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most citedModeling GW170817 based on numerical relativity and its implications

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gr-qc2026

Gravitational waves from core collapse of rotating very-massive stars: 3D numerical relativity computation

Alan Tsz-Lok Lam, Masaru Shibata, Sho Fujibayashi

We numerically study the collapse of rotating, very-massive stellar cores with masses of , , , and into black holes using both axisymmetric and…

astro-ph.HE2026

A first-principles binary neutron star merger model of GW170817, GRB170817A, and AT2017gfo

Kenta Kiuchi, Sho Fujibayashi, Kota Hayashi +6

The multimessenger observation of the binary neutron star merger event GW170817, associated with its electromagnetic counterparts GRB170817A and AT2017gfo, marked a milestone in as…

astro-ph.HE2026

Explosions from Rotating Very Massive Star Collapses to Black Holes: Effects of Nuclear Burning

Sho Fujibayashi, Alan Tsz-Lok Lam, Yuichiro Sekiguchi +1

We investigate the collapse of rotating very massive and supermassive stellar cores using numerical relativity simulations including an alpha-chain nuclear reaction network and neu…

astro-ph.HE2026

Non-LTE Ionization Modeling for Helium and Strontium in Neutron Star Merger Ejecta

Koya Chiba, Masaomi Tanaka, Shinya Wanajo +3

The material ejected from a binary neutron star merger produces "kilonova," a radioactively powered emission at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The early-phase spec…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Lanthanide Impact on the Infra-Red Spectra of Nebular Phase Kilonovae

Quentin Pognan, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Shinya Wanajo +3

Nebular phase kilonovae (KNe) have significant infra-red (IR) emission thought to be mostly forbidden emission lines from rapid neutron capture (r-process) species in neutron star…

astro-ph.HE2025

Collapse of rotating very massive stellar cores leading to a black hole and a massive disk as a source of gravitational waves

Masaru Shibata, Sho Fujibayashi

We derive models of rotating very massive stellar cores with mass -- which are marginally stable to the pair-unstable collapse, assuming that the core is…

astro-ph.HE2025

Neutrino pair annihilation driven jets from black-hole torus systems

Kyohei Kawaguchi, Sho Fujibayashi, Masaru Shibata

We perform axisymmetric general relativistic radiation-viscous hydrodynamics simulations of black hole (BH)-torus systems with full Boltzmann Monte-Carlo neutrino transport to inve…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Signatures of Exploding Supermassive PopIII Stars at High Redshift in JWST, EUCLID and Roman Space Telescope

Cédric Jockel, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Sho Fujibayashi +1

Recently discovered supermassive black holes with masses of at redshifts - in active galactic nuclei (AGN) pose severe challenges to our understandi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Neutrino flavor instabilities in a binary neutron star merger remnant: Roles of a long-lived hypermassive neutron star

Hiroki Nagakura, Kohsuke Sumiyoshi, Sho Fujibayashi +2

Understanding the post-merger evolution of binary neutron star merger (BNSM) requires accurate modeling of neutrino transport and microphysics including neutrino flavor conversions…

astro-ph.HE2025

Linking Analytic Light Curve Models to Physical Properties of Kilonovae

Ayari Kitamura, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Masaomi Tanaka +1

In binary neutron star mergers, lanthanide-rich dynamical ejecta and lanthanide-poor post-merger ejecta have been often linked to the red and blue kilonova emission, respectively.…

astro-ph.HE2025

Self-consistent scenario for jet and stellar explosion in collapsar: General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulation with dynamo

Masaru Shibata, Sho Fujibayashi, Shinya Wanajo +3

A resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation with a dynamo term is performed for modeling the collapsar in full general relativity. As an initial condition, a spinning black hole an…

astro-ph.HE2024

Long-term Monte Carlo-based neutrino-radiation hydrodynamics simulations for a black hole-torus system

