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Interior Magnetic Fields in Magnetars and Radio Pulsars
Raj Kishor Joshi, Brynmor Haskell, William Cook +1
Magnetic fields are fundamental for neutron star physics and play a central role in powering the extreme phenomenology of magnetars, including Soft Gamma Repeaters and Anomalous X-…
Subgrid Modelling for Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics with Machine Learning
William Cook, Sebastiano Bernuzzi
Resolving the impact of magnetic field instabilities in triggering small scale turbulent flow and the associated rearrangement of the field is of critical importance in understandi…
Magnetic field dynamics in isolated neutron stars with an external dipole field
Aurora Capobianco, William Cook, Sebastiano Bernuzzi +2
Neutron stars can harbor extremely strong magnetic fields, yet the structure and stability of their magnetic field configuration remain poorly understood. Observations of pulsars i…
GR-Athena++: Binary Neutron Star Merger Simulations with Neutrino Transport
Boris Daszuta, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Maximilian Jacobi +4
We present general-relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers performed with GR-Athena++. Neutrino transport is treated using a moment-b…
Magnetic Field Configurations in Binary Neutron Star Mergers II: Inspiral, Merger and Ejecta
William Cook, Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, Sebastiano Bernuzzi +6
We perform a series of simulations of magnetised Binary Neutron Star mergers, with varying magnetic field topologies in the initial data, as well as varying Equations of State, and…
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…
Covariant and Gauge-invariant Metric-based Gravitational-waves Extraction in Numerical Relativity
Joan Fontbuté, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Simone Albanesi +5
We revisit the problem of gravitational-wave extraction in numerical relativity with gauge-invariant metric perturbation theory of spherical spacetimes. Our extraction algorithm al…
Magnetic Field Configurations in Binary Neutron Star Mergers I: Post-merger Remnant and Disk
Eduardo M. Gutiérrez, William Cook, David Radice +6
We present a suite of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) simulations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers performed with the code GR-Athena++. We investigate how a di…
Turbulence in Magnetised Neutron Stars
William Cook, Raj Kishor Joshi, Sebastiano Bernuzzi +2
The magnetic field configuration in the interior of neutron stars and its stability are open problems and may be impacted by the influence of a turbulent cascade within the star. A…
Time-Variant Vector Field Visualization for Magnetic Fields of Neutron Star Simulations
Simon J. Lieb, William Cook, Jan Hombeck +2
We present a novel visualization application designed to explore the time-dependent development of magnetic fields of neutron stars. The strongest magnetic fields in the universe c…
Binary Black Hole Waveforms from High-Resolution GR-Athena++ Simulations
Alireza Rashti, Rossella Gamba, Koustav Chandra +4
The detection and subsequent inference of binary black hole signals rely heavily on the accuracy of the waveform model employed. In the highly non-linear, dynamic, and strong-field…
Performance-Portable Numerical Relativity with AthenaK
Hengrui Zhu, Jacob Fields, Francesco Zappa +6
We present the numerical relativity module within AthenaK, an open source performance-portable astrophysics code designed for exascale computing applications. This module employs t…
Performance-Portable Binary Neutron Star Mergers with AthenaK
Jacob Fields, Hengrui Zhu, David Radice +4
We introduce an extension to the AthenaK code for general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) in dynamical spacetimes using a 3+1 conservative Eulerian formulation. Like the…
Numerical relativity simulations of compact binaries: comparison of cell- and vertex-centered adaptive meshes
Boris Daszuta, William Cook, Peter Hammond +4
Given the compact binary evolution problem of numerical relativity, in the finite-difference, block-based, adaptive mesh refinement context, choices must be made on how evolved fie…
GR-Athena++: magnetohydrodynamical evolution with dynamical space-time
Boris Daszuta, William Cook
We present a self-contained overview of GR-Athena++, a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) code, that incorporates treatment of dynamical space-time, based on the rec…
Scattering and dynamical capture of two black holes: synergies between numerical and analytical methods
Simone Albanesi, Alireza Rashti, Francesco Zappa +6
We study initially unbound systems of two black holes using numerical relativity (NR) simulations performed with GR-Athena++. We focus on regions of the parameter space close to th…
Smoothing and flattening the universe through slow contraction versus inflation
Anna Ijjas, Paul J. Steinhardt, David Garfinkle +1
In a systematic study, we use an equivalent pair of improved numerical relativity codes based on a tetrad-formulation of the classical Einstein-scalar field equations to examine wh…
Adaptive mesh refinement in binary black holes simulations
Alireza Rashti, Maitraya Bhattacharyya, David Radice +3
We discuss refinement criteria for the Berger-Rigoutsos (block-based) refinement algorithm in our numerical relativity code GR-Athena++ in the context of binary black hole merger s…
GR-Athena++: General-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations of neutron star spacetimes
William Cook, Boris Daszuta, Jacob Fields +5
We present the extension of GR-Athena++ to general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) for applications to neutron star spacetimes. The new solver couples the constrained tra…