Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-11-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A, included changes based on referee comments
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20066682
An extended set of binary neutron star (NS) merger simulations is performed with an approximative conformally flat treatment of general relativity to systematically investigate the influence of the nuclear equation of state (EoS), the neutron star masses, and the NS spin states prior to merging. We employ the two non-zero temperature EoSs of Shen et al. (1998a,b) and Lattimer & Swesty (1991). In addition, we use the cold EoS of Akmal et al. (1998) with a simple ideal-gas-like extension according to Shibata & Taniguchi (2006), and an ideal-gas EoS with parameters fitted to the supernuclear part of the Shen-EoS. We estimate the mass sitting in a dilute high-angular momentum ``torus'' around the future black hole (BH). The dynamics and outcome of the models is found to depend strongly on the EoS and on the binary parameters. Larger torus masses are found for asymmetric systems (up to ~0.3 M_sun for a mass ratio of 0.55), for large initial NSs, and for a NS spin state which corresponds to a larger total angular momentum. We find that the postmerger remnant collapses either immediately or after a short time when employing the soft EoS of Lattimer& Swesty, whereas no sign of post-merging collapse is found within tens of dynamical timescales for all other EoSs used. The typical temperatures in the torus are found to be about 3-10 MeV depending on the strength of the shear motion at the collision interface between the NSs and thus depending on the initial NS spins. About 10^{-3}-10^{-2} M_sun of NS matter become gravitationally unbound during or right after the merging process. This matter consists of a hot/high-entropy component from the collision interface and (only in case of asymmetric systems) of a cool/low-entropy component from the spiral arm tips. (abridged)
Janka H.-Th.
Marek Andreas
Oechslin Roland
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