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arxiv: 1006.2839 · v2 · submitted 2010-06-14 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.CO· astro-ph.HE

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Mergers of Magnetized Neutron Stars with Spinning Black Holes: Disruption, Accretion and Fallback

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We investigate the merger of a neutron star (of compaction ratio $0.1$) in orbit about a spinning black hole in full general relativity with a mass ratio of $5:1$, allowing for the star to have an initial magnetization of $10^{12} {\rm Gauss}$. We present the resulting gravitational waveform and analyze the fallback accretion as the star is disrupted. The evolutions suggest no significant effects from the initial magnetization. We find that only a negligible amount of matter becomes unbound; $99%$ of the neutron star material has a fallback time of 10 seconds or shorter to reach the region of the central engine and that $99.99%$ of the star will interact with the central disk and black hole within 3 hours.

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