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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 6: Numerical Relativity

GR 6.2: Talk

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 11:45–12:00, HS 4

Electromagnetic Counterpart of Neutron Star Mergers — •Vsevolod Nedora and Sebastiano Bernuzzi — Theoretisch-Physikalisches Institut, Jena, Germany

Neutron star merger is a unique cosmic laboratory to investigate general relativity in a strong field regime and fundamental physics, including dense matter and heavy-elements-nucleosynthesis.

Our work focuses on the kilonovae counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW170817. We study the merger dynamics and light curves employing state of the art numerical general relativistic simulations. We provide further insights into the properties of the equation of state of neutron stars and nucleosynthetic yields.