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The late stage of an inspiraling neutron star binary gives rise to strong gravitational wave emission due to its highly dynamic, strong gravity. Moreover, interactions between the stellar magnetospheres can produce considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Marcelo Ponce , Steven L. Liebling , Matthew Anderson , David Neilsen , Patrick Motl

The detection of a secular post-merger gravitational wave (GW) signal in a binary neutron star (BNS) merger serves as strong evidence for the formation of a long-lived post-merger neutron star (NS), which can help constrain the maximum mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-17 Yikang Chen , Bin Liu , Shunke Ai , Lin Lan , He Gao , Yong Yuan , Zong-Hong Zhu

Simulations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binaries generally consider black holes with masses in the range $(5-10)M_\odot$, where we expect to find most stellar mass black holes. The existence of lower mass black holes, however, cannot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 F. Foucart , M. D. Duez , L. E. Kidder , S. Nissanke , H. P. Pfeiffer , M. A. Scheel

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries produce gravitational-wave (GW) emission and outflows with significant kinetic energies. These outflows result in radio emissions through synchrotron radiation. We explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Kenta Hotokezaka , Samaya Nissanke , Gregg Hallinan , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

Neutron-star mergers are interesting for several reasons: they are proposed as the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts, they have been speculated to be a site for the synthesis of heavy elements, and they emit gravitational waves possibly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-03 O. L. Caballero

Gravitational wave observations of eccentric binary black hole mergers will provide unequivocal evidence for the formation of these systems through dynamical assembly in dense stellar environments. The study of these astrophysically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-06 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Sarah Habib , Anushri Gupta , Adam Rebei , Vishnu Chavva , Daniel Johnson , Shawn Rosofsky , Erik Wessel , Bhanu Agarwal , Diyu Luo , Wei Ren

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

The merger of two neutron stars is predicted to give rise to three major detectable phenomena: a short burst of gamma-rays, a gravitational wave signal, and a transient optical/near-infrared source powered by the synthesis of large amounts…

Possible formation mechanisms of massive close binary black holes that can merge in the Hubble time to produce powerful gravitational wave bursts detected during advanced LIGO O1 science run are briefly discussed. The pathways include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Konstantin Postnov , Alexandre Kuranov

Merging rates of compact binaries (double neutron stars or black holes) are calculated based on the modern concept of binary stellar evolution. It is found that the initial laser interferometers with an rms-sensitivity of $10^{-21}$ at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. E. Prokhorov , V. M. Lipunov , K. A. Postnov

We present 3D general-relativistic neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations of two asymmetric binary neutron star mergers producing long-lived neutron stars remnants and spanning a fraction of their cooling time scale. The mergers are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Fabio Magistrelli , Maximilian Jacobi , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego , David Radice

As the technology of gravitational-wave and neutrino detectors becomes increasingly mature, a multi-messenger era of astronomy is ushered in. Advanced gravitational wave detectors are close to making a ground-breaking discovery of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 He Gao , Bing Zhang , Xue-Feng Wu , Zi-Gao Dai

The LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave detectors have confidently observed 4 events involving neutron stars: two binary neutron star (BNS) mergers (GW170817 and GW190425), and two neutron star-black hole mergers (GW200105 and GW200115). However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 Sumeet Kulkarni , Surendra Padamata , Anuradha Gupta

We argue that the kilonova/macronova associated with the gravitational-wave event GW190425 could have been bright enough to be detected if it was caused by the merger of a low-mass black hole and a neutron star. Although tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-11 Koutarou Kyutoku , Sho Fujibayashi , Kota Hayashi , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka

While it is well known that neutrinos are emitted from standard core collapse protoneutron star supernovae, less attention has been focused on neutrinos from accretion disks. These disks occur in some supernovae (i.e. "collapsars") as well…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-15 O. L. Caballero , G. C. McLaughlin , R. Surman

As a neutron star (NS) is tidally disrupted by a black hole (BH) companion at the end of a BH-NS binary inspiral, its magnetic fields will be stretched and amplified. If sufficiently strong, these magnetic fields may impact the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

Multi-messenger astronomy was galvanized by the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 and electromagnetic (EM) emission from the subsequent kilonova and short gamma ray burst. Maximizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Matt Nicholl , Isabelle Worssam , Benjamin P. Gompertz

Multimessenger observations may hold the key to learn about the most energetic sources in the universe. The recent construction of large scale observatories opened new possibilities in testing non thermal cosmic processes with alternative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Dafne Guetta

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are amongst promising candidates for the joint detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals with gravitational waves (GWs) and are expected to be detected in the near future. Here we study the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , George Smoot