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Remnant properties of binary neutron star mergers undergoing prompt collapse

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Pith's one-line read Prompt-collapse neutron star remnants land in a tight, distinct mass–spin zone.

desk verdict A useful reanalysis of existing prompt-collapse NR data; the narrow remnant claim is likely real physics but needs an explicit numerical-error budget before it is quantitative. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.19431 v1 pith:MOHQD3OQ submitted 2025-07-25 gr-qc

Arnab Dhani , Alessandro Camilletti , David Radice , Rahul Kashyap , Bangalore Sathyaprakash , Domenico Logoteta , Albino Perego This is my paper
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keywords promptcollapsebinaryneutronstarmergersremnantmassandspinnumericalrelativitysimulationsequationofstateCosmicExplorertidaldeformabilityGW230529
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper asks what is left behind when two neutron stars merge so violently that they collapse straight into a black hole, bypassing a long-lived remnant. Using 107 numerical-relativity simulations spanning 22 equations of state, it argues that these prompt-collapse remnants are nearly uniform: the final mass is always within about one percent of 0.97 times the total binary mass, and the dimensionless spin always lands between 0.85 and 0.95, no matter the binary masses, mass ratio, or nuclear model. Because ordinary black-hole mergers scatter across a much wider and differently placed region of the mass–spin plane, the paper claims the two classes of remnants are cleanly separable. This matters for gravitational-wave astronomy: a prompt-collapse neutron star merger would otherwise be easy to mistake for a black-hole merger, and getting the classification right is needed to measure neutron-star maximum mass and to avoid false tests of general relativity.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing tool is a conservation-bookkeeping relation for the remnant. The paper writes the final mass and spin as initial ADM values minus the energy and angular momentum carried off by gravitational waves, $M_f = M_{\rm ADM} - E_{\rm rad}$ and $a_f = (J_{\rm ADM}-J_{\rm rad})/M_f^2$, deliberately including the accretion disk and ejecta in the remnant totals. The argument then leans on an empirical quadratic fit, from an earlier study [31], tying the reduced radiated energy to the reduced remnant angular momentum; the paper supplies corrected coefficients for that fit and shows it holds across its 107 simulations with a median relative difference of about 3%. That relation is what lets the remnant spin be read off from the energy lost to gravitational radiation, and it is the bridge from the simulations to the claim that final spin is governed by gravitational dynamics rather than by the details of the nuclear equation of state. The contrast set is built from published fitting formulas for black-hole-binary remnants [79] and from a public catalog of 1937 black-hole-binary simulations, which define the region of the plane that prompt-collapse remnants are claimed to avoid.

What would settle it

Run a handful of the 107 configurations at higher numerical resolution and with an independent mesh-refinement scheme, then compare the recovered $M_f/M$ and $a_f$. If the values move by more than the quoted spread—outside roughly 0.965–0.975 in mass fraction or outside 0.85–0.95 in spin—then the claimed universality and the separation from black-hole remnants are numerical artifacts rather than physics.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that prompt-collapse binary neutron star remnants—the black hole together with its accretion disk and any ejecta—form a tightly clustered population in the remnant mass–spin plane. For all 107 simulated non-spinning binaries, the remnant mass fraction $M_f/M$ lies in a band of width less than 1%, near 0.97, and the dimensionless spin $a_f$ lies between about 0.85 and 0.95. These values are larger than the corresponding binary black hole remnants with the same initial masses and mass ratio, because a neutron-star merger radiates only 1–2% of the total mass in gravitational waves, compared with 3–4% for a black-hole merger. Comparing against 1937 black-hole-binary simulations, the paper finds the prompt-collapse remnants occupy a region of the plane that is entirely disjoint from black-hole remnants: the smallest scaled angular momentum of a prompt-collapse remnant is still larger than the largest value produced by any of the black-hole simulations considered. The paper also shows that a future 40 km ground-based gravitational-wave observatory should see the postmerger of most such systems at 100 Mpc with signal-to-noise ratio above 4, and that the inspiral's tidal deformability, measurable down to $\tilde\Lambda\approx 3.5$, can identify neutron-star binaries at larger distances than the postmerger itself.

