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Spinning Down Neutron-star Merger Remnants with the Tayler–Spruit Dynamo: Global Simulations Reveal the Formation of Massive Disks and Neutron-rich Ejecta

  • Authors: Harry Ho-Yin Ng, Elias R. Most

Harry Ho-Yin Ng and Elias R. Most 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1010 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

From left to right: meridional slices of the fiducial (ξTS = 1) model of the composition (Nμ) and thermal (NT) contributions to the Brunt–Väisälä frequency, the absolute value of the isotropic α-effect coefficient, ∣κ∣, and the rotational frequency, Ω/(2π). The snapshots are shown at ﹩\bar{t}=40\,{\rm{ms}}﹩ (top row) during the TS-dynamo growth stage and ﹩\bar{t}=300\,{\rm{ms}}﹩ (bottom row). In the ∣κ∣ panels, the upper half-plane shows the contribution from the TS dynamo, while the lower half-plane shows that from the MRI dynamo. Dashed, dashed–dotted, and solid cyan curves denote rest-mass density contours of 1012, 1013, and 1014 g cm−3, respectively. Green contours mark regions where ﹩| {\rm{\Omega }}| ={{\rm{\Omega }}}_{\mathrm{TS}}\equiv \sqrt{{\omega }_{{\rm{A}},\mathrm{sat}}{N}_{\mathrm{BV}}}﹩, where the saturated-state TI growth timescale equals the AM-transport timescale estimated from Equation (35) of J. Fuller et al. (2019). The regions enclosed by the green contours correspond to ∣Ω∣ < ΩTS.

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