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Mathematical Research at the University of Cambridge

 

We challenge the magnetar scenario for short gamma-ray bursts by performing a high-resolution neutrino magnetohydrodynamics numerical relativity simulation of a binary neutron star merger. We find the alpha Omega dynamo mediated by the magnetorotational instability generates the large-scale magnetic field in the merger remnant. The resultant large-scale field is efficiently wrapped and drives a relativistic Poynting-flux dominated outflow from the merger remnant.

Further information

Time:

20May
May 20th 2024
14:00 to 15:00

Venue:

MR14 DAMTP and online

Speaker:

Kenta Kiuchi (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

Series:

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars