The Physics of Extreme-Gravity Stars

Mass ejection from neutron star mergers

Jun 20, 2017, 2:30 PM

30m

FD5 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Numerical simulations and modeling of compact object mergers

Speaker

Masaru Shibata

Description

I will summarize our current understanding for possible mass ejection process in the merger of binary neutron stars and in the post merger phase.