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We perform a series of simulations of magnetised Binary Neutron Star mergers, with varying magnetic field topologies in the initial data, as well as varying Equations of State, and mass ratios. In this paper, a companion paper to…

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

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

Magnetic fields are expected to play a key role in the dynamics and the ejection mechanisms that accompany the merger of two neutron stars. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations offer a unique opportunity to unravel the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-27 C. Palenzuela , R. Aguilera-Miret , F. Carrasco , R. Ciolfi , J. V. Kalinani , W. Kastaun , B. Miñano , D. Viganò

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

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

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

The oscillation modes of neutron star (NS) merger remnants, as encoded by the kHz postmerger gravitational wave (GW) signal, hold great potential for constraining the as-yet undetermined equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Jamie Bamber , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

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 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

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 explore magnetic-field amplification due to the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability during binary neutron star mergers. By performing high-resolution general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations with a resolution of $17.5$ m for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-23 Kenta Kiuchi , Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Koutarou Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

We investigate the influence of magnetic fields upon the dynamics of and resulting gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger in full general relativity coupled to ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We consider two merger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Matthew Anderson , Eric W. Hirschmann , Luis Lehner , Steven L. Liebling , Patrick M. Motl , David Neilsen , Carlos Palenzuela , Joel E. Tohline

The amplification of magnetic fields plays an important role in explaining numerous astrophysical phenomena associated with binary neutron-star mergers, such as mass ejection and the powering of short gamma-ray bursts. Magnetic fields in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Michail Chabanov , Samuel D. Tootle , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

Binary neutron star mergers are expected to generate intense magnetic fields that power relativistic and non-relativistic outflows and shape their multimessenger signatures. These fields likely arise from the turbulent amplification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-30 Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , David Radice , Jacob Fields , James M. Stone

We investigate the magnetic field evolution in a series of galaxy minor mergers using the N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code \textsc{Gadget}. The simulations include the effects of radiative cooling, star formation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Annette Geng , Hanna Kotarba , Florian Bürzle , Klaus Dolag , Federico Stasyszyn , Alexander Beck , Peter Nielaba

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

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

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

Black hole-torus systems from compact binary mergers are possible engines for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). During the early evolution of the post-merger remnant, the state of the torus is determined by a combination of neutrino cooling and…

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