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most citedLight Nuclei and Hypernuclei from Quantum Chromodynamics in the Limit of SU(3) Flavor Symmetry

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astro-ph.HE2026

Joint Detection and Characterization of the Standing Accretion Shock Instability for Core-Collapse Supernovae with cWB XP

Vicente Sierra, Zidu Lin, Michelle Zanolin +3

The most sensitive to-date multimessenger detection of the standing accretion shock instability in real interferometric data is presented, which quantitatively identifies the prese…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Neutrino flavor instabilities in neutron star mergers with moment transport: Slow, fast, and collisional modes

Julien Froustey, Francois Foucart, Christian Hall +5

Determining where, when, and how neutrino flavor oscillations must be included in large-scale simulations of hot and dense astrophysical environments is an enduring challenge that…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Equation-of-state-informed pulse profile modeling

Mariska Hoogkamer, Nathan Rutherford, Daniela Huppenkothen +9

NICER has enabled mass-radius inferences for pulsars using pulse profile modeling (PPM), providing constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of cold, dense matter. To date, PPM an…

astro-ph.HE2025

Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with the POLAR and POLAR-2 missions

Nicolas De Angelis, Philipp Azzarello, Franck Cadoux +15

Gamma-Ray Bursts are among the most powerful and violent events in the Universe. Despite over half a century of observations of these transient sources, many open questions remain…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Investigating the Impact of Higher-Order Phase Transitions in Binary Neutron-Star Mergers

P. Hammond, A. Clevinger, M. Albino +10

In this paper we investigate quark deconfinement in neutrons stars and their mergers, focusing on the effects of higher orders for the phase transition between hadronic and quark m…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Magnetic Flux Emergence in Binary Neutron Star Remnants

Jacob Fields, David Radice, Peter Hammond

Using high-resolution AthenaK simulations of a twisted toroidal flux tube, we study the flux emergence of magnetic structures in the shear layer of a hot massive neutron star typic…

astro-ph.HE2025

Recurring region for neutron-star observables

Alexander Clevinger, Zidu Lin, Milena Albino +3

In this letter, we report a novel, somewhat analytical way to produce equations of state (EOSs) that generate particular values of neutron star mass, radius, and tidal deformabilit…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

Limits on the Ejecta Mass During the Search for Kilonovae Associated with Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers: A case study of S230518h, GW230529, S230627c and the Low-Significance Candidate S240422ed

M. Pillas, S. Antier, K. Ackley +78

Neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers, detectable via their gravitational-wave (GW) emission, are expected to produce kilonovae (KNe). Four NSBH candidates have been identified an…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Advection Algorithms for Quantum Neutrino Moment Transport

Evan Grohs, Sherwood Richers, Julien Froustey +3

Neutrino transport in compact objects is an inherently challenging multi-dimensional problem. This difficulty is compounded if one includes flavor transformation -- an intrinsicall…

astro-ph.HE2024

A Two-Week Monitoring Campaign on Mrk 421

W. Peter Maksym, Ioannis Liodakis, M. Lynne Saade +153

X-ray polarization is a unique new probe of the particle acceleration in astrophysical jets made possible through the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Here we report on the firs…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 10 cited

Influence of neutrino-electron scattering and neutrino-pair annihilation on hypermassive neutron star

Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Francois Foucart, Harry Ho-Yin Ng +4

We investigate the influence of inelastic neutrino microphysics in general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations of a hypermassive neutron star. In particular, we include s…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Probing fermionic asymmetric dark matter cores using global neutron star properties

Nathan Rutherford, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Anna Watts

It is possible for asymmetric dark matter (ADM) to accumulate in neutron star interiors and affect their global properties. Considering the effects of this accumulation, neutron st…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

General-relativistic resistive-magnetohydrodynamics simulations of self-consistent magnetized rotating neutron stars

Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Antonios Tsokaros, Milton Ruiz +4

We present the first general-relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations of self-consistent, rotating neutron stars with mixed poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields. Sp…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 23 cited

Asymptotic-state prediction for fast flavor transformation in neutron star mergers

Sherwood Richers, Julien Froustey, Somdutta Ghosh +2

Neutrino flavor instabilities appear to be omnipresent in dense astrophysical environments, thus presenting a challenge to large-scale simulations of core-collapse supernovae and n…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

General relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of binary strange star mergers

Francesco Grippa, Aviral Prakash, Domenico Logoteta +2

We perform fully general-relativistic simulations of binary strange star mergers considering two different approaches for thermal effects. The first uses a cold equation of state (…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Three-flavor, Full Momentum Space Neutrino Spin Oscillations in Neutron Star Mergers

Henry Purcell, Sherwood Richers, Amol V. Patwardhan +1

In the presence of anisotropic neutrino and antineutrino fluxes, the quantum kinetic equations drive coherent oscillations in neutrino helicity, frequently referred to as spin osci…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 8 cited

High angular momentum hot differentially rotating equilibrium star evolutions in conformally flat spacetime

Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Nishad Muhammed, Pavan Chawhan +5

The conformal flatness approximation to the Einstein equations has been successfully used in many astrophysical applications such as initial data constructions and dynamical simula…

astro-ph.HE2024

Fundamental modes of rotating neutron stars with various degrees of differential rotation in dynamical spacetimes

Anson Ka Long Yip, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Violent astrophysical events, including core-collapse supernovae and binary neutron star mergers, can result in rotating neutron stars with diverse degrees of differential rotation…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 34 cited

Neutrino fast flavor oscillations with moments: linear stability analysis and application to neutron star mergers

Julien Froustey, Sherwood Richers, Evan Grohs +4

Providing an accurate modeling of neutrino physics in dense astrophysical environments such as binary neutron star mergers presents a challenge for hydrodynamic simulations. Nevert…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Gravitational wave signatures from the phase-transition-induced collapse of a magnetized neutron star

Anson Ka Long Yip, Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong, Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

Strong magnetic fields make neutron stars potential sources of detectable electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals. Hence, inferring these magnetic fields is critical to unde…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 2 cited

Looking Under a Better Lamppost: MeV-scale Dark Matter Candidates

Regina Caputo, Tim Linden, John Tomsick +6

The era of precision cosmology has revealed that about 85% of the matter in the universe is dark matter. Two well-motivated candidates are weakly interacting massive particles (WIM…

astro-ph.HE2019

Probing the Cosmological Evolution of Super-massive Black Holes using Tidal Disruption Flares

Dheeraj R. Pasham, Dacheng Lin, Richard Saxton +5

The question of how supermassive black holes (SMBHs) grow over cosmic time is a major puzzle in high-energy astrophysics. One promising approach to this problem is via the study of…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 3 cited

Milagro Observations of Potential TeV Emitters

A. A. Abdo, A. U. Abeysekara, B. T. Allen +32

This paper reports the results from three targeted searches of Milagro TeV sky maps: two extragalactic point source lists and one pulsar source list. The first extragalactic candid…