Compact Object Mergers

Presentations

• A Library of Post-Neutron-Star-Merger GRνMHD Disk Simulations: Ejecta, Nucleosynthesis, and Kilonova Implications

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Marko Ristić

    • LANL

  Authors

  • Marko Ristić

    • LANL

  • Jonah Miller

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Chris Fryer

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Ryan Wollaeger

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Oleg Korobkin

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Christopher Fontes

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Matthew Mumpower

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Richard O'Shaughnessy

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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• Binary Neutron Star Mergers with Spinning Components and Second-Moment Neutrino Transport

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Allen Wen

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Allen Wen

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Jay Kalinani

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Michail Chabanov

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Yosef Zlochower

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Riccardo Ciolfi

    • INAF-Padova

  • Manuela Campanelli

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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• Modelling the Tayler–Spruit Dynamo in the Global Evolution of Long-lived Hypermassive Neutron Star Remnants

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • HO YIN NG

    • Caltech

  Authors

  • HO YIN NG

    • Caltech

  • Elias Most

    • Caltech

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• Magnetic flux emergence in binary neutron star remnants

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Jacob Fields

    • Insitute for Advanced Study

  Authors

  • Jacob Fields

    • Insitute for Advanced Study

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• Progenitor-Based Classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Machine Learning

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada8a9

  Presenters

  • Skye Strain

    • Louisiana State University

  Authors

  • Michela Negro

    • Louisiana State University

  • Eric Burns

    • Louisiana State University

  • Nicolò Cibrario

    • Università degli Studi di Torino

  • Skye Strain

    • Louisiana State University

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• Post-merger accretion of magnetized circumbinary disk onto a recoiled BBH merger remnant

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Yoonsoo Kim

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Yoonsoo Kim

    • Princeton University

  • Elias Most

    • Caltech

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• Accretion, Jets, and Recoil in Merging Supermassive Binary Black Holes

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2510.05883
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.10319

  Presenters

  • Maria Chiara de Simone

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Maria Chiara de Simone

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Manuela Campanelli

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Lorenzo Ennoggi

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Carlos Lousto

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Yosef Zlochower

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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• Calculating the Electromagnetic Signal of Massive Binary Black Holes

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Kaitlyn Porter

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Kaitlyn Porter

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Manuela Campanelli

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Scott Noble

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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• Binary black holes gone MAD: Magnetically arrested minidisks around nonspinning binary black holes

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: "Binary black holes gone MAD: Magnetically arrested minidisks around nonspinning binary black holes", Vikram Manikantan and Vasileios Paschalidis, arXiv:2509.18254.

  Presenters

  • Vikram Manikantan

    • University of Arizona

  Authors

  • Vikram Manikantan

    • University of Arizona

  • Vasileios Paschalidis

    • University of Arizona

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