Prompt Merger Collapse and the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars
Andreas BausweinMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany and Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, GreeceThomas W. BaumgarteDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011, USAHans‐Thomas JankaMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
2013en
ABI
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We perform hydrodynamical simulations of neutron-star mergers for a large sample of temperature-dependent nuclear equations of state and determine the threshold mass above which the merger remnant promptly collapses to form a black hole. We find that, depending on the equation of state, the threshold mass is larger than the maximum mass of a nonrotating star in isolation by between 30 and 70 percent. Our simulations also show that the ratio between the threshold mass and maximum mass is tightly correlated with the compactness of the nonrotating maximum-mass configuration. We speculate on how this relation can be used to derive constraints on neutron-star properties from future observations.
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