68 research outputs found
Stationary Structures of Irrotational Binary Systems: Models for Close Binary Systems of Compact Stars
We propose a new numerical method to calculate irrotational binary systems composed of compressible gaseous stars in Newtonian gravity. Assuming irrotationality, i.e., vanishing of the vorticity vector everywhere in the star in the inertial frame, we can introduce the velocity potential for the flow field. Using this velocity potential we can derive a set of basic equations for stationary states that consist of (1) the generalized Bernoulli equation, (2) the Poisson equation for the Newtonian gravitational potential, and (3) the equation for the velocity potential with the Neumann-type boundary condition. We succeeded in developing a new code to compute numerically exact solutions to these equations for the first time. Such irrotational configurations of binary systems are appropriate models for realistic neutron star binaries composed of inviscid gases, just prior to coalescence of two stars caused by emission of gravitational waves. Accuracies of our numerical solutions are so high that we can compute reliable models for fully deformed final stationary configurations and hence determine the inner most stable circular orbit of binary neutron star systems under the approximations of weak gravity and inviscid limit
Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries: nonspinning black hole case
We perform a simulation for merger of a black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS)
binary in full general relativity preparing a quasicircular state as initial
condition. The BH is modeled by a moving puncture with no spin and the NS by
the -law equation of state with . Corotating velocity field
is assumed for the NS. The mass of the BH and the rest-mass of the NS are
chosen to be and with
relatively large radius of the NS km. The NS is tidally disrupted
near the innermost stable orbit but of the material is swallowed
into the BH with small disk mass even for such small BH
mass . The result indicates that the system of a BH and a
massive disk of is not formed from nonspinning BH-NS binaries,
although a disk of mass is a possible outcome.Comment: 5 pages. Phys. Rev. D 74, 121503 (R) (2006
Irrotational and Incompressible Binary Systems in the First Post-Newtonian Approximation of General Relativity
The first post-Newtonian (PN) hydrostatic equations for an irrotational fluid
are solved for an incompressible binary system. The equilibrium configuration
of the binary system is given by a small deformation from the irrotational
Darwin-Riemann ellipsoid which is the solution at Newtonian order. It is found
that the orbital separation at the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO)
decreases when one increases the compactness parameter ,
in which and denote the mass and the radius of a star,
respectively. If we compare the 1PN angular velocity of the binary system at
the ISCO in units of with that of Newtonian order,
the angular velocity at the ISCO is almost the same value as that at Newtonian
order when one increases the compactness parameter. Also, we do not find the
instability point driven by the deformation at 1PN order, where a new sequence
bifurcates throughout the equilibrium sequence of the binary system until the
ISCO.
We also investigate the validity of an ellipsoidal approximation, in which a
1PN solution is obtained assuming an ellipsoidal figure and neglecting the
deformation. It is found that the ellipsoidal approximation gives a fairly
accurate result for the total energy, total angular momentum and angular
velocity. However, if we neglect the velocity potential of 1PN order, we tend
to overestimate the angular velocity at the ISCO regardless of the shape of the
star (ellipsoidal figure or deformed figure).Comment: 36 pages with 5 figures, revtex, Prog. Theor. Phys. in pres
Quark Matter in Neutron Star Mergers
Binary neutron star mergers are expected to be one of the most promising
source of gravitational waves (GW) for the network of laser interferometric and
bar detectors becoming operational in the next few years. The merger wave
signal is expected to be sensitive to the interior structure of the neutron
star (NS). The structure of high density phases of matter is under current
experimental investigation in heavy-ion collisions. We investigate the
dependence of the merger process and its GW signal on the presence of quarks in
these phases by performing numerical simulations, where the smoothed particle
hydrodynamics (SPH) method and the conformally flat approximation for the
3-geometry in general relativistic gravity are implemented.Comment: 4 Pages, 4 Figures, Proc. Nuclei in the Cosmos 7, 200
Binary neutron stars: Equilibrium models beyond spatial conformal flatness
Equilibria of binary neutron stars in close circular orbits are computed
numerically in a waveless formulation: The full Einstein-relativistic-Euler
system is solved on an initial hypersurface to obtain an asymptotically flat
form of the 4-metric and an extrinsic curvature whose time derivative vanishes
in a comoving frame. Two independent numerical codes are developed, and
solution sequences that model inspiraling binary neutron stars during the final
several orbits are successfully computed. The binding energy of the system near
its final orbit deviates from earlier results of third post-Newtonian and of
spatially conformally flat calculations. The new solutions may serve as initial
data for merger simulations and as members of quasiequilibrium sequences to
generate gravitational wave templates, and may improve estimates of the
gravitational-wave cutoff frequency set by the last inspiral orbit.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figures, revised version, PRL in pres
Merger of black hole-neutron star binaries in full general relativity
We present our latest results for simulation for merger of black hole
(BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries in full general relativity which is performed
preparing a quasicircular state as initial condition. The BH is modeled by a
moving puncture with no spin and the NS by the -law equation of state
with and corotating velocity field as a first step. The mass of the
BH is chosen to be or , and the rest-mass
of the NS with relatively large radius of the NS
--14 km. The NS is tidally disrupted near the innermost stable
orbit but --90% of the material is swallowed into the BH and resulting
disk mass is not very large as even for small BH mass . The result indicates that the system of a BH and a massive disk
of is not formed from nonspinning BH-NS binaries irrespective
of BH mass, although a disk of mass is a possible outcome
for this relatively small BH mass range as --4. Our results
indicate that the merger of low-mass BH and NS may form a central engine of
short-gamma-ray bursts.Comment: 14 pages. To appear in a special issue of Classical and Quantum
Gravity: New Frontiers in Numerical Relativit
Gravitational wave content and stability of uniformly, rotating, triaxial neutron stars in general relativity
Targets for ground-based gravitational wave interferometers include
continuous, quasiperiodic sources of gravitational radiation, such as isolated,
spinning neutron stars. In this work we perform evolution simulations of
uniformly rotating, triaxially deformed stars, the compressible analogues in
general relativity of incompressible, Newtonian Jacobi ellipsoids. We
investigate their stability and gravitational wave emission. We employ five
models, both normal and supramassive, and track their evolution with different
grid setups and resolutions, as well as with two different evolution codes. We
find that all models are dynamically stable and produce a strain that is
approximately one-tenth the average value of a merging binary system. We track
their secular evolution and find that all our stars evolve towards axisymmetry,
maintaining their uniform rotation, kinetic energy, and angular momentum
profiles while losing their triaxiality.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
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