GW170817- Last Dance of Neutron Star Pair

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This simulation shows the final stages of the merging of two neutron stars. The merger shown in the simulation is happening much faster in reality, within less than a hundredth of a second, and produces strong gravitational waves. The simulation illustrates one of the possible scenarios for the merger event GW170817, detected by the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave network. The outcome could have been a neutron star or a black hole, the latter of which is shown here.

Visualisation: Wolfgang Kastaun Simulation: T. Kawamura, B. Giacomazzo, W. Kastaun, R. Ciolfi, and A. Endrizzi

Acknowledgements Those results were obtained with the help of the following grants: PRACE grant GRSimStar (PI Giacomazzo) MIUR FIR grant No. RBFR13QJYF (PI Giacomazzo)

Reference: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016PhRvD..94f4012K

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Bruno Giacomazzo

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