Producing Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star Mergers
@article{Price2006ProducingUM, title={Producing Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star Mergers}, author={Daniel J. Price and Stephan Rosswog}, journal={Science}, year={2006}, volume={312}, pages={719 - 722} }
We report an extremely rapid mechanism for magnetic field amplification during the merger of a binary neutron star system. This has implications for the production of the short class of gamma-ray bursts, which recent observations suggest may originate in such mergers. In detailed magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the merger process, the fields are amplified by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities beyond magnetar field strength and may therefore represent the strongest magnetic fields in the universe…
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