Long-Term Simulations of Dynamical Ejecta: Homologous Expansion and Kilonova Properties
arXiv:2208.13460 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.023016
Abstract
Accurate numerical-relativity simulations are essential to study the rich phenomenology of binary neutron star systems. In this work, we focus on the material that is dynamically ejected during the merger process and on the kilonova transient it produces. Typically, radiative transfer simulations of kilonova light curves from ejecta make the assumption of homologous expansion, but this condition might not always be met at the end of usually very short numerical-relativity simulations. In this article, we adjust the infrastructure of the BAM code to enable longer simulations of the dynamical ejecta with the aim of investigating when the condition of homologous expansion is satisfied. In fact, we observe that the deviations from a perfect homologous expansion are about 30% at roughly 100ms after the merger. To determine how these deviations might affect the calculation of kilonova light curves, we extract the ejecta data for different reference times and use them as input for radiative transfer simulations. Our results show that the light curves for extraction times later than 80ms after the merger deviate by less than 0.4mag and are mostly consistent with numerical noise. Accordingly, deviations from the homologous expansion for the dynamical ejecta component are negligible for the purpose of kilonova modelling.
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