9 papers
Exact Mass Conservation in Binary Neutron Star Merger Simulations
Boris Daszuta, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Joan Fontbuté +4
A long-standing problem in the simulation of neutron star spacetimes is the treatment of vacuum regions outside the stars. The use of an artificial low-density atmosphere is a comm…
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 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…
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…