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3D General Relativistic Simulations of Coalescing Binary Neutron Stars
We develop a 3 dimensional computer code to study a coalescing neutron star
binary. The code can currently follow the evolution up to two stars begin to
merge from two spherical stars of mass 1 solar mass and radius 8.9km with
separation 35.4km. As for coordinate conditions, we use conformal slicing and
pseudo-minimal distortion conditions. The evolution equations for the metric is
integrated using the CIP method while the van Leer's scheme is used to
integrate the equations for the matter. We present a few results of our
simulations including gravitational radiation.Comment: invited talk at Yukawa Internatinal Seminar (YKIS99) 17 pages, 11
figures, for associated movie files, see
http://astro.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp/~oohara/ykis99
Hoop Conjecture and Black Holes on a Brane
The initial data of gravity for a cylindrical matter distribution confined to
a brane are studied in the framework of the single-brane Randall-Sundrum
scenario. In this scenario, the 5-dimensional nature of gravity appears in the
short-range gravitational interaction. We find that a sufficiently thin
configuration of matter leads to the formation of a marginal surface, even if
the configuration is infinitely long. This implies that the hoop conjecture
proposed by Thorne does not hold on the brane: Even if a mass does not
become compacted into a region whose circumference in every
direction satisfies , black holes with horizons can form in
the Randall-Sundrum scenario.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, To be published in Progress of Theoretical Physics
Supplement No. 148 "Brane World: New Perspective in Cosmology
Numerical study on the hydrodynamic instability of binary stars in the first post Newtonian approximation of general relativity
We present numerical results on the hydrodynamic stability of coalescing
binary stars in the first post Newtonian(1PN) approximation of general
relativity. We pay particular attention to the hydrodynamical instability of
corotating binary stars in equilibrium states assuming the stiff polytropic
equation of state with the adiabatic constant . In previous 1PN
numerical studies on corotating binary stars in equilibrium states, it was
found that along the sequence of binary stars as a function of the orbital
separation, they have the energy and/or angular momentum minima where the
secular instability sets in, and that with increase of the 1PN correction, the
orbital separation at these minima decreases while the angular velocity there
increases. In this paper, to know the location of the innermost stable circular
orbit(ISCO), we perform numerical simulations and find where the hydrodynamical
instability along the corotating sequences of binary sets in. From the
numerical results, we found that the dynamical stability limit seems to exist
near the energy and/or angular momentum minima not only in the Newtonian, but
also in the 1PN cases. This means that the 1PN effect of general relativity
increases the angular frequency of gravitational waves at the ISCO.Comment: 16 pages(11 figures). To appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. vol.98(1997
Axionic Mirage Mediation
Although the mirage mediation is one of the most plausible mediation
mechanisms of supersymmetry breaking, it suffers from two crucial problems. One
is the \mu-/B \mu-problem and the second is the cosmological one. The former
stems from the fact that the B parameter tends to be comparable with the
gravitino mass, which is two order of magnitude larger than the other soft
masses. The latter problem is caused by the decay of the modulus whose
branching ratio into the gravitino pair is sizable. In this paper, we propose a
model of mirage mediation, in which Peccei-Quinn symmetry is incorporated. In
this axionic mirage mediation, it is shown that the PQ symmetry breaking scale
is dynamically determined around 10^{10-12} GeV due to the supersymmetry
breaking effects, and the \mu-problem can be solved naturally. Furthermore, in
our model, the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) is the axino, that is the
superpartner of the axion. The overabundance of the LSPs due to decays of
modulus/gravitino, which is the most serious cosmological difficulty in the
mirage mediation, can be avoided if the axino is sufficiently light. The
next-LSPs (NLSPs) produced by the gravitino decay eventually decay into the
axino LSPs, yielding the dominant component of the axinos remaining today. It
is shown that the axino with the mass of O(100) MeV is naturally realized,
which can constitute the dark matter of the Universe, with the free-streaming
length of the order of 0.1 Mpc. The saxion, the real scalar component of the
axion supermultiplet, can also be cosmologically harmless due to the dilution
of the modulus decay. The lifetime of NLSP is relatively long, but much shorter
than 1 sec., when the big-bang nucleosynthesis commences. The decay of NLSP
would provide intriguing collider signatures.Comment: reference added, typo correcte
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