Load-bearing premise

The claim that every prompt-collapse remnant falls in a band less than one percent wide in mass fraction and 0.85–0.95 in spin assumes that the 107 simulations' numerical errors, for which no resolution or extraction uncertainties are given, are smaller than that band.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Future observatories can use the remnant mass–spin plane as a classifier: a remnant with $M_f/M\gtrsim 0.96$ and $a_f\gtrsim 0.85$ is almost certainly from a neutron-star merger that promptly collapsed, not from a binary black hole.
  • The postmerger of a prompt-collapse merger is systematically quieter than the equivalent black-hole merger's ringdown; a loud inspiral followed by a weak high-frequency tail is itself evidence for neutron-star matter, observable at 100 Mpc for most of the simulated systems.
  • Tidal effects in the late inspiral, not the postmerger, set the distance reach for classification: reduced tidal deformabilities as small as $\tilde\Lambda\approx 3.5$ are distinguishable from zero at 100 Mpc, and $\tilde\Lambda\approx 22$ out beyond 250 Mpc.
  • If the primary of GW230529 came from a prompt-collapse first-generation merger, the observed spin bounds the neutron-star maximum mass between roughly $2.41\,M_\odot$ and $3.21\,M_\odot$.
  • Highly spinning black holes with $a_f\approx 0.85$–$0.95$ can be produced naturally by neutron-star mergers, providing an astrophysical route to near-extremal spins without requiring rapidly spinning progenitors.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the band survives higher-resolution runs and spinning initial data, the mass–spin fingerprint could be used to classify gravitational-wave events statistically even when individual tidal measurements are inconclusive, since the two remnant populations appear disjoint.
  • The corrected radiated-energy versus remnant-angular-momentum fit turns next-generation detectors into remnant-spin meters: measuring total radiated energy from the inspiral would predict final spin, and a quasi-normal-mode measurement from the ringdown could cross-check it, testing whether the disk mass is being counted consistently.
  • A natural extension is to neutron-star–black-hole binaries; if their prompt-collapse remnants fill the gap between the BNS and BBH clusters, the clean separation found here would become a three-way map rather than a binary classifier.
  • The paper's detectability numbers assume ideal orientation and the long-wavelength approximation; real detections will be dimmer and noisier, so the quoted SNR-of-4 majority is an optimistic ceiling rather than a guaranteed detection rate.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper analyzes 107 non-spinning equal- and unequal-mass binary neutron star merger simulations from the WhiskyTHC code across 22 equations of state, all classified as prompt collapse. It reports that the final remnant mass and spin including the accretion disk and ejecta lie in a narrow range (Mf/M around 0.97, af between 0.85 and 0.95), and that this region is disjoint from the remnant properties of 1937 SXS BBH simulations in the mass-spin plane. It then evaluates the detectability of the postmerger signal in a 40 km Cosmic Explorer at 100 Mpc, finding SNRs mostly greater than 4, and uses an injection-recovery study with IMRPhenomPv2 NRTidalv2 to assess how small the reduced tidal deformability can be while still distinguishing a BNS from a BBH. The paper finds that Lambda~3.5 can exclude zero at more than 70% confidence at 100 Mpc and that Lambda~22 can be distinguished to distances greater than 250 Mpc. It closes with implications for the equation of state from GW230529.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the paper establishes a surprisingly tight, EoS- and mass-ratio-insensitive relation for prompt-collapse remnant properties, with practical consequences for source classification with next-generation detectors. A clear strength is that the remnant mass and spin are computed directly from ADM conservation laws and gravitational-wave extraction, not from a fitted model, making the claims falsifiable. The comparison to a large set of SXS BBH simulations is useful and the injection-recovery study is a self-consistency test of a public waveform model. The authors also explicitly list several limitations, including the long-wavelength approximation and irrotational initial data. However, the main claims rest on numerical quantities for which no error bars are given, and the detectability conclusions depend on a hand-chosen frequency cutoff and a small number of injections. These issues prevent the paper from being accepted in its present form.

