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The evolution of relativistic jets through the magnetized medium produced by the fusion of two neutron stars

The evolution of relativistic jets through the magnetized medium produced by the fusion of two neutron stars

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Weniger 304 and https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/98152978145?pwd=MWNqTUpqUlYra08wZVA4U20wMDNKUT09
Leonardo Garcia

The merger of a binary neutron star system results in the emission of a gravitational wave, a highly dense and magnetized environment, and the launch of a collimated relativistic jet which eventually produces a short gamma-ray burst (SGRB). Although the evolution of a jet-SGRB has been studied through different media, the evolution through a magnetized medium is not fully understood. Therefore, to understand the importance of the magnetic field of the medium, we studied the evolution of several SGRB-jets with luminosity $L_{j}=2\times 10^{50} $ erg s$^{-1}$ and an opening angle $\theta_{j}=10^{\circ}$ through media with different distributions and magnitudes of the magnetic field \textbf{B} using 2.5-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic relativistic numerical simulations.

Davide Lazzati