Microphysical Aspects of Binary Neutron Star Mergers
摘要
Neutron stars and their mergers challenge our fundamental understanding of dense matter and strong gravity. We present three projects that cover different aspects of these systems, namely the formation of quark matter in neutron star mergers, the determination of the limiting mass to prompt black hole formation and the dynamics of charged particles that occur in magnetised plasmas such as formed around black holes in these events. We also give a brief introduction to the numerical techniques used to model these scenarios and summarise their performance on the HAWK supercomputer system.