{
  "id": "1303.0837",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-03-04T21:00:01.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-03-04T21:00:01.000Z",
  "title": "Numerical Relativity Simulations of Magnetized Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers",
  "authors": [
    "Zachariah B. Etienne",
    "Yuk Tung Liu",
    "Vasileios Paschalidis",
    "Stuart L. Shapiro"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Proceedings of the 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present new numerical techniques we developed for launching the first parameter study of {\\it magnetized} black hole--neutron star (BHNS) mergers, varying the magnetic fields seeded in the initial neutron star. We found that magnetic fields have a negligible impact on the gravitational waveforms and bulk dynamics of the system during merger, regardless of magnetic field strength or BH spin. In a recent simulation, we seeded the remnant disk from an unmagnetized BHNS merger simulation with large-scale, purely poloidal magnetic fields, which are otherwise absent in the full simulation. The outcome appears to be a viable sGRB central engine.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-03-04T21:00:01.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "magnetized black hole-neutron star mergers",
      "numerical relativity simulations",
      "initial neutron star",
      "magnetic field strength"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1142/9789814623995_0063"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1222432,
      "adsabs": "2013arXiv1303.0837E"
    }
  }
}