Accretion dynamics in neutron star black hole binaries

Abstract

We perform three-dimensional, Newtonian hydrodynamic simulations with a nuclear equation of state to investigate the accretion dynamics in neutron star black hole systems. We find as a general result that non-spinning donor stars yield larger circularization radii than corotating donors. Therefore, the matter from a neutron star without spin will more likely settle into an accretion disk outside the Schwarzschild radius. With the used stiff equation of state we find it hard to form an accretion disk that is promising to launch a gamma-ray burst. In all relevant cases the core of the neutron star survives and keeps orbiting the black hole as a mini neutron star for the rest of the simulation time (up to several hundred dynamical neutron star times scales). The existence of this mini neutron star leaves a clear imprint on the gravitational wave signal which thus can be used to probe the physics at supra-nuclear densities.

submitted to MNRAS, 23 pages, 16 figures

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