r-Process nucleosynthesis in gravitational-wave and other explosive astrophysical events

DM Siegel - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Gravitational-wave detectors have transformed the way we observe the Universe. Together
with ground and space electromagnetic observatories, they have provided key insights into …

Neutrino transport in general relativistic neutron star merger simulations

F Foucart - Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics, 2023 - Springer
Numerical simulations of neutron star–neutron star and neutron star–black hole binaries
play an important role in our ability to model gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signals …

Neutrino fast flavor instability in three dimensions

S Richers, D Willcox, N Ford - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Neutrino flavor instabilities have the potential to shuffle neutrinos between electron, mu, and
tau flavor states, possibly modifying the core-collapse supernova mechanism and the heavy …

Binary neutron star merger simulations with neutrino transport and turbulent viscosity: impact of different schemes and grid resolution

F Zappa, S Bernuzzi, D Radice… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the impact of different physics input and
grid resolution in binary neutron star mergers. We compare simulations employing a …

Second release of the CoRe database of binary neutron star merger waveforms

A Gonzalez, F Zappa, M Breschi… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the second data release of gravitational waveforms from binary neutron star
(BNS) merger simulations performed by the Computational Relativity (CoRe) collaboration …

Numerical relativity simulations of the neutron star merger GW190425: microphysics and mass ratio effects

A Camilletti, L Chiesa, G Ricigliano… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT GW190425 was the second gravitational wave (GW) signal compatible with a
binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo …

An updated nuclear-physics and multi-messenger astrophysics framework for binary neutron star mergers

PTH Pang, T Dietrich, MW Coughlin, M Bulla… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The multi-messenger detection of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, the
corresponding kilonova AT2017gfo and the short gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, as well as …

Binary neutron star mergers in massive scalar-tensor theory: Properties of postmerger remnants

ATL Lam, HJ Kuan, M Shibata, K Van Aelst, K Kiuchi - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate the properties of postmerger remnants of binary neutron star mergers in the
framework of Damour–Esposito-Farese-type scalar-tensor theory of gravity with a massive …

Long-term 3D MHD simulations of black hole accretion discs formed in neutron star mergers

S Fahlman, R Fernández - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We examine the long-term evolution of accretion tori around black hole (BH) remnants of
compact object mergers involving at least one neutron star, to better understand their …

General relativistic simulations of collapsing binary neutron star mergers with Monte Carlo neutrino transport

F Foucart, MD Duez, R Haas, LE Kidder, HP Pfeiffer… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Recent gravitational wave observations of neutron-star-neutron-star and neutron-star-black-
hole binaries appear to indicate that massive neutron stars may not be too uncommon in …