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There is great interest in numerical relativity simulations involving matter due to the likelihood that binary compact objects involving neutron stars will be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, as well as to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

Gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from merging neutron star binaries provide valuable information about the the properties of dense matter, the formation of heavy elements, and high-energy astrophysics. To fully leverage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We present new (3+1) dimensional numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star (BNS) mergers that take into account the NS spins. We consider different spin configurations, aligned or antialigned to the orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy

Almost a hundred compact binary mergers have been detected via gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration in the past few years providing us with a significant amount of new information on black holes and neutron stars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Kutay A. Çokluk , Kadri Yakut , Bruno Giacomazzo

A weakly magnetized neutron star (NS) undergoing disk accretion should release about a half of its power in a compact region known as the accretion boundary layer. Latitudinal spread of the accreted matter and efficient radiative cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Aleksandr Rusakov , Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

The data analysis of the gravitational wave signals emitted by coalescing neutron star binaries requires the availability of an accurate analytical representation of the dynamics and waveforms of these systems. We propose an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Tim Dietrich , Thibault Damour

High-accuracy numerical simulations of merging neutron stars play an important role in testing and calibrating the waveform models used by gravitational wave observatories. Obtaining high-accuracy waveforms at a reasonable computational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Alana Gudinas , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Merging neutron star (NS) binaries may be detected by ground-based gravitational wave (GW) interferometers (e.g. LIGO/VIRGO) within this decade and may also generate electromagnetic radiation detectable by wide-field, fast imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Dong Lai

It is now generally agreed that multidimensional, multigroup, radiation hydrodynamics is an indispensable element of any realistic model of stellar-core collapse, core-collapse supernovae, and protoneutron star instabilities. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Douglas Swesty , Eric S. Myra

Using our new post-Newtonian (PN) smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code, we have studied numerically the mergers of neutron star binaries with irrotational initial configurations. Here we describe a new method for constructing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua A. Faber , Frederic A. Rasio

The dynamics, time evolution of the mass distribution, and gravitational wave signature of coalescing neutron stars described by polytropes are compared with three simulations published previously: (a) ``Run 2'' of Zhuge et al. (1994), (b)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ruffert , M. Rampp , H. -Th. Janka

The dynamics and observable signatures of neutron star mergers are governed by physics under the most extreme conditions. They are particularly impacted by the high-density equation of state, which for the most sophisticated models is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-30 Swapnil Shankar , Stephan Rosswog , Peter Diener

We present general-relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers performed with GR-Athena++. Neutrino transport is treated using a moment-based, energy-integrated scheme (M1), augmented by neutrino…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Boris Daszuta , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximilian Jacobi , Eduardo M. Gutiérrez , Peter Hammond , William Cook , David Radice

The main features of the gravitational dynamics of binary neutron star systems are now well established. While the inspiral can be precisely described in the post-Newtonian approximation, fully relativistic magneto-hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 Matteo Lucca , Laura Sagunski , Federico Guercilena , Christian M. Fromm

In numerical simulations of binary neutron star systems, the equation of state of the dense neutron star matter is an important factor in determining both the physical realism and the numerical accuracy of the simulations. Some equations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-10 Alexander Knight , Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Mike Boyle , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Binary neutron-star systems represent one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves. In order to be able to extract important information, notably about the equation of state of matter at nuclear density, it is necessary to have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-13 Luca Baiotti , Thibault Damour , Bruno Giacomazzo , Alessandro Nagar , Luciano Rezzolla

Merging neutron stars are expected to produce hot, metastable remnants in rapid differential rotation, which subsequently cool and evolve into rigidly rotating neutron stars or collapse to black holes. Studying this metastable phase and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-19 Giovanni Camelio , Tim Dietrich , Stephan Rosswog , Brynmor Haskell

Gravitational waves emitted from the coalescence of neutron star binaries open a new window to probe matter and fundamental physics in unexplored, extreme regimes. To extract information about the supranuclear matter inside neutron stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Tim Dietrich , Tanja Hinderer , Anuradha Samajdar

Neutron star mergers are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for advanced ground-based detectors. These mergers are also expected to power bright electromagnetic signals, in the form of short gamma-ray bursts,…

Gravitational Wave (GW) signals from Binary Neutron Star (BNS) mergers provide critical insights into the properties of matter under extreme conditions. Due to the scarcity of observational data, Numerical Relativity (NR) simulations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton , William A. Messman