Binary neutron star mergers: a review of Einstein's richest laboratory

L Baiotti, L Rezzolla - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In a single process, the merger of binary neutron star systems combines extreme gravity, the
copious emission of gravitational waves, complex microphysics and electromagnetic …

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

Numerical relativity simulations of the neutron star merger GW170817: long-term remnant evolutions, winds, remnant disks, and nucleosynthesis

V Nedora, S Bernuzzi, D Radice… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the dynamical ejecta, winds, and
nucleosynthesis in neutron star (NS) merger remnants. Binaries with the chirp mass …

Theoretical physics implications of the binary black-hole mergers GW150914 and GW151226

N Yunes, K Yagi, F Pretorius - Physical review D, 2016 - APS
The gravitational wave observations GW150914 and GW151226 by Advanced LIGO provide
the first opportunity to learn about physics in the extreme gravity environment of coalescing …

Dynamical mass ejection from binary neutron star mergers

D Radice, F Galeazzi, J Lippuner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present fully general-relativistic simulations of binary neutron star mergers with a
temperature and composition dependent nuclear equation of state. We study the dynamical …

Jets from neutron-star merger remnants and massive blue kilonovae

L Combi, DM Siegel - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We perform three-dimensional general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations with
weak interactions of binary neutron-star (BNS) mergers resulting in a long-lived remnant …

Gravitational waves and mass ejecta from binary neutron star mergers: Effect of the mass ratio

T Dietrich, M Ujevic, W Tichy, S Bernuzzi, B Brügmann - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We present new (3+ 1) D numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star (BNS)
merger and postmerger phase. We focus on a previously inaccessible region of the binary …

Neutron star merger remnants

S Bernuzzi - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2020 - Springer
Binary neutron star mergers observations are a unique way to constrain fundamental
physics and astrophysics at the extreme. The interpretation of gravitational-wave events and …

Viscous dissipation and heat conduction in binary neutron-star mergers

MG Alford, L Bovard, M Hanauske, L Rezzolla… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Inferring the properties of dense matter is one of the most exciting prospects from the
measurement of gravitational waves from neutron star mergers. However, it requires reliable …