the black hole–torus system. In both regimes the magnetic field is predominantly toroidal in the highly conducting torus and predominantly poloidal in the nearly evacuated funnel. Reconnection processes or neutrino annihilation occurring in the funnel, none of which we model, could potentially increase the internal energy in the funnel and launch a relativistic outflow, which, however, is not produced in these simulations.'
author:
- Kyriaki Dionysopoulou
- Daniela Alic
- Luciano Rezzolla
date: 29 October 2015
title: 'General-relativistic resistive-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of binary neutron stars'
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Introduction
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With the rapid progress made in upgrading and testing a series of advanced interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as LIGO [@Harry2010], Virgo [@Accadia2011_etal], and KAGRA [@Aso:2013], there are now great expectations that in the next five years we will witness the first direct detection of gravitational waves. Prime sources for such a detection are binary systems of compact objects, namely, binary systems comprising either two black holes, a black hole and a neutron star, or two neutron stars. The latter configuration, in particular, is potentially a very interesting one, as it will represent the most common source, with a realistic expected detection rate of $\sim 40\, \mathrm
{yr}^{-1}$ [@Abadie:2010_etal]. A detection of gravitational waves 