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Thursday 21 March, 2013 12:30 to 13:00 |
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Conference |
Models of Black-Hole Accretion Tori as Remnants of Neutron-Star Mergers Speaker: Oliver Just, Max-Planck Institute Astrophysics

Authors: Oliver Just


"A likely remnant of a binary neutron-star merger or a neutron-star black-hole merger is a black
hole surrounded by a differentially rotating disk of neutron-star debris. Besides being the
favored candidate system for the central engine of a short gamma-ray burst, it is generally
speculated that during the first few hundreds of milliseconds after its formation the disk could
release massive outflows which, if they are sufficiently neutron-rich, could be a relevant
contributor to the repertoire of r-process elements in the universe. Unfortunately, modeling the
black-hole torus system is very challenging, mainly on account of the combined computational
difficulties associated with multidimensional neutrino transport and turbulent angular momentum
transport. In the talk, I will first present a radiation-magnetohydrodynamics code including
energy-dependent, multidimensional two-moment neutrino transport which was recently developed to
model the aforementioned systems. Afterwards, I will show and discuss the essential results we
obtained for our models of viscous and magnetized black-hole torus systems."
Morning Sessions Place: Salon Grados
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