Fast flavor instability in hypermassive neutron star disk outflows

R Fernández, S Richers, N Mulyk, S Fahlman - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We examine the effect of neutrino flavor transformation by the fast flavor instability (FFI) on
long-term mass ejection from accretion disks formed after neutron star mergers. Neutrino …

3D radiative transfer kilonova modelling for binary neutron star merger simulations

CE Collins, A Bauswein, SA Sim… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The detection of GW170817 and the accompanying electromagnetic counterpart,
AT2017gfo, have provided an important set of observational constraints for theoretical …

On the diversity of magnetar-driven kilonovae

N Sarin, CMB Omand, B Margalit… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A non-negligible fraction of binary neutron star mergers are expected to form
long-lived neutron star remnants, dramatically altering the multimessenger signatures of a …

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 …

Estimating outflow masses and velocities in merger simulations: Impact of -process heating and neutrino cooling

F Foucart, P Mösta, T Ramirez, AJ Wright, S Darbha… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The determination of the mass, composition, and geometry of matter outflows in black hole–
neutron star and neutron star–neutron star binaries is crucial to current efforts to model …

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 …

Spectroscopic r-Process Abundance Retrieval for Kilonovae. I. The inferred abundance pattern of early emission from GW170817

N Vieira, JJ Ruan, D Haggard, N Ford… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Freshly synthesized r-process elements in kilonovae ejecta imprint absorption features on
optical spectra, as observed in the GW170817 binary neutron star merger. These spectral …

General-relativistic hydrodynamics simulation of a neutron star–sub-solar-mass black hole merger

I Markin, A Neuweiler, A Abac, SV Chaurasia, M Ujevic… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Over the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in sub-solar-mass black holes
due to their potential to provide valuable information about cosmology or the black hole …

Dynamics and equation of state dependencies of relevance for nucleosynthesis in supernovae and neutron star mergers

HT Janka, A Bauswein - Handbook of Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Springer
Neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) are born when the final collapse of the stellar
core terminates the lives of stars more massive than about nine solar masses. This can …

Late-time post-merger modeling of a compact binary: effects of relativity, r-process heating, and treatment of transport

M Haddadi, MD Duez, F Foucart… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Detectable electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves from compact binary
mergers can be produced by outflows from the black hole-accretion disk remnant during the …