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Emergence of microphysical bulk viscosity in binary neutron star post-merger dynamics
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In nuclear matter in isolated neutron stars, the flavor content (e.g., proton fraction) is subject to weak interactions, establishing flavor ($\beta$-)equilibrium. However, there can be deviations from this equilibrium during the merger of two neutron stars. We study the resulting out-of-equilibrium dynamics during the collision by incorporating direct and modified Urca processes (in the neutrino-transparent regime) into general-relativistic hydrodynamics simulations with a simplified neutrino transport scheme. We demonstrate how weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity in post-merger simulations can emerge and assess the bulk viscous dynamics of the resulting flow. We further place limits on the impact on the post-merger gravitational wave strain. Our results show that weak-interaction-driven bulk viscosity can potentially lead to a phase shift of the post-merger gravitational wave spectrum, although the effect is currently on the same level as the numerical errors of our simulation.
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