Neutron-star mergers and numerical relativity

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• Masaru Shibata, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
• Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:15-15:15
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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Merger of neutron-star binaries (neutron star-neutron star or black hole-neutron star binaries) is one of the promising sources of gravitational waves, and a source of high-energy phenomena like gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae. The first direct detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts from a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) show this fact. In this talk, I will first give a broad review for the observational results of GW170817 and summarize the theoretical prediction of neutron-star mergers based on numerical simulation in general relativity (numerical relativity). Then, I will show that the observational results of the kilonova (observational results of the optical and infrared band) are well interpreted by the numerical relativity results.

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