Speaker
Masaru Shibata
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics at Potsdam)
Description
Numerical relativity plays many important roles in astrophysics and general relativity, e.g., in understanding mergers of black holes and neutron stars, formation processes of black holes for a wide variety of stellar collapse, and launching mechanisms of jets. In this talk, I will summarize our current understanding of the merger and post-processes for neutron-star binaries introducing our latest results of numerical simulations. I will pay particular attention to nucleosynthesis of heavy elements and provide predictions for the future observations and also give a speculation for the merger process of GW170817 if I have time.
Author
Masaru Shibata
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics at Potsdam)
