3:15 PM–5:39 PM, Sunday, April 23, 2006
Hyatt Regency Dallas - Landmark C
Sponsoring Units:
GGR COM
Chair: Deirdre Shoemaker, The Pennsylvania State University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2006.APR.L3.3
4:27 PM–5:03 PM
Thomas Baumgarte
(Bowdoin College)
In this talk I will review recent progress in numerical relativity simulations of neutron stars in compact binaries. I will first discuss the construction of initial data that model binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries in quasi-equilibrium. I will then describe dynamical evolution calculations of such binaries that simulate the neutron stars' coalescence, collapse or tidal disruption, and I will close by discussing some of the astrophysical implications of these simulations.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2006.APR.L3.3