Magnetic Eruption and Nucleosynthesis in GR nu MHD Simulations of Spinning Neutron Star Mergers

arXiv:2605.30548 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-05-28 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-05-28

Updated: 2026-09-22

Comments: 23 pages, 28 figures, REVTeX 4.2, accepted to PRD

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Initial Data — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular Momentum Transport — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Rochester Institute of Technology — 2× in this paper
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Gravitational Wave Emission — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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