Prompt black hole formation in binary neutron star mergers

  • We carry out an in-depth analysis of the prompt-collapse behaviour of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. To this end, we perform more than 80 general relativistic BNS merger simulations using a family of realistic Equations of State (EOS) with different stiffness, which feature a first order deconfinement phase transition between hadronic and quark matter. From these simulations we infer the critical binary mass Mcrit that separates the prompt from the non-prompt collapse regime. We show that the critical mass increases with the stiffness of the EOS and obeys a tight quasi-universal relation, Mcrit/MTOV ≈ 1.41 ± 0.06, which links it to the maximum mass MTOV of static neutron stars, and therefore provides a straightforward estimate for the total binary mass beyond which prompt collapse becomes inevitable. In addition, we introduce a novel gauge independent definition for a one-parameter family of threshold masses in terms of curvature invariants of the Riemann tensor which characterizes the development toward a more rapid collapse with increasing binary mass. Using these diagnostics, we find that the amount of matter remaining outside the black hole sharply drops in supercritical mass mergers compared to subcritical ones and is further reduced in mergers where the black hole collapse is induced by the formation of a quark matter core. This implies that Mcrit, particularly for merger remnants featuring quark matter cores, imposes a strict upper limit on the emission of any detectable electromagnetic counterpart in BNS mergers.

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Author:Christian EckerORCiD, Konrad TopolskiORCiD, Matti JärvinenORCiD, Alina StehrORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-838796
URL:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11013v1
DOI:https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.11013
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11013v1
Parent Title (German):arXiv
Publisher:arXiv
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/02/16
Date of first Publication:2024/02/16
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/05/01
Tag:binary neutron star mergers; black holes; equation of state; neutron stars
Issue:2402.11013v1
Edition:Version 1
Page Number:17
HeBIS-PPN:518857751
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International