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  • Neutrino Signatures and the...
    Dessart, L; Ott, C. D; Burrows, A; Rosswog, S; Livne, E

    Astrophysical journal/˜The œAstrophysical journal, 2009, Letnik: 690, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    We present VULCAN/2D multigroup flux-limited-diffusion radiation-hydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers, using the Shen equation of state, covering 100 ms, and starting from azimuthal-averaged two-dimensional slices obtained from three-dimensional smooth-particle-hydrodynamics simulations of Rosswog & Price for 1.4 M (baryonic) neutron stars with no initial spins, co-rotating spins, or counter-rotating spins. Snapshots are post-processed at 10 ms intervals with a multiangle neutrino-transport solver. We find polar-enhanced neutrino luminosities, dominated by and ' Delta is a subset of ' neutrinos at the peak, although Delta e emission may be stronger at late times. We obtain typical peak neutrino energies for Delta e , , and ' Delta is a subset of ' of ~ 12, ~ 16, and ~ 22 MeV, respectively. The supermassive neutron star (SMNS) formed from the merger has a cooling timescale of 1 s. Charge-current neutrino reactions lead to the formation of a thermally driven bipolar wind with 10-3 M s-1 and baryon-loading in the polar regions, preventing any production of a gamma -ray burst prior to black hole formation. The large budget of rotational free energy suggests that magneto-rotational effects could produce a much-greater polar mass loss. We estimate that 10-4 M of material with an electron fraction in the range 0.1-0.2 becomes unbound during this SMNS phase as a result of neutrino heating. We present a new formalism to compute the annihilation rate based on moments of the neutrino-specific intensity computed with our multiangle solver. Cumulative annihilation rates, which decay as ~t -1.8, decrease over our 100 ms window from a few X1050 to ~ 1049 erg s-1, equivalent to a few X1054 to ~ 1053 e-e+ pairs per second.