5 papers
Thermal and Magnetic effects on Bulk Viscosity in Binary Neutron Star Mergers
Pranjal Tambe, Debarati Chatterjee, Mark Alford +1
Astrophysical scenarios such as binary neutron star mergers, protoneutron stars, and core-collapse supernovae involve finite temperatures and strong magnetic fields. Previous studi…
Thermalization of Neutrinos in a Neutron Star Merger Simulation
Mark G. Alford, Liam Brodie, Francois Foucart +1
We study the neutrino distributions that arise in a simulation of a neutron star merger that uses a Monte Carlo (MC) neutrino transport scheme. In a snapshot taken 1 ms after merge…
Neutrino absorption in two-flavor color-superconducting quark matter
Mark G. Alford, Liam Brodie, Michael Buballa +3
We calculate the absorption mean free paths of electron and muon neutrinos in two-flavor color-superconducting (2SC) quark matter in the density and temperature range that is relev…
Effect of Magnetic Fields on Urca Rates in Neutron Star Mergers
Pranjal Tambe, Debarati Chatterjee, Mark Alford +1
Isospin-equilibrating weak processes, called ``Urca" processes, are of fundamental importance in astrophysical environments like (proto-)neutron stars, neutron star mergers, and su…
Building Neutron Stars with the MUSES Calculation Engine
Mateus Reinke Pelicer, Nikolas Cruz-Camacho, Carlos Conde +25
Exploring the equation of state of dense matter is an essential part of interpreting the observable properties of neutron stars. We present here the first results for dense matter…