Core collapse and binary neutron star inspiral simulation using multipatch grids Seminar

Binary neutron stars are expected to be among the most numerous events observable by LIGO with rates estimated in the 10s per year. Core collapse supernovae that are close enough to observe with LIGO on the other hand are much rarer, with an expected rate of about 1 per century. Nevertheless there is large interest in simulating both types of events for gravitational wave analysis since the GW encode detailed information about the event that is hidden otherwise. I present results on simulations of magnetized core collapse and binary neutron star mergers using multipatch grids.