Kyohei Kawaguchi, Sho Fujibayashi, Masaru Shibata

We present our new general relativistic Monte Carlo (MC)-based neutrino radiation hydrodynamics code designed to solve axisymmetric systems with several improvements. The main impr…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Tayler-Spruit dynamo in binary neutron star merger remnants

Alexis Reboul-Salze, Paul Barrère, Kenta Kiuchi +4

In binary neutron star mergers, the remnant can be stabilized by differential rotation before it collapses into a black hole. Therefore, the angular momentum transport mechanisms a…

astro-ph.HE2024

Variety of disc wind-driven explosions in massive rotating stars. II. Dependence on the progenitor

Ludovica Crosato Menegazzi, Sho Fujibayashi, Masaru Shibata +2

We assess the variance of supernova(SN)-like explosions associated with the core collapse of rotating massive stars into a black hole-accretion disc system under changes in the pro…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Threshold mass of the general relativistic instability for supermassive star cores

Masaru Shibata, Sho Fujibayashi, Cédric Jockel +1

The dependence of the final fate of supermassive star (SMS) cores on their mass and angular momentum is studied with simple modeling. SMS cores in the hydrogen burning phase encoun…

astro-ph.HE2024

Powerful explosions from the collapse of rotating supermassive stars

Sho Fujibayashi, Cédric Jockel, Kyohei Kawaguchi +2

We perform new general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations for collapses of rotating supermassive star cores with an approximate nuclear burning up to carbon and a detailed equa…

astro-ph.HE2024

Constraints of the maximum mass of quark stars based on post-merger evolutions

Yurui Zhou, Chen Zhang, Junjie Zhao +3

We semi-analytically investigate the post-merger evolution of the binary quark star merger. The effective-one-body method is employed to estimate the energy and angular momentum di…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Three dimensional end-to-end simulation for kilonova emission from a black-hole neutron-star merger

Kyohei Kawaguchi, Nanae Domoto, Sho Fujibayashi +5

We study long-term evolution of the matter ejected in a black-hole neutron-star (BH-NS) merger employing the results of a long-term numerical-relativity simulation and nucleosynthe…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Variety of disk wind-driven explosions in massive rotating stars

Ludovica Crosato Menegazzi, Sho Fujibayashi, Koh Takahashi +1

We perform a set of two-dimensional, non-relativistic, hydrodynamics simulations for supernova-like explosion associated with stellar core collapse of rotating massive stars to a s…

astro-ph.HE2023

Outflow energy and black-hole spin evolution in collapsar scenarios

Masaru Shibata, Sho Fujibayashi, Alan Tsz-Lok Lam +2

We explore the collapsar scenario for long gamma-ray bursts by performing axisymmetric neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations in full general relativity for the first…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Supernova-like explosion of massive rotating stars from disks surrounding a black hole

Sho Fujibayashi, Alan Tsz-Lok Lam, Masaru Shibata +1

We perform a new general-relativistic viscous-radiation hydrodynamics simulation for supernova-like explosion associated with stellar core collapse of rotating massive stars to a s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Kilonovae of binary neutron star mergers leading to short-lived remnant neutron star formation

Kyohei Kawaguchi, Sho Fujibayashi, Nanae Domoto +3

We study kilonova emission from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers for the case that a remnant massive neutron star (MNS) forms and collapses to a black hole within ms after th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

Actinide-boosting r Process in Black Hole-Neutron Star Merger Ejecta

Shinya Wanajo, Sho Fujibayashi, Kota Hayashi +3

We examine nucleosynthesis in the ejecta of black hole-neutron star mergers based on the results of long-term neutrino-radiation-magnetohydrodynamics simulations for the first time…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 5 cited

Collapse of rotating massive stars leading to black hole formation and energetic supernovae

Sho Fujibayashi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Masaru Shibata +1

We explore a possible scenario of the explosion as a result of core collapses of rotating massive stars that leave a black hole by performing a radiation-viscous-hydrodynamics simu…