Poster abstract details
Merge of two quark stars.Newtonian 3D Hydrodynamic Simulation
Abstract
We present Newtonian three dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the merger of two quark stars.
The objective is to find out how much quark matter is expelled due to the merger and its velocity. This is important because of the speculations that such ejecta may convert neutron stars to quark stars.
The initial conditions correspond to non-spinning stars in Keplerian orbits, the code includes gravitational radiation reaction in the quadrupole approximation for point masses. We have scenarios with stars of the same mass and with different masses in order to see the differences between the mergers and the ejected quark material.
The objective is to find out how much quark matter is expelled due to the merger and its velocity. This is important because of the speculations that such ejecta may convert neutron stars to quark stars.
The initial conditions correspond to non-spinning stars in Keplerian orbits, the code includes gravitational radiation reaction in the quadrupole approximation for point masses. We have scenarios with stars of the same mass and with different masses in order to see the differences between the mergers and the ejected quark material.