PIRSA:10060073

Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers: A Current Overview

Etienne, Z. (2010). Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers: A Current Overview. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/10060073

Etienne, Zachariah. Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers: A Current Overview. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 25, 2010, https://pirsa.org/10060073 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:10060073,
            doi = {10.48660/10060073},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/10060073},
            author = {Etienne, Zachariah},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Fully General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers: A Current Overview},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2010},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:10060073 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Zachariah Etienne University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

DOI 10.48660/10060073
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Talk Type Conference

Abstract

Black hole-neutron star binary (BHNS) mergers are likely sources for detectable gravitational radiation and candidate engines for short-hard gamma-ray bursts. However, accurate modeling of these mergers requires fully general relativistic simulations, incorporating both relativistic hydrodynamics for the matter and Einstein's field equations for the (strong) gravitational fields. I will review techniques and results from recent fully general relativistic BHNS merger simulations. These simulations examine the effects of the BH:NS mass ratio, BH spin, and NS equation of state, focusing on both the gravitational waveforms and remnant disk.