File:Binary Neutron Star Merger (with magnetic fields).webm
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English: This movie shows the final stages of the coalescence and the merging of two neutron stars. Neutron stars are dense objects created in certain supernova explosions, and concentrate around 1.5 solar masses inside a radius less than 20 km. Further, they can have extreme magnetic fields. The merging of two neutron stars is believed to be the source of the frequently observed so-called short gamma ray bursts, and is also the most likely source for the creation of heavy elements in the universe, such as gold. In the movie, the white solid surfaces depict the surfaces of the two neutron stars and the merged object. The latter collapses to a black hole after a while, shown in yellow for better visibility. Afterwards, various amplification effects create strong magnetic fields near the black hole, shown as transparent colors. This movie illustrates a possible scenario for an event ("GW170817") that was recently detected by the LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave detector network as well as the Fermi and INTEGRAL gamma-ray observatories, and many other telescopes. The magnetic field likely plays a key role in the gamma-ray emission, but the exact mechanism is still a field of active research, in particular with the help of computer simulations such as the one this movie is based on.
Visualisation: Wolfgang Kastaun Simulation: T. Kawamura, B. Giacomazzo, W. Kastaun, R. Ciolfi, and A. Endrizzi Acknowledgements Those results were obtained with the help of the following grants: PRACE grant GRSimStar (PI Giacomazzo) MIUR FIR grant No. RBFR13QJYF (PI Giacomazzo) Reference: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PhRvD..94f4012K |
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| Source | YouTube: Binary Neutron Star Merger (with magnetic fields) – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today |
| Author | Bruno Giacomazzo |
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