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We investigate properties of material ejected dynamically in the merger of black hole-neutron star binaries by numerical-relativity simulations. We systematically study the dependence of ejecta properties on the mass ratio of the binary,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Koutarou Kyutoku , Kunihito Ioka , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We perform radiative transfer simulations for kilonova in various situations, including the cases of prompt collapse to a black hole from neutron-star mergers, high-velocity ejecta possibly accelerated by magnetars, and a black hole-neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Masaru Shibata , Masaomi Tanaka

We perform radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers in numerical relativity on the Japanese "K" supercomputer, taking into account neutrino cooling and heating by an updated leakage-plus-transfer scheme for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

Numerical-relativity simulations for the merger of binary neutron stars are performed for a variety of equations of state (EOSs) and for a plausible range of the neutron-star mass, focusing primarily on the properties of the material…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Kenta Hotokezaka , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Yu-ichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We perform three-dimensional (3D) general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to model the jet break-out from the ejecta expected to be produced in a binary neutron-star merger. The structure of the relativistic outflow from the 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-01 Antonios Nathanail , Ramandeep Gill , Oliver Porth , Christian M. Fromm , Luciano Rezzolla

The coalescence of binary neutron stars can yield the expulsion of a fast-moving, quasi-isotropic material, which may induce thermal radiation and give rise to kilonova emission. Moreover, the interaction between the ejected material and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Shao-Ze Li , Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao , Lin Lan

Material expelled from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can harbor r-process nucleosynthesis and power a Kilonova (KN), both intimately related to the astrophysical conditions of the ejection. In turn such conditions indirectly depend on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Giacomo Ricigliano , Maximilian Jacobi , Almudena Arcones

The ejecta from binary neutron star mergers, which powers its associated kilonova, can inform us about source properties, merger dynamics, and the dense nuclear matter equation of state. While now in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Amelia Henkel , Francois Foucart , Selah Melfor , Samaya Nissanke , Alexandra Wernersson , Uddipta Bhardwaj

When binary systems of neutron stars merge, a very small fraction of their rest mass is ejected, either dynamically or secularly. This material is neutron-rich and its nucleosynthesis could provide the astrophysical site for the production…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-13 Luke Bovard , Dirk Martin , Federico Guercilena , Almudena Arcones , Luciano Rezzolla , Oleg Korobkin

We investigate the ejecta from black hole - neutron star mergers by modeling the formation and interaction of mass ejected in a tidal tail and a disk wind. The outflows are neutron-rich, giving rise to optical/infrared emission powered by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Rodrigo Fernández , Francois Foucart , Daniel Kasen , Jonas Lippuner , Dhruv Desai , Luke F. Roberts

The neutron star merger, GW170817, was followed by an optical-infrared transient (a kilonova) which indicated that a substantial ejection of mass at trans-relativistic velocities occurred during the merger. Modeling of the kilonova is able…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Adithan Kathirgamaraju , Dimitrios Giannios , Paz Beniamini

The observations of a macronova/kilonova accompanied by gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) confirmed that neutron star coalescences produce copious ejecta. The coincident gamma-ray detection implies the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Imre Bartos , Kunihito Ioka , Ik Siong Heng , Peter Mészáros

We use relativistic hydrodynamic numerical calculations to study the interaction between a jet and a homologous outflow produced dynamically during binary neutron star mergers. We quantify how the thermal energy supplied by the jet to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Paul C. Duffell , Eliot Quataert , Daniel Kasen , Hannah Klion

Depending upon the properties of their compact remnants and the physics included in the models, simulations of neutron star mergers can produce a broad range of ejecta properties. The characteristics of this ejecta, in turn, define the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 R. T. Wollaeger , C. L. Fryer , E. A. Chase , C. J. Fontes , M. Ristic , A. L. Hungerford , O. Korobkin , R. O'Shaughnessy , A. M. Herring

With the recent advent of multi-messenger gravitational-wave astronomy and in anticipation of more sensitive, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, we investigate the dynamics, gravitational-wave emission, and nucleosynthetic yields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-07 L. Jens Papenfort , Roman Gold , Luciano Rezzolla

Merging neutron stars generate shock waves that disintegrate heavy nuclei into nucleons especially in the outer envelope. It is expected that some of such neutrons having avoided capturing positrons remain as free neutrons even after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Ayako Ishii , Toshikazu Shigeyama , Masaomi Tanaka

We explore the multi-messenger signatures of encounters between two neutron stars and between a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole. We focus on the differences between gravitational wave driven binary mergers and dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Rosswog , T. Piran , E. Nakar

We performed general relativistic, long-term, axisymmetric neutrino radiation hydrodynamics simulations for the remnant formed after the binary neutron star merger, which consist of a massive neutron star and a torus surrounding it. As an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-25 Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata

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

Fast ejecta expelled in binary neutron star (NS) mergers or energetic supernovae (SNe) should produce late-time synchrotron radio emission as the ejecta shocks into the surrounding ambient medium. Models for such radio flares typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Ben Margalit , Tsvi Piran