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Recent observations of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) suggest that binary neutron star (NS) mergers can create highly magnetised, millisecond NSs. Sharp cut-offs in X-ray afterglow plateaus of some SGRBs hint at the gravitational collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-11 Vikram Ravi , Paul D. Lasky

With the first observation of a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves and light GW170817, compact binary mergers have now taken the center stage in nuclear astrophysics. They are thought to be one of the main astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-11 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Albino Perego

Short gamma-ray bursts are associated with binary neutron star mergers, which are multimessenger astronomical events that have been observed both in gravitational waves and in the multiband electromagnetic spectrum. Depending on the masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-10 Cecilia Chirenti , Simone Dichiara , Amy Lien , M. Coleman Miller , Robert Preece

We elucidate the feature of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron star merger collapsing to a black hole by general relativistic simulation. We show that GW spectrum imprints the coalescence dynamics, formation process of disk,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-14 Kenta Kiuchi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We compare the impacts of uncertainties in both binary population synthesis models and the cosmic star formation history on the predicted rates of Gravitational Wave compact binary merger (GW) events. These uncertainties cause the predicted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-15 Petra N. Tang , J. J. Eldridge , Elizabeth R. Stanway , John C. Bray

The contemporaneous detection of gravitational waves and gamma rays from the GW170817/GRB 170817A, followed by kilonova emission a day after, confirmed compact binary neutron-star mergers as progenitors of short-duration gamma-ray bursts…

The merger of close binary systems containing two neutron stars should produce a burst of gravitational waves, as predicted by the theory of general relativity. A reliable estimate of the double-neutron-star merger rate in the Galaxy is…

Most of proposed models of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are associated to gravitational collapses of massive stars, and hence evolution of the GRB rate, which is crucially important in GRB intensity distribution analysis, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomonori TOTANI

We investigate emission signatures of binary compact star gravitational wave sources consisting of strongly magnetized neutron stars (NSs) and/or white dwarfs (WDs) in their late-time inspiral phase. Because of electromagnetic interactions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 Jie-Shuang Wang , Fang-Kun Peng , Kinwah Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

Merging compact binaries are the one source of gravitational radiation so far identified. Because short-period systems which will merge in less than a Hubble time have already been observed as binary pulsars, they are important both as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Marcel Zemp , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Jürg Diemand

The delay time distribution of neutron star mergers provides critical insights into binary evolution processes and the merger rate evolution of compact object binaries. However, current observational constraints on this delay time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Michael Zevin , Anya E. Nugent , Susmita Adhikari , Wen-fai Fong , Daniel E. Holz , Luke Zoltan Kelley

A binary in which a slightly evolved star starts mass transfer to a neutron star can evolve towards ultra-short orbital periods under the influence of magnetic braking. This is called magnetic capture. We investigate in detail for which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. van der Sluys , F. Verbunt , O. R. Pols

A binary in which a slightly evolved star starts mass transfer to a neutron star can evolve towards ultra-short orbital periods under the influence of magnetic braking. This is called magnetic capture. We investigate in detail for which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. van der Sluys , F. Verbunt , O. R. Pols

The first combined detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in August 2017 (event named GW170817) represents a major landmark for the ongoing investigation on these extraordinary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-07 Riccardo Ciolfi

In the dawn of the multi-messenger era including gravitational waves, which was marked by the first ever coincident detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation it is important to lay back and think about established…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-20 Antonios Nathanail

GRB data accumulated over the years have shown that the distribution of their time duration is bimodal. While there is some evidence that long bursts are associated with star-forming regions, nothing is known regarding the class of short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rosalba Perna , Krzysztof Belczynski

The merger of compact binaries, especially black holes and neutron stars, is frequently invoked to explain gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). In this paper, we present three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the relatively neglected mergers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 C. L. Fryer , S. E. Woosley , M. Herant , Melvyn B. Davies

We review the formation and evolution of compact binary stars consisting of white dwarfs (WDs), neutron stars (NSs), and black holes (BHs). Mergings of compact binary stars are expected to be the most important sources for the forthcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-07 Konstantin Postnov , Lev Yungelson

Merging neutron star binaries are prime candidate sources for heavy r-process nucleosynthesis. The amount of heavy r-process material is consistent with the mass ejection and rates of mergers, and abundances of relic radioactive materials…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Paz Beniamini , Kenta Hotokezaka , Tsvi Piran

Compact binary mergers, with neutron stars or neutron star and black-hole components, are thought to produce various electromagnetic counterparts: short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from ultra-relativistic jets followed by broadband afterglow;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Gavin P Lamb , Shiho Kobayashi