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We perform a long and accurate Large-Eddy Simulation of a binary neutron star merger, following the newly formed remnant up to 110 milliseconds. The combination of high-order schemes, high-resolution and the gradient subgrid-scale model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Carlos Palenzuela , Federico Carrasco , Daniele Viganò

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity (GRMHD) of quasi-circular, equal-mass, binary neutron stars that undergo merger. The initial stars are irrotational, $n=1$ polytropes and are magnetized. We explore two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Milton Ruiz , Ryan N. Lang , Vasileios Paschalidis , Stuart L. Shapiro

Magnetic fields are expected to play a key role in the dynamics and the ejection mechanisms that accompany the merger of two neutron stars. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations offer a unique opportunity to unravel the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 C. Palenzuela , R. Aguilera-Miret , F. Carrasco , R. Ciolfi , J. V. Kalinani , W. Kastaun , B. Miñano , D. Viganò

The detection of binary neutron star mergers represents one of the most important and complex astrophysical discoveries of the recent years. One of the unclear aspects of the problem is the turbulent magnetic field amplification, initially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-11 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Daniele Viganò , Federico Carrasco , Borja Miñano , Carlos Palenzuela

The detection of a binary neutron star merger in 2017 through both gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission opened a new era of multimessenger astronomy. The understanding of the magnetic field amplification triggered by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Daniele Viganò , Carlos Palenzuela

We perform general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of binary neutron stars in quasi-circular orbit that merge and undergo delayed or prompt collapse to a black hole (BH). The stars are irrotational and modeled using an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

Neutron star mergers are unique laboratories of accretion, ejection, and r-process nucleosynthesis. We used 3D general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to study the role of the post-merger magnetic geometry in the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 I. M. Christie , A. Lalakos , A. Tchekhovskoy , R. Fernández , F. Foucart , E. Quataert , D. Kasen

Binary neutron star (NSNS) mergers can be sources of gravitational waves coincident with electromagnetic counterpart emission. To solidify their role as multimessenger sources, we present fully 3D, general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-20 Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

We investigate the influence of magnetic fields on the evolution of binary neutron-star (BNS) merger remnants via three-dimensional (3D) dynamical-spacetime general-relativistic (GR) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. We evolve a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-29 Philipp Mösta , David Radice , Roland Haas , Erik Schnetter , Sebastiano Bernuzzi

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

We present the first numerical simulations that track the evolution of a black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) merger from pre-merger to $r\gtrsim10^{11}\,{\rm cm}$. The disk that forms after a merger of mass ratio $q=2$ ejects massive disk winds…

Long-term ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) simulations in full general relativity are performed for a massive neutron star formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. Neutrino radiation transport effects are taken into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

We present general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, where the collapse of the metastable massive neutron star (MNS) remnant leads to the production of an incipient jet having terminal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Jay V. Kalinani , Riccardo Ciolfi , Manuela Campanelli , Bruno Giacomazzo , Andrea Pavan , Allen Wen , Yosef Zlochower

Binary neutron star mergers are expected to generate intense magnetic fields that power relativistic and non-relativistic outflows and shape their multimessenger signatures. These fields likely arise from the turbulent amplification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , David Radice , Jacob Fields , James M. Stone

We present a suite of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers performed with the code GR-Athena++. We investigate how a different initial magnetic field configuration, nuclear…

We investigate the influence of magnetic fields upon the dynamics of and resulting gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger in full general relativity coupled to ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We consider two merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Eric W. Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , David Neilsen , Carlos Palenzuela , Joel E. Tohline

We perform a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulation for $\approx 30$ ms after merger of a binary neutron star to a remnant massive neutron star (RMNS) with a high spatial resolution of the finest grid resolution $12.5$ m.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-20 Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

The merger of neutron stars drives a relativistic jet which can be observed as a short gamma-ray burst. A strong large-scale magnetic field is necessary to launch the relativistic jet. However, the magnetohydrodynamical mechanism to build…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-19 Kenta Kiuchi , Alexis Reboul-Salze , Masaru Shibata , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

The main features of the gravitational dynamics of binary neutron star systems are now well established. While the inspiral can be precisely described in the post-Newtonian approximation, fully relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 Matteo Lucca , Laura Sagunski , Federico Guercilena , Christian M. Fromm

The flow inside remnants of binary neutron star (NS) mergers is expected to be turbulent, because of magnetohydrodynamics instability activated at scales too small to be resolved in simulations. To study the large-scale impact of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 David Radice
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