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The Initial Spin Matters: The Impact of Rapid Rotation on Magnetic-field Amplification at Merger

  • Authors: Harry Ho-Yin Ng, Jin-Liang Jiang, Luciano Rezzolla

Harry Ho-Yin Ng et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1008 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Distributions of the magnetic-field strength ∣B∣ on the z = 0 plane for all cases considered (different rows) at times t = tsh, tsh,1/2, and t − tsh = 2 ms (different columns). Note that all figures have been rotated so that the maxima of the rest-mass density of the two NSs at t = tsh are on the y = 0 line (for the DU binary, only the density maximum of the aligned-spinning star is on the y = 0 line). Each panel reports data covered by the finest resolution box with Δx ≃ 35 m. The arrows in the first column indicate the spin-alignment of each star.

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