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We performed the first numerical simulations of magnetorotational instability from a sub-magnetar-class seed magnetic field in core collapse supernovae. As a result of axisymmetric ideal MHD simulations, we found that the magnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Hidetomo Sawai , Shoichi Yamada , Hideyuki Suzuki

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can result in the formation of long-lived magnetar remnants which can enhance neutrino and electromagnetic (EM) emissions. In this work, we study the resulting multi-wavelength EM emissions and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura

We perform the first magnetohydrodynamic simulations in full general relativity of self-consistent rotating neutron stars (NSs) with ultrastrong mixed poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields. The initial uniformly rotating NS models are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Kōji Uryū

The binary neutron star merger event GW170817 was detected through both electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves. Its afterglow emission may have been produced by either a narrow relativistic jet or an isotropic outflow. High…

Jets can become collimated as they propagate through dense environments and understanding such interactions is crucial for linking physical models of the environments to observations. In this work, we use 3D special-relativistic simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Lorenzo Nativi , Gavin P. Lamb , Stephan Rosswog , Christoffer Lundman , Grzegorz Kowal

Using accurate and fully general-relativistic simulations we assess the effect that magnetic fields have on the gravitational-wave emission produced during the inspiral and merger of magnetized neutron stars. In particular, we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-12 Bruno Giacomazzo , Luciano Rezzolla , Luca Baiotti

It is commonly believed that neutron stars exceeding the maximum mass limit for stability could be formed in the aftermath of binary neutron star mergers, enjoying a short life of metastability before losing centrifugal support and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Arthur G Suvorov , Kostas Glampedakis

We have studied the dynamics of an equal-mass magnetized neutron-star binary within a resistive magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) approach in which the highly conducting stellar interior is matched to an electrovacuum exterior. Because our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-12 K. Dionysopoulou , D. Alic , L. Rezzolla

Two neutron stars merge somewhere in the Universe approximately every 10 seconds, creating violent explosions observable in gravitational waves and across the electromagnetic spectrum. The transformative coincident gravitational-wave and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Nikhil Sarin , Paul D. Lasky

Binary neutron star mergers are plausible progenitor candidates for short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs); however, a detailed explanation of their central engine is still lacking. The annihilation of neutrino pairs has been proposed as one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Albino Perego , Hannah Yasin , Almudena Arcones

Galaxy mergers are expected to play a central role for the evolution of galaxies, and may have a strong impact on their magnetic fields. We present the first grid-based 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations investigating the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Kai Rodenbeck , Dominik R. G. Schleicher

Neutron stars exhibit magnetic fields and densities far beyond those achievable in terrestrial laboratories, offering a natural probe of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Using observationally anchored mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Abriana Lyda , Prajwal MohanMurthy

In a previous paper, we reported simulations of the evolution of the magnetic field in neutron star cores through ambipolar diffusion, taking the neutrons as a motionless uniform background. However, in real neutron stars, neutrons are free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 F. Castillo , A. Reisenegger , J. A. Valdivia

A magnetic dynamo driven by differential rotation generated when stars merge can explain strong fields in certain classes of magnetic stars, including the high field magnetic white dwarfs (HFMWDs). In their case the site of the differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gordon P. Briggs , Lilia Ferrario , Christopher A. Tout , Dayal T. Wickramasinghe , Jarrod R. Hurley

We study the effects of magnetic fields on the evolution of differentially rotating neutron stars, which can form in stellar core collapse or binary neutron star coalescence. Magnetic braking and the magnetorotational instability (MRI) both…

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

We have carried out numerical evolutionary calculations of binary systems to investigate the formation of binary millisecond pulsars (pulsars with white dwarf companions). We apply the ``standard scenario'' in which the binary pulsars are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Sutantyo , X. -D. Li

Binary neutron stars (BNS) mergers are prime sites for $r$-process nucleosynthesis. Their rate determines the chemical evolution of heavy elements in the Milky Way. The merger rate of BNS is a convolution of their birth rate and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 Paz Beniamini , Tsvi Piran

The merger of two neutron stars results often in a rapidly and differentially rotating hypermassive neutron star (HMNS). We show by numerical-relativity simulation that the magnetic-field profile around such HMNS is dynamically varied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Masaru Shibata , Yudai Suwa , Kenta Kiuchi , Kunihito Ioka

The merger of two magnetized compact objects, such as neutron stars, forms a compact object which may launch a relativistic and collimated jet. Numerical simulations of the process show that a dense and highly magnetized medium surrounds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-17 Leonardo Garcia-Garcia , Diego Lopez-Camara , Davide Lazzati