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Colloquium

Monster shocks and transient black hole pulsars from neutron star-black hole mergers 2026-07-15

  • Speaker : 김윤수 (Princeton Center for Theoretical Science)
  • Date : 2026-07-22 16:00 ~ 17:00
  • Location : 장영실홀 331-2호
  • Host : 김진호
An excitation of a compact object magnetosphere can lead to a strongly radiating shockwave (dubbed as a "monster shock") which can power high-energy electromagnetic bursts. From GRMHD simulations of the merger of a high mass ratio neutron star-black hole binary, we observe that a strong disturbance in the circumbinary magnetosphere from the plunge of a magnetized neutron star to a black hole can develop into monster shocks. The post-merger magnetosphere around the remnant black hole undergoes a rapid transition into an inclined split-monopole configuration, and is dissipated by magnetic reconnections on rotating current sheets. We show that the balding remnant black hole exhibits a recently proposed "black hole pulsar" state, launching an exponentially decaying striped wind of plasma. Our study reveals a novel type of shock-powered and reconnection-driven transients associated with compact binary mergers.