Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Marronetti, Pedro

Abstract

The starting point of any general relativistic numerical simulation is a solution of the Hamiltonian and momentum constraints that (ideally) represents an astrophysically realistic scenario. This dissertation presents a new method to produce initial data sets for binary neutron stars with arbitrary spins and orbital eccentricities. The method only provides approximate solutions to the constraints. However, it was shown that the corresponding constraint violations subside after a few orbits, becoming comparable to those found in evolutions of standard conformally flat, helically symmetric binary initial data. This dissertation presents the first spinning neutron star binary simulations in circular orbits with a orbital eccentricity less then 0.01. The initial data sets corresponding to binaries with spins aligned, zero and anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum were evolved in time. These simulations show the orbital “hang-up” effect previously seen in binary black holes. Additionally, they show orbital eccentricities that can be up to one order of magnitude smaller than those found in helically symmetric initial sets evolutions.

Extent

120 p.

Comments

Includes bibliography.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013.|Includes bibliography.

Identifier

FA0004067

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