Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets

TD Russell, N Degenaar, J van den Eijnden… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Relativistic jets are observed from accreting and cataclysmic transients throughout the
Universe, and have a profound impact on their surroundings,. Despite their importance, their …

Accreting Neutron Stars in 3D General-relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations: Jets, Magnetic Polarity, and the Interchange Slingshot

K Parfrey, A Tchekhovskoy - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Accreting neutron stars differ from black holes by the presence of the star's own magnetic
field, whose interaction with the accretion flow is a central component in understanding …

Constraining the properties of the thermonuclear burst oscillation source XTE J1814− 338 through pulse profile modelling

Y Kini, T Salmi, S Vinciguerra, AL Watts… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Pulse profile modelling (PPM) is a comprehensive relativistic ray-tracing technique
employed to determine the properties of neutron stars. In this study, we apply this technique …

Bright X-ray pulsars: how outflows influence beaming, pulsations and pulse phase lags

AA Mushtukov, S Portegies Zwart - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Extreme accretion in X-ray pulsars (XRPs) results in radiation-driven outflows launched from
the inner parts of the accretion disc. The outflows affect the apparent luminosity of the XRPs …

Hybrid approach to long-term binary neutron-star simulations

HHY Ng, JL Jiang, C Musolino, C Ecker, SD Tootle… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
One of the main challenges in the numerical modeling of binary neutron-star mergers are
long-term simulations of the postmerger remnant over timescales of the order of seconds …

Radio monitoring of transient Be/X-ray binaries and the inflow–outflow coupling of strongly magnetized accreting neutron stars

J van den Eijnden, N Degenaar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Strongly magnetized (B≥ 1012 G) accreting neutron stars (NSs) are prime
targets for studying the launching of jets by objects with a solid surface; while classical jet …

Microphysical plasma relations from special-relativistic turbulence

C Meringolo, A Cruz-Osorio, L Rezzolla… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The microphysical, kinetic properties of astrophysical plasmas near accreting compact
objects are still poorly understood. For instance, in modern general-relativistic …

Magnetically confined mountains on accreting neutron stars with multipole magnetic fields

K Fujisawa, S Kisaka, Y Kojima - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Magnetically confined mountains on accreting neutron stars are candidates for producing
continuous gravitational waves. We formulate a magnetically confined mountain on a …

Does the Gamma-Ray Binary LS I+ 61° 303 Harbor a Magnetar?

AG Suvorov, K Glampedakis - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The high-mass X-ray binary LS I+ 61 303 is also cataloged as a gamma-ray binary as a
result of frequent outbursts at TeV photon energies. The system has released two soft …

Three-dimensional GRMHD simulations of neutron star jets

P Das, O Porth - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutron stars and black holes in X-ray binaries are observed to host strong collimated jets in
the hard spectral state. Numerical simulations can act as a valuable tool in understanding …