3 papers
gr-qc1999
Collision of 1.4 Neutron Stars: Dynamical or Quasi-Equilibrium?
Mark Miller, Wai-Mo Suen, Malcolm Tobias
Shapiro put forth a conjecture stating that neutron stars in head-on collisions (infalling from infinity) will not collapse to black holes before neutrino cooling, independent of t…
gr-qc1997
Newtonian and post-Newtonian binary neutron star mergers
Hisa-aki Shinkai, Wai-Mo Suen, F. Douglas Swesty +3
We present two of our efforts directed toward the numerical analysis of neutron star mergers, which are the most plausible sources for gravitational wave detectors that should begi…
gr-qc1994
3D Numerical Relativity at NCSA
Peter Anninos, Karen Camarda, Joan Masso +4
Numerical relativity is finally coming of age with the development of massively parallel computers. 3D problems, which were completely intractable several years ago due to limited…