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In the extreme violence of merger and mass accretion, compact objects like black holes and neutron stars are thought to launch some of the most luminous outbursts of electromagnetic and gravitational wave energy in the Universe. Modeling…

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In this paper, we show that similar open-source codes for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) produce different results for key features of binary neutron star mergers. First, we present a new open-source version of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Pedro Luis Espino , Gabriele Bozzola , Vasileios Paschalidis

We present the new general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of the Einstein Toolkit, an open-source community-driven numerical relativity and computational relativistic astrophysics code. The GRMHD extension of the…

Many astrophysical systems of interest to numerical relativity-such as rapidly rotating stars, black hole accretion disks, and core-collapse supernovae-exhibit near-symmetries. These systems generally consist of a strongly gravitating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-20 Terrence Pierre Jacques , Samuel Cupp , Leonardo R. Werneck , Samuel D. Tootle , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton , Zachariah B. Etienne

We have added support for realistic, microphysical, finite-temperature equations of state (EOS) and neutrino physics via a leakage scheme to IllinoisGRMHD, an open-source GRMHD code for dynamical spacetimes in the Einstein Toolkit. These…

The equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) have become the standard mathematical framework for modeling high-energy plasmas in curved spacetimes. However, the fragility of the primitive variable reconstruction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Jonathan Gorard , James Juno , Ammar Hakim

We present the extension of GR-Athena++ to general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) for applications to neutron star spacetimes. The new solver couples the constrained transport implementation of Athena++ to the Z4c formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 William Cook , Boris Daszuta , Jacob Fields , Peter Hammond , Simone Albanesi , Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice

General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations represent a fundamental tool to probe various underlying mechanisms at play during binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star (NS) - black hole (BH) mergers. Contemporary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-27 Jay V. Kalinani , Riccardo Ciolfi , Wolfgang Kastaun , Bruno Giacomazzo , Federico Cipolletta , Lorenzo Ennoggi

Recent developments in compact object astrophysics, especially the discovery of merging neutron stars by LIGO, the imaging of the black hole in M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and high precision astrometry of the Galactic Center at…

Iharm3D is an open-source C code for simulating black hole accretion systems in arbitrary stationary spacetimes using ideal general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD). It is an implementation of the HARM ("High Accuracy Relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Ben S. Prather , George N. Wong , Vedant Dhruv , Benjamin R. Ryan , Joshua C. Dolence , Sean M. Ressler , Charles F. Gammie

The new era of multimessenger astrophysics requires the capability of studying different aspects of the evolution of compact objects. In particular, the merger of neutron star binaries is a strong source of gravitational waves and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-16 Federico Cipolletta , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Bruno Giacomazzo , Riccardo Ciolfi

We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the recent work of (Daszuta+, 2021)[49] and (Cook+, 2023)[45].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-10 Boris Daszuta , William Cook

Recent advances in black hole astrophysics, particularly the first visual evidence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and the detection of an orbiting "hot spot" nearby the…

We present GRaM-X (General Relativistic accelerated Magnetohydrodynamics on AMReX), a new GPU-accelerated dynamical-spacetime general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code which extends the GRMHD capability of Einstein Toolkit to…

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We perform binary neutron star (BNS) merger simulations in full dynamical general relativity with IllinoisGRMHD, on a Cartesian grid with adaptive-mesh refinement. After the remnant black hole has become nearly stationary, the evolution of…

We here present a new version of the publicly available general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) code $\texttt{Spritz}$, which now includes an approximate neutrino leakage scheme able to handle neutrino cooling and heating. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-08 Federico Cipolletta , Jay Vijay Kalinani , Edoardo Giangrandi , Bruno Giacomazzo , Riccardo Ciolfi , Lorenzo Sala , Beatrice Giudici

The advent of high-fidelity imaging of supermassive black holes calls for efficient and robust data-analysis methods. In this work, we use $\texttt{Jipole}$, a differentiable, $\texttt{ipole}$-based radiative transfer code, to enable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Pedro Naethe Motta , Mário Raia Neto , Cora Prather , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

We have written and tested a new general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, capable of evolving MHD fluids in dynamical spacetimes with adaptive-mesh refinement (AMR). Our code solves the Einstein-Maxwell-MHD system of coupled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Zachariah B. Etienne , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a new approach for stably evolving general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations in regions where the magnetization $\sigma=b^2/\rho c^2$ becomes large. GRMHD codes typically struggle to evolve plasma above…

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Recent observations of compact binary systems have provided evidence for black holes with masses below standard expectations. When paired with neutron stars (NSs), such low-mass black holes (BHs) have the potential to be detected by future…

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