Neutrinos from dense environments: Flavor mechanisms, theoretical approaches, observations, and new directions

MC Volpe - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Neutrino masses and mixings produce vacuum oscillations, an established quantum
mechanical phenomenon. In matter, the Mikheev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect, due to …

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 …

Constraints on the dense matter equation of state and neutron star properties from NICER's mass–radius estimate of PSR J0740+ 6620 and multimessenger …

G Raaijmakers, SK Greif, K Hebeler… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years our understanding of the dense matter equation of state (EOS) of neutron
stars has significantly improved by analyzing multimessenger data from radio/X-ray pulsars …

ULTRASAT: a wide-field time-domain UV space telescope

Y Shvartzvald, E Waxman, A Gal-Yam… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) is scheduled to be
launched to geostationary orbit in 2027. It will carry a telescope with an unprecedentedly …

A new moment-based general-relativistic neutrino-radiation transport code: Methods and first applications to neutron star mergers

D Radice, S Bernuzzi, A Perego… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a new moment-based energy-integrated neutrino transport code for neutron star
merger simulations in general relativity. In the merger context, ours is the first code to include …

Self-consistent picture of the mass ejection from a one second long binary neutron star merger leaving a short-lived remnant in a general-relativistic neutrino-radiation …

K Kiuchi, S Fujibayashi, K Hayashi, K Kyutoku… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We perform a general-relativistic neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a
one second-long binary neutron star merger on the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku using …

Multimessenger constraints on radiatively decaying axions from GW170817

M Diamond, D Fiorillo, G Marques-Tavares… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The metastable hypermassive neutron star produced in the coalescence of two neutron stars
can copiously produce axions that radiatively decay into O (100) MeV photons. These …

The critical role of nuclear heating rates, thermalization efficiencies, and opacities for kilonova modelling and parameter inference

M Bulla - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present an improved version of the 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code possis to
model kilonovae from neutron star mergers, wherein nuclear heating rates, thermalization …

Neutrino fast flavor conversions in neutron-star postmerger accretion disks

X Li, DM Siegel - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
A compact accretion disk may be formed in the merger of two neutron stars or of a neutron
star and a stellar-mass black hole. Outflows from such accretion disks have been identified …

Signatures of deconfined quark phases in binary neutron star mergers

A Prakash, D Radice, D Logoteta, A Perego, V Nedora… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We investigate the quark deconfinement phase transition in the context of binary neutron
star (BNS) mergers. We treat hadronic matter using a Brueckner-Hartree-Fock quantum …