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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 4.

Top panel: evolution of the ratio of the EM energy in the poloidal and toroidal components (solid lines) for all binaries considered with 35 m resolution. Note that at late times the ratio converges to a constant value of ≃2. Bottom panel: as in the top, but relative to the ratio between the z and the toroidal components; note that at late times the ratio converges to a constant value of ≃1. Shown with dotted lines are the same quantities when employing a coarser resolution of 300 m, yielding significantly different values. For the IR case only, the red dashed line shows the medium-resolution simulation (100 m) run with BHAC+, while the purple dotted line and dashed line show the FIL simulations with resolutions of 300 m and 100 m, respectively.

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