Importance of cooling in triggering the collapse of hypermassive neutron stars
Importance of cooling in triggering the collapse of hypermassive neutron stars
The inspiral and merger of a binary neutron star (NSNS) can lead to the formation of a hypermassive neutron star (HMNS). As the HMNS loses thermal pressure due to neutrino cooling and/or centrifugal support due to gravitational wave emission, and/or magnetic breaking of differential rotation, it will collapse to a …