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Models invoking magnetic reconnection as the particle acceleration mechanism within relativistic jets often adopt a gradual energy dissipation profile within the jet. However, such a profile has yet to be reproduced in first-principles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Emma Kaufman , I. M. Christie , A. Lalakos , A. Tchekhovskoy , D. Giannios

We investigate the properties of post-merger remnants of binary neutron star mergers in the framework of Damour-Esposito-Farese-type scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a massive scalar field by numerical relativity simulation. It is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-11 Alan Tsz-Lok Lam , Hao-Jui Kuan , Masaru Shibata , Karim Van Aelst , Kenta Kiuchi

The recent multimessenger observation of the short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) GRB 170817A together with the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 provides evidence for the long-standing hypothesis associating SGRBs with binary neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Bruno Giacomazzo

We perform high-resolution magnetohydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers in numerical relativity on the Japanese supercomputer K. The neutron stars and merger remnants are covered by a grid spacing of 70\,m, which yields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Tomohide Wada

We perform general relativistic, magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of merging binary neutron stars incorporating neutrino transport and magnetic fields. Our new radiative transport module for neutrinos adopts a general relativistic,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-17 Lunan Sun , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Antonios Tsokaros

We report long-term simulations of black hole-neutron star binary mergers where the neutron star possesses an asymmetric magnetic field dipole. Focusing on the scenario where the neutron star is tidally disrupted by the black hole, we track…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 Mew-Bing Wan

We present new numerical-relativity simulations of a magnetized binary neutron star merger performed with AthenaK. The simulations employ a temperature- and composition-dependent tabulated nuclear equation of state, with initially dipolar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Jacob Fields , David Radice

We performed the longest numerical-relativity neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulation for a binary neutron star merger that extends to $\approx1.5\mathrm{\,s}$ after the merger. We consider the binary model that undergoes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Kota Hayashi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Although the main features of the evolution of binary neutron star systems are now well established, many details are still subject to debate, especially regarding the post-merger phase. In particular, the lifetime of the hyper-massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Matteo Lucca , Laura Sagunski

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

Numerical simulations are essential to understand the complex physics accompanying the merger of binary systems of neutron stars. However, these simulations become computationally challenging when they have to model the merger remnants on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 Jin-Liang Jiang , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla

We explore the electromagnetic counterparts that will associate with binary neutron star mergers for the case that remnant massive neutron stars survive for $\gtrsim 0.5\,$s after the merger. For this study, we employ the outflow profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Kenta Hotokezaka , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo

The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) can lead to large amplifications of the magnetic field due to the development of turbulence and instabilities in the fluid, such as the Kelvin-Helmholtz shear instability, which drive small-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-09 Bruno Giacomazzo , Jonathan Zrake , Paul Duffell , Andrew I. MacFadyen , Rosalba Perna

We perform magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity (GRMHD) of a binary black hole-neutron star on a quasicircular orbit that undergoes merger. The binary mass ratio is 3:1, the black hole initial spin parameter $a/m=0.75$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Vasileios Paschalidis , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

It has been estimated that a significant proportion of binary neutron star merger events produce long-lived massive remnants supported by differential rotation and subject to rotational instabilities. To examine formation and oscillation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-08 Xuefeng Zhang , Zhoujian Cao

The dynamics of a binary neutron stars merger is governed by physics under the most extreme conditions, including strong spacetime curvature, ultra-high matter densities, luminous neutrino emission and the rapid amplification of the initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Jan-Erik Christian , Stephan Rosswog , Carlos Palenzuela

We perform general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with four distinct magnetic field topologies: (i) a dipole pulsar-like configuration, (ii) a mixed linear superposition of poloidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Inês Rainho , Jamie Bamber , Davide Guerra , Miquel Miravet-Tenés , Milton Ruiz , Antonios Tsokaros , Stuart L. Shapiro

This study extends the 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of a jet emerging from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger presented in Pavan et al. (2023), in which an incipient jet was manually injected into the realistic environment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Emma Dreas , Andrea Pavan , Riccardo Ciolfi , Annalisa Celotti

We present a comprehensive nucleosynthesis study of the neutrino-driven wind in the aftermath of a binary neutron star merger. Our focus is the initial remnant phase when a massive central neutron star is present. Using tracers from a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 Dirk Martin , Albino Perego , Almudena Arcones , Friedrich-Karl Thielemann , Oleg Korobkin , Stephan Rosswog

The LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration has observed gravitational waves consistent with the mergers of a black hole and a neutron star, namely GW200105 and GW200115, providing evidence for such cataclysmic events. Although no electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-07 Manuel R. Izquierdo , Miguel Bezares , Steven Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela