Neutron star merger remnants

S Bernuzzi - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2020 - Springer
Binary neutron star mergers observations are a unique way to constrain fundamental
physics and astrophysics at the extreme. The interpretation of gravitational-wave events and …

Black-hole binaries, gravitational waves, and numerical relativity

J Centrella, JG Baker, BJ Kelly, JR van Meter - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010 - APS
Understanding the predictions of general relativity for the dynamical interactions of two black
holes has been a long-standing unsolved problem in theoretical physics. Black-hole …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

The SXS Collaboration catalog of binary black hole simulations

M Boyle, D Hemberger, DAB Iozzo… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for
detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science …

Improved effective-one-body model of spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes for the era of gravitational-wave astrophysics with advanced detectors

A Bohé, L Shao, A Taracchini, A Buonanno, S Babak… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We improve the accuracy of the effective-one-body (EOB) waveforms that were employed
during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO for binaries of spinning, nonprecessing …

Setting the cornerstone for a family of models for gravitational waves from compact binaries: The dominant harmonic for nonprecessing quasicircular black holes

G Pratten, S Husa, C Garcia-Quiros, M Colleoni… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
In this paper we present imrphenomxas, a thorough overhaul of the imrphenomd [S. Husa,
Phys. Rev. D 93, 044006 (2016) PRVDAQ 2470-0010 10.1103/PhysRevD. 93.044006; S …

Numerical relativity simulations of the neutron star merger GW170817: long-term remnant evolutions, winds, remnant disks, and nucleosynthesis

V Nedora, S Bernuzzi, D Radice… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the dynamical ejecta, winds, and
nucleosynthesis in neutron star (NS) merger remnants. Binaries with the chirp mass …

Science with the space-based interferometer eLISA: Supermassive black hole binaries

A Klein, E Barausse, A Sesana, A Petiteau, E Berti… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We compare the science capabilities of different eLISA mission designs, including four-link
(two-arm) and six-link (three-arm) configurations with different arm lengths, low-frequency …

Strong-field scattering of two spinning black holes: Numerical relativity versus post-Minkowskian gravity

P Rettegno, G Pratten, LM Thomas, P Schmidt… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Highly accurate models of the gravitational wave signal from coalescing compact binaries
are built by completing analytical computations of the binary dynamics with nonperturbative …

The Einstein Toolkit: a community computational infrastructure for relativistic astrophysics

F Löffler, J Faber, E Bentivegna, T Bode… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We describe the Einstein Toolkit, a community-driven, freely accessible
computational infrastructure intended for use in numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics …