Session C3 - Astrophysics and Cosmology.
FOCUS session, Monday afternoon, June 25
Building 4, Room 153,
The final burst of gravitational radiation emitted by coalescing binary neutron stars carries direct information about the neutron star fluid, and, in particular, about the equation of state of nuclear matter at extreme densities. Here, we present results from our latest post-Newtonian SPH calculations of binary neutron star coalescence, using up to 10^6 SPH particles to compute with higher spatial resolution than ever before the merger of an initially irrotational system. We discuss the numerical difficulties associated with instabilities which occur in such calculations, and discuss their effect on predictions of gravity wave signals and spectra.