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Mergers of neutron stars with black holes have been suggested as candidates for short gamma-ray bursts. They have also been studied for their potential as gravitational wave sources observable with ground-based detectors. For these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Coleman Miller

The mergers of black hole (BH)--neutron star (NS) binaries have been one of the most interesting topics in astrophysics, because such events have been thought to possibly produce multimessenger signals including gravitational waves and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Z. G. Dai

Binary mergers involving black holes and neutron stars have been proposed as major sources of gravitational waves, r--process nucleosynthesis, and gamma ray bursters. In addition, they represent an important, and possibly unique, observable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sasa Ratkovic , Madappa Prakash , James M. Lattimer

We calculate the first dynamical evolutions of merging black hole-neutron star binaries that construct the combined black hole-neutron star spacetime in a general relativistic framework. We treat the metric in the conformal flatness…

Merging binary neutron stars (BNSs) represent the ultimate targets for multimessenger astronomy, being among the most promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs), and, at the same time, likely accompanied by a variety of electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-02 Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Bruno Giacomazzo , Andrea Endrizzi , Daniel M. Siegel , Rosalba Perna

Binary black holes (BBHs) are one of the endpoints of isolated binary evolution, and their mergers a leading channel for gravitational wave events. Here, using the evolutionary code \textsc{StarTrack}, we study the statistical properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-19 Rosalba Perna , Martyna Chruslinska , Alessandra Corsi , Krzysztof Belczynski

The origin of the heavy elements in the Universe is not fully determined. Neutron star-black hole (NSBH) and {binary neutron star} (BNS) mergers may both produce heavy elements via rapid neutron-capture (r-process). We use the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Hsin-Yu Chen , Salvatore Vitale , Francois Foucart

Recent detections of gravitational waves from mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) in the low and high-end mass gap regimes pose a puzzle to standard stellar and binary evolution theory. Mass-gap mergers may originate from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Adrian S. Hamers , Giacomo Fragione , Patrick Neunteufel , Bence Kocsis

Black holes (BHs) with masses between $\sim 3-5M_{\odot}$, produced by a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, can further pair up with a neutron star or BH and merge again within a Hubble time. However, the astrophysical environments in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Parthapratim Mahapatra , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Anuradha Gupta , Fabio Antonini , Marc Favata , B. S. Sathyaprakash , K. G. Arun

We evaluate the redshift distribution of binary black hole (BBH), black hole - neutron star binary (BHNS) and binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, exploring the main sources of uncertainty: star formation rate (SFR) density, metallicity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-12 Filippo Santoliquido , Michela Mapelli , Nicola Giacobbo , Yann Bouffanais , M. Celeste Artale

The merging of a binary system involving two neutron stars (NSs), or a black hole (BH) and a NS, often results in the emission of an electromagnetic (EM) transient. One component of this EM transient is the epic explosion known as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 Lowri Wyn Prys Mathias , Francesco Di Clemente , Mattia Bulla , Alessandro Drago

The gravitational radiation emitted during the merger of a black hole with a neutron star is rather similar to the radiation from the merger of two black holes when the neutron star is not tidally disrupted. When tidal disruption occurs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Benjamin D. Lackey , Masaru Shibata

Black-hole neutron-star coalescing binaries have been invoked as one of the most suitable scenario to explain the emission of short gamma-ray bursts. Indeed, if the black-hole which forms after the merger, is surrounded by a massive disk,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

Making the most of the rapidly increasing population of gravitational-wave detections of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) mergers requires comparing observations with population synthesis predictions. In this work we investigate the…

The first multimessenger observation of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger in August 2017 demonstrated the huge scientific potential of these extraordinary events. This breakthrough led to a number of discoveries and provided the best…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Riccardo Ciolfi

Most galaxies have central massive black holes (BH), and merge with others during their evolution, as strongly suggested by recent observations. Consequently a black hole binary (BHB) emerges. Considering the evolution of the binary when it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christian Zier , Peter L. Biermann

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a proposed next-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatory, will expand the reach of GW astronomy of stellar-mass compact object binaries to unprecedented distances, enhancing opportunities for…

Black hole spectroscopy is an important pillar when studying gravitational waves from black holes and enables tests of general relativity. Most of the gravitational-wave signals observed over the last decade originate from binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Oliver Steppohn , Sebastian H. Völkel , Tim Dietrich

The final burst of gravitational radiation emitted by coalescing binary neutron stars carries direct information about the neutron star fluid, and, in particular, about the equation of state of nuclear matter at extreme densities. The final…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio

Neutron star-black hole binaries are among the strongest sources of gravitational waves detectable by current observatories. They can also power bright electromagnetic signals (gamma-ray bursts, kilonovae), and may be a significant source…