major comments (3)
  1. [Sec. III B, Eqs. (3.2)-(3.5), Figs. 3-5] The central claim that Mf/M is confined to a spread smaller than 1% and that af lies between 0.85 and 0.95, and the accompanying claim of disjointness from SXS BBH remnants, are computed from E_rad, J_rad, and for the BH subset m_disk and J_disk. The paper provides no error bars, resolution study, or extrapolation estimate for any of these quantities. Since the quoted spread is comparable to or smaller than typical numerical-relativity energy-extraction errors, I cannot judge whether the narrowness and disjointness are physical or partly artifacts of finite resolution or extraction-systematics. Please add an error estimate, for instance by using published resolution studies of the same code or by reporting the spread in E_rad and J_rad across resolutions, and discuss the impact on the claimed universality.
  2. [Sec. III D, Eq. (3.6)] The postmerger SNR is computed with a hand-chosen lower cutoff f_lo = 2048 Hz, and the text acknowledges that this choice was necessitated by scatter in the merger-frequency fits. The paper does not quantify how the reported SNRs, and in particular the statement that a majority of systems have SNR > 4 at 100 Mpc, change when f_lo is varied within a plausible range. Given the stated sensitivity of the postmerger SNR to the lower cutoff, a systematic scan over f_lo or an explicit statement of the induced uncertainty should be added before the detectability conclusions can be considered robust.
  3. [Sec. III E, Fig. 7] The claim that a reduced tidal deformability of about 3.5 can be confidently classified as a BNS is based on a single injection whose posterior excludes Lambda = 0 at "more than 70% confidence". A 70% credible exclusion is not ordinarily a confident classification; the paper should either state a standard confidence threshold (e.g., 90% or 99%) or soften the wording. In addition, the extrapolation to "virtually all" BNS mergers relies on only a handful of injections at a single mass pair, so either additional injections spanning the EoS distribution or a clearly qualified conclusion is needed.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Sec. I] In the Introduction, "binary black holess" contains a typo; it should be "binary black holes".
  2. [Sec. III A and Sec. IV] The threshold mass is denoted both "Mthres" and "Mthr" in different places; please choose a single notation.
  3. [Sec. III D] The text refers to a "select few (almost) equal mass binaries" that "shut-off" immediately after merger, but a quantitative criterion for this shut-off (e.g., a threshold on the postmerger energy or amplitude) would make the discussion reproducible.
  4. [Sec. IV] The acknowledged limitations (long-wavelength approximation, irrotational initial data) are listed, but it would be useful to add a brief comment on the expected magnitude of their effect on the remnant-property claims, not only on the SNR and parameter-estimation results.
  5. [Sec. III D, Eq. (3.7)] The point-particle inspiral SNR formula is stated without a citation; please add a reference for this standard expression.

Circularity Check

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Central claims are computed directly from NR conservation laws and external catalogs; no circular step is exhibited.

full rationale

No circular step can be exhibited. The remnant mass and spin are obtained directly from conservation laws: Eq. (3.2), M_f = M_adm - E_rad, and Eq. (3.3), a_f = (J_adm - J_rad)/M_f^2, with E_rad and J_rad computed from the News tensor and strain. These are not fitted parameters and do not rely on the Zappa et al. relation. That relation (Eq. 3.1) is used only for a residual comparison in Fig. 2, and the paper explicitly corrects the published coefficients via private communication, so it is not used to produce the central claim. The narrow spread in M_f/M and a_f is an output of the 107 simulations, not an input. The comparison against BBH remnants uses the external SXS catalog and the Berti et al. fitting formulas, so the claimed disjointness is benchmarked externally. The self-citations that do appear, such as the threshold-mass relation M_thr = k_thr M_max with k_thr in [1.2,1.6] from Kashyap et al., are used only in the GW230529 discussion, are not load-bearing for the main remnant claim, and are empirical results from earlier independent simulations. The manuscript's stated limitations (long-wavelength detector response, irrotational initial data) and the absence of resolution or extraction error bars on E_rad, J_rad, m_disk, and J_disk around Eqs. (3.2)-(3.5) and Figs. 3-5 are correctness and systematics concerns, not circularity: missing error bars do not make a conservation-law estimate equal to its own inputs. Therefore no prediction reduces by construction to a fit or to a self-citation chain.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the fidelity of the NR simulations and on a few hand-chosen analysis constants. No new physical entities are introduced. The main free choices are the postmerger frequency band and the unexplained 0.935 factor, both of which affect the strength of the detectability and EoS constraints.

