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The recent multi-messenger discovery of binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 showed that $\gamma$-ray emission in short GRBs is wider than the central energetic narrow cone, and weakly expands out to tens of degrees. Here we explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-21 Nihar Gupte , Imre Bartos

We present fully GRMHD simulations of the merger of binary neutron star (BNS) systems. We consider BNSs producing a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that collapses to a spinning black hole (BH) surrounded by a magnetized accretion disk in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-31 Takumu Kawamura , Bruno Giacomazzo , Wolfgang Kastaun , Riccardo Ciolfi , Andrea Endrizzi , Luca Baiotti , Rosalba Perna

Binary neutron stars (NSNS) are expected to be among the leading sources of gravitational waves observable by ground-based laser interferometers and may be the progenitors of short-hard gamma ray bursts. We present a series of general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Zachariah B. Etienne , Keisuke Taniguchi

The energy source has remained to be the great mystery in understanding of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) if the events are placed at cosmological distances as indicated by a number of recent observations. The currently popular models include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bo Qin , Xiang-Ping Wu , Ming-Chung Chu , Li-Zhi Fang , Jing-Yao Hu

The joint observation of GW170817 and GRB170817A proved that binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-ray Bursts (SGRB): this established a direct link between the still unsettled SGRB central engine and the outcome…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Barbara Patricelli , Maria Grazia Bernardini

The merger of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is a remarkable astrophysical event where all four fundamental forces interplay dynamically across multiple stages, producing a rich spectrum of multi-messenger signals. These observations present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 S. K. Maurya , A. Errehymy , Ksh. Newton Singh , G. Mustafa , Saibal Ray

Short and long-short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be powered by neutron star mergers. In this work, we calculate local rate of such GRBs and find a relatively high value of $\sim 786-2468~{\rm Gpc^{-3}~yr^{-1}}$ when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-09 Zhi-Ping Jin , Yuan-Zhu Wang , Yin-Jie Li , Yun Wang , Hao Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Da-Ming Wei

The threshold mass for prompt collapse in binary neutron star mergers was empirically found to depend on the stellar properties of the maximum-mass non-rotating neutron star model. Here we present a semi-analytic derivation of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Recent observations of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) suggest that binary neutron star (NS) mergers can create highly magnetised, millisecond NSs. Sharp cut-offs in X-ray afterglow plateaus of some SGRBs hint at the gravitational collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-11 Vikram Ravi , Paul D. Lasky

I summarize recent results about how a neutron star binary coalescence can produce short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two possibilities are discussed: the annihilation of neutrino anti-neutrino pairs above the merged remnant and the exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 S. Rosswog

Gravitational waves from coalescence of a Binary Neutron Star (BNS) and its accompagning short Gamma-Ray Burst GW/GRB~170817A confirmed the presumed origin of these puzzeling transients and opened up the way for relating properties of short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-23 Houri Ziaeepour

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 binary neutron star merger GW170817/GRB170817A confirmed that at least some neutron star mergers are the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts. Many short gamma-ray bursts have long-term x-ray afterglows that have been interpreted in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Paul D. Lasky , Nikhil Sarin , Greg Ashton

Binary neutron-star mergers have long been associated with short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This connection was confirmed with the first coincident detection of gravitational waves together with electromagnetic radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-11 Antonios Nathanail , Oliver Porth , Luciano Rezzolla

The maximum mass of neutron stars ($M_{\rm TOV}$) plays a crucial role in understanding their equation of state (EoS). Previous studies have used the measurements for the compactness of massive pulsars and the tidal deformability of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Shunke Ai , He Gao , Yong Yuan , Bing Zhang , Lin Lan

We study the lifetimes of the remnant produced by the merger of two neutron stars and revisit the determination of the threshold mass to prompt collapse, $M_{\rm th}$. Using a fully general-relativistic numerical approach and a novel method…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Sven Köppel , Luke Bovard , Luciano Rezzolla

Massive, rapidly-spinning magnetar remnants produced as a result of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers may deposit a fraction of their energy into the surrounding kilonova ejecta, powering a synchrotron radio signal from the interaction of…

The simultaneous detection of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from a binary neutron star merger has both solidified the link between neutron star mergers and short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and demonstrated the ability of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Brandon K. Wiggins , Christopher L. Fryer , Joseph M. Smidt , Dieter H. Hartmann , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Chris Belcynski

We combine electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) information on the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817 in order to constrain the radii $R_{\rm ns}$ and maximum mass $M_{\rm max}$ of NSs. GW170817 was followed by a range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Ben Margalit , Brian Metzger

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are expected to be among the leading sources of gravitational waves observable by ground-based detectors, and may be the progenitors of short-hard gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) as well. Here, we discuss…