BH-NS merger simulations find a nearly universal dimensionless magnetic flux on the black hole across two decades of disk mass, which, extrapolated with prior long-term runs, implies all BH-NS mergers produce long-duration gamma-ray bursts.
Large Eddy Simulations of Magnetized Mergers of Neutron Stars with Neutrinos
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Neutron star mergers are very violent events involving extreme physical processes: dynamic, strong-field gravity, large magnetic field, very hot, dense matter, and the copious production of neutrinos. Accurate modeling of such a system and its associated multi-messenger signals, such as gravitational waves, short gamma ray burst, and kilonova, requires the inclusion of all these processes, and is increasingly important in light of advancements in multi-messenger astronomy generally, and in gravitational wave astronomy in particular (such as the development of third-generation detectors). Several general relativistic codes have been incorporating some of these elements with different levels of realism. Here, we extend our code MHDuet, which can perform large eddy simulations of magnetohydrodynamics to help capture the magnetic field amplification during the merger, and to allow for realistic equations of state and neutrino cooling via a leakage scheme. We perform several tests involving isolated and binary neutron stars demonstrating the accuracy of the code.
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Implications of Magnetic Flux-Disk Mass Correlation in Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers for GRB sub-populations
BH-NS merger simulations find a nearly universal dimensionless magnetic flux on the black hole across two decades of disk mass, which, extrapolated with prior long-term runs, implies all BH-NS mergers produce long-duration gamma-ray bursts.