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The Tayler instability (TI) of toroidal magnetic fields is a candidate mechanism for driving turbulence, angular momentum (AM) transport, and dynamo action in stellar radiative zones. Recently \cite{Skoutnev_2024} revisited the linear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Valentin A. Skoutnev , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Context: Asteroseismic measurements of the internal rotation of evolved stars indicate that at least one unknown efficient angular momentum (AM) transport mechanism is needed in stellar radiative zones. Aims: We investigate the impact of AM…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 P. Eggenberger , F. D. Moyano , J. W. den Hartogh

This study is concerned with the early evolution of magnetic fields and differential rotation of intermediate-mass stars which may evolve into Ap stars. We report on simulations of the interplay of differential rotation and magnetic fields,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Arlt , G. Ruediger

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

Massive neutron star (NS) with lifetimes of at least several seconds are expected to be the result of a sizable fraction of NS mergers. We study their formation using a large set of numerical relativity simulations. We show that they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 David Radice , Albino Perego , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bing Zhang

We study the evolution in axisymmetry of accretion disks formed self-consistently through collapse of magnetized hypermassive neutron stars to black holes. Such stars can arise following the merger of binary neutron stars. They are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Branson C. Stephens , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

Magnetic field is playing an important role at all stages of star evolution from star formation to the endpoints. The main effects are briefly reviewed. We also show that O-type stars have large convective envelopes, where convective dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 André Maeder , Georges Meynet , Cyril Georgy , Sylvia Ekström

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

As a massive star evolves through multiple stages of nuclear burning on its way to becoming a supernova, a complex, differentially rotating structure is set up. Angular momentum is transported by a variety of classic instabilities, and also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Heger , S. E. Woosley , H. C. Spruit

The thermal, spin and magnetic evolution of neutron stars in the old low mass binaries is first explored. Recycled to very short periods via accretion torques, the neutron stars lose their magnetism progressively. If accretion proceeds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Monica Colpi , Andrea Possenti , S. B. Popov , Fabio Pizzolato

We study convective motions taken from hydrodynamic simulations of rotating proto--neutron stars (PNSs) with respect to their ability to excite a dynamo instability which may be responsible for the giant neutron star magnetic fields. Since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Rheinhardt , U. Geppert

NASA's NICER telescope has recently provided evidence for non-dipolar magnetic field structures in rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. These stars are assumed to have gone through a prolonged accretion spin-up phase, begging the question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Pushpita Das , Oliver Porth , Anna Watts

The internal rotational dynamics of massive stars are poorly understood. If angular momentum (AM) transport between the core and the envelope is inefficient, the large core AM upon core-collapse will produce rapidly rotating neutron stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Linhao Ma , Jim Fuller

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

We use numerical MHD to look at the stability of a possible poloidal field in neutron stars (Flowers & Ruderman 1977), and follow its unstable evolution, which leads to the complete decay of the field. We then model a neutron star after the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Braithwaite , H. C. Spruit

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 recent discoveries of many double neutron star systems and their detection as LIGO-Virgo merger events call for a detailed understanding of their origin. Explosions of ultra-stripped stars in binary systems have been shown to play a key…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 B. Müller , D. Gay , A. Heger , T. Tauris , S. A. Sim

Long-term neutrino-radiation resistive-magnetohydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity are performed for a system composed of a massive neutron star and a torus formed as a remnant of binary neutron star mergers. The simulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-21 Masaru Shibata , Sho Fujibayashi , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

The observed X-ray pulse period of OB-type high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) pulsars are typically longer than 100 seconds. It is considered that the interaction between the strong magnetic field of neutron star and the wind matter could cause…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Shigeyuki Karino