mergers are among the promising gravitational-wave sources for ground-based detectors, and gravitational waves from black hole-neutron star mergers are expected to be detected in the next few years. Simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-05 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka

The historic observations of the neutron star merger GW170817 advanced our understanding of r-process nucleosynthesis and the equation of state (EOS) of neutron rich matter. Simple neutrino physics suggests that supernovae are not the site…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-04 C. J. Horowitz

An electromagnetic transient powered by the radioactive decay of r-process elements, a so-called kilonova/macronova, is one of the possible observable consequences of compact binary mergers including at east one neutron star. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaomi Tanaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo

We present Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array ALMA radio observations of GW\,170817, the first Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) event from a…