Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries in full general relativity

Masaru Shibata; Koji Uryu

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S09

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Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries in full general relativity

arXiv:astro-ph/0611522 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S09

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We present our latest results for simulation for merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries in full general relativity which is performed preparing a quasicircular state as initial condition. The BH is modeled by a moving puncture with no spin and the NS by the $Γ$ -law equation of state with $Γ = 2$ and corotating velocity field as a first step. The mass of the BH is chosen to be $\approx 3.2 M_{⊙}$ or $4.0 M_{⊙}$ , and the rest-mass of the NS $\approx 1.4 M_{⊙}$ with relatively large radius of the NS $\approx 13$ --14 km. The NS is tidally disrupted near the innermost stable orbit but $\sim 80$ --90% of the material is swallowed into the BH and resulting disk mass is not very large as $\sim 0.3 M_{⊙}$ even for small BH mass $\sim 3.2 M_{⊙}$ . The result indicates that the system of a BH and a massive disk of $\sim M_{⊙}$ is not formed from nonspinning BH-NS binaries irrespective of BH mass, although a disk of mass $\sim 0.1 M_{⊙}$ is a possible outcome for this relatively small BH mass range as $\sim 3$ --4 $M_{⊙}$ . Our results indicate that the merger of low-mass BH and NS may form a central engine of short-gamma-ray bursts.

14 pages. To appear in a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity: New Frontiers in Numerical Relativity

Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries in full general relativity

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