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Title:
High-resolution calculations of merging neutron stars - II. Neutrino emission
Authors:
Rosswog, S.; Liebendörfer, M.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH), AB(CITA, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H8)
Publication:
Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 342, Issue 3, pp. 673-689. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
07/2003
Origin:
MNRAS
Astronomy Keywords:
dense matter, hydrodynamics, neutrinos, methods: numerical, stars: neutron, gamma-rays: bursts
DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06579.x
Bibliographic Code:
2003MNRAS.342..673R

Abstract

The remnant resulting from the merger of two neutron stars produces neutrinos in copious amounts. In this paper we present the neutrino emission results obtained via Newtonian, high-resolution simulations of the coalescence event. These simulations use three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics together with a nuclear, temperature-dependent equation of state and a multiflavour neutrino leakage scheme. We present the details of our scheme, discuss the neutrino emission results from a neutron star coalescence and compare them with the core-collapse supernova case where neutrino emission has been studied for several decades. The average neutrino energies are similar to those in the supernova case, but contrary to the latter, the luminosities are dominated by electron-type antineutrinos that are produced in the hot, neutron-rich, thick disc of the merger remnant. The cooler parts of this disc contain substantial fractions of heavy nuclei, which, however, do not influence the overall neutrino emission results significantly. Our total neutrino luminosities from the merger event are considerably lower than those found in previous investigations. This imposes constraints on the ability of neutron star mergers to produce a gamma-ray burst via neutrino annihilation. The neutrinos are emitted preferentially along the initial binary rotation axis, an event seen `pole-on' would appear much brighter in neutrinos than a similar event seen `edge-on'.

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