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Neutrino oscillations can explain the observed motion of pulsars. We show that two different models of neutrino emission from a cooling neutron star are in good quantitative agreement and predict the same order of magnitude for the pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Kusenko , Gino Segre

Recent detailed 1D core-collapse simulations have brought new insights on the final fate of massive stars, which are in contrast to commonly used parametric prescriptions. In this work, we explore the implications of these results to the…

I identify a point-symmetric structure in recently published VLT/MUSE velocity maps of different elements in a plane along the line of sight at the center of the supernova remnant SNR 0540-69.3, and argue that jittering jets that exploded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Noam Soker

Several physical and astrophysical problems related to accretion onto black holes and neutron stars are shortly reviewed. I discuss the observed differences between these two types of compact objects in quiescent Soft X-ray Transients. Then…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jean-Pierre Lasota

We employ population synthesis method to model the double neutron star (DNS) population and test various possibilities on natal kick velocities gained by neutron stars after their formation. We first choose natal kicks after standard core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Martyna Chruslinska , Krzysztof Belczynski , Tomasz Bulik , Wojciech Gladysz

A study is made of the behavior of massive black holes in disk galaxies that have received an impulsive kick from a merger or a sustained acceleration from an asymmetric jet. The motion of the gas, stars, dark matter, and massive black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David A. Kornreich , Richard V. E. Lovelace

We investigate the dynamical evolution of a star cluster in an external tidal field by using N-body simulations, with focus on the effects of the presence or absence of neutron star natal velocity kicks.We show that, even if neutron stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Filippo Contenta , Anna Lisa Varri , Douglas C. Heggie

Neutron stars receive velocity kicks at birth in supernovae. Those formed in electron-capture supernovae from super asymptotic giant branch stars -- the lowest mass stars to end their lives in supernovae -- may receive significantly lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Simon Stevenson , Reinhold Willcox , Alejandro Vigna-Gomez , Floor Broekgaarden

Compact objects and supernova remnants provide nearby laboratories to probe the fate of stars after they die, and the way they impact, and are impacted by, their surrounding medium. The past five decades have significantly advanced our…

The fact that the spatial velocity of pulsars is generally higher than that of their progenitor stars has bothered astronomers for nearly 50 years. It has been extensively argued that the high pulsar velocity should be acquired during a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Zheng Li , Qiu-He Peng , Miao Kang , Xiang Liu , Ming Zhang , Yong-Feng Huang , Chih-Kang Chou

Primordial stars are likely to be very massive $\geq30\Msun$, form in isolation, and will likely leave black holes as remnants in the centers of their host dark matter halos in the mass range $10^{6}-10^{10}\Ms$. Such early black holes, at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-06 Miroslav Micic , Tom Abel , Steinn Sigurdsson

When a massive star ends its life, its core collapses, forming a neutron star or black hole and producing some of the most energetic explosions in the universe. Core-collapse supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts are the violent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 C. L. Fryer

The orbital dynamics of fast spinning neutron stars encountering a massive Black Hole (BH) with unbounded orbits are investigated using the quadratic-in-spin Mathisson-Papapetrou- Dixon (MPD) formulation. We consider the motion of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Kaye Jiale Li , Kinwah Wu , Po Kin Leung , Dinesh Singh

Notoriously hard to detect and study, isolated neutron stars (NS) could provide valuable answers to fundamental questions about stellar evolution and explosion physics. With the upcoming Roman Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2026,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Zofia Kaczmarek , Abby Halasi-Kun , Peter McGill , Scott E. Perkins , William A. Dawson

We compare binary evolution models with different assumptions about black-hole natal kicks to the first gravitational-wave observations performed by the LIGO detectors. Our comparisons attempt to reconcile merger rate, masses, spins, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-22 D. Wysocki , D. Gerosa , R. O'Shaughnessy , K. Belczynski , W. Gladysz , E. Berti , M. Kesden , D. Holz

We study the anisotropic neutrino emission from the core of neutron stars induced by the star's magnetic field. We model the core as made out of a magnetized ideal gas of strange quark matter and implement the conditions for stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Alejandro Ayala , D. Manreza Paret , A. Pérez Martínez , Gabriella Piccinelli , Angel Sánchez , Jorge S. Ruíz Montaño

In this letter we focus on the peculiar case of a coalescing compact-object binary whose chirp mass is compatible both with a neutron star-neutron star and black hole-neutron star system, with the black hole in the $\sim 3-5M_\odot$ range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Claudio Barbieri , Om Sharan Salafia , Monica Colpi , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Albino Perego , Alberto Colombo

A population of more than 50 binary black hole mergers has now been observed by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories. While neutron stars are known to have large velocities associated with impulsive kicks imparted to them at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Simon Stevenson

It is now clear that a subset of supernovae display evidence for jets and are observed as gamma-ray bursts. The angular momentum distribution of massive stellar endpoints provides a rare means of constraining the nature of the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 J. M. Miller , M. C. Miller , C. S. Reynolds

Recent calculations of the recoil velocity in black-hole binary mergers have found kick velocities of $\approx2500 $km/s for equal-mass binaries with anti-aligned initial spins in the orbital plane. In general the dynamics of spinning black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Bernd Bruegmann , Jose Gonzalez , Mark Hannam , Sascha Husa , Ulrich Sperhake