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In the violent post-merger of binary neutron-star mergers strong oscillations are present that impact the emitted gravitational-wave (GW) signal. The frequencies, temperatures and densities involved in these oscillations allow for…

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In order to extract maximal information from neutron-star merger signals, both gravitational and electromagnetic, we need to ensure that our theoretical models/numerical simulations faithfully represent the extreme physics involved. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 Peter Hammond , Ian Hawke , Nils Andersson

We review the calculations of the kinetic coefficients (thermal conductivity, shear viscosity, momentum transfer rates) of the neutron star core matter within the framework of the Landau Fermi-liquid theory. We restrict ourselves to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-23 Peter Shternin , Dmitry Ofengeim

We examine electron-transport coefficients in magnetized hot and dense electron-ion plasma relevant in binary neutron star merger simulation. We calculate electrical and thermal conductivities in low density, high temperature, highly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-27 Sreemoyee Sarkar , Souvik Priyam Adhya

The transition to a type II proton superconductor which is believed to occur in a cooling neutron star is accompanied by changes in the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium and by the formation of proton vortices with quantized magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. B. Jones

Multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star mergers provide a unique opportunity to constrain the dense-matter equation of state. Although it is known from quantum chromodynamics that hadronic matter will undergo a phase transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-01 Maximiliano Ujevic , Henrique Gieg , Federico Schianchi , Swami Vivekanandji Chaurasia , Ingo Tews , Tim Dietrich

Neutron star mergers are amongst the most promising sources for the joint detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals. They are also potential sites for the production of r-process elements and probes of the equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Samantha Rath , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Using numerical simulations based on solving the general relativistic hydrodynamic equations, we study the dynamics of a phase transition in the dense core of isolated rotating neutron stars, triggered by the back bending instability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Harald Dimmelmeier , Michal Bejger , Pawel Haensel , J. Leszek Zdunik

Both the core collapse of rotating massive stars, and the coalescence of neutron star (NS) binaries, result in the formation of a hot, differentially rotating NS remnant. The timescales over which differential rotation is removed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Ben Margalit , Adam S. Jermyn , Brian D. Metzger , Luke F. Roberts , Eliot Quataert

We study the shear and bulk viscosity coefficients as well as the thermal conductivity as arising from the collisions among phonons in superfluid neutron stars. We use effective field theory techniques to extract the allowed phonon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 Laura Tolos , Cristina Manuel , Sreemoyee Sarkar , Jaume Tarrus

Neutrinos can rapidly change flavor in the inner dense regions of core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers due to the neutrino fast flavor instability. If the amount of flavor transformation is significant, the FFI could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-13 Sherwood Richers

Based on the exact solution of Boltzmann kinetic equation in the relaxation-time approximation, the precision of the two most recent formulations of relativistic second-order non-conformal viscous hydrodynamics (14-moment approximation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Radoslaw Ryblewski

We present a numerical study of shear viscosity and thermal conductivity of symmetric nuclear matter, pure neutron matter and $\beta$-stable nuclear matter, in the framework of the Brueckner theory. The calculation of in-medium cross…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 H. F. Zhang , U. Lombardo , W. Zuo

The main problems of nonvacuum numerical relativity, compact binary mergers and stellar collapse, involve hydromagnetic instabilities and turbulent flows, so that kinetic energy at small scales have mean effects at large scale that drive…

It is well known that a mixture of two chemical components undergoing one chemical reaction is a bulk viscous fluid, where the bulk stress evolves according to the Israel-Stewart theory. Here, we show that a mixture of three independent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-25 Lorenzo Gavassino

As pointed out by Kutschera and W{\'o}jcik, very low concentration of protons combined with a specific density dependence of effective neutron-proton interaction could lead to a localization of ``proton impurities'' in neutron medium at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-17 D. A. Baiko , P. Haensel

Astrophysical scenarios such as binary neutron star mergers, protoneutron stars, and core-collapse supernovae involve finite temperatures and strong magnetic fields. Previous studies on the effect of magnetic fields on flavor-equilibration…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Pranjal Tambe , Debarati Chatterjee , Mark Alford , Alexander Haber

In this work, we estimate how much bulk viscosity driven by Urca processes is likely to affect the gravitational wave signal of a neutron star coalescence. In the late inspiral, we show that bulk viscosity affects the binding energy at…

Binary neutron-star mergers offer crucial insights into the matter properties of neutron stars. We present the possible imprints in the gravitational wave signal from the nature of phase transition from such events. Our study employs a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Sagnik Chatterjee , Shamim Haque , Kamal Krishna Nath , Rana Nandi , Ritam Mallick

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