free parameters (3)
  • Postmerger lower frequency cutoff f_lo = 2048 Hz
    Chosen by hand after noting that NR merger frequencies varied from fits; the SNR results are highly sensitive to this value, so it acts as a free choice in the detectability analysis (Sec. III D).
  • Postmerger upper frequency cutoff f_hi = 7000 Hz
    Chosen as the high-frequency integration limit for postmerger SNR (Sec. III D); not derived from the detector noise or signal.
  • First-generation remnant mass fraction = 0.935
    Used to bound the progenitor binary mass as 3.6/0.935 = 3.85 solar masses in Sec. III C without stated derivation; the paper elsewhere reports Mf/M in a higher range around 0.97.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The 107 WhiskyTHC numerical-relativity simulations are accurate enough to resolve the claimed less-than-one-percent spread in remnant mass and the disk properties.
    No resolution or error analysis is presented for the remnant quantities; the narrowness and disjointness claims depend on this.
  • domain assumption The relation Mthr = kthr Mmax with kthr in [1.2, 1.6] from Kashyap et al. [40] holds for the first-generation BNS merger in the GW230529 argument.
    Used in Sec. III C to translate the derived progenitor mass into constraints on the neutron star maximum mass.
  • domain assumption IMRPhenomPv2 NRTidalv2 is an accurate waveform model for high-mass, low-tidal-deformability BNS inspirals in the Cosmic Explorer band.
    Used for injections and recovery in Sec. III E; no waveform-systematics study is included.
  • domain assumption The long-wavelength approximation is valid for the detector response at the frequencies and distances considered.
    This is acknowledged as a limitation in Sec. IV and affects both the SNR calculations and the parameter-estimation results.
invented entities (1)
  • None
    purpose: The paper introduces no new particles, forces, fields, or conserved quantities.
    All derived quantities (remnant mass, spin, disk mass, angular momentum) are defined from standard conservation laws and existing NR outputs.

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  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Remnant properties of binary neutron star mergers undergoing prompt collapse},
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  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/MOHQD3OQ}},
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abstract

We study the properties of remnants formed in prompt-collapse binary neutron star mergers. We consider non-spinning binaries over a range of total masses and mass ratios across a set of 22 equations of state, totaling 107 numerical relativity simulations. We report the final mass and spin of the systems (including the accretion disk and ejecta) to be constrained in a narrow range, regardless of the binary configuration and matter effects. This sets them apart from binary black-hole merger remnants. We assess the detectability of the postmerger signal in a future 40 km Cosmic Explorer observatory and find that the signal-to-noise ratio in the postmerger of an optimally located and oriented binary at a distance of 100 Mpc can range from ${<}1$ to 8, depending on the binary configuration and equation of state, with a majority of them greater than 4 in the set of simulations that we consider. We also consider the distinguishability between prompt-collapse binary neutron star and binary black hole mergers with the same masses and spins. We find that Cosmic Explorer will be able to distinguish such systems primarily via the measurement of tidal effects in the late inspiral. Neutron star binaries with \emph{reduced tidal deformability} $\tilde\Lambda$ as small as ${\sim}3.5$ can be identified up to a distance of 100 Mpc, while neutron star binaries with $\tilde\Lambda\sim22$ can be identified to distances greater than 250 Mpc. This is larger than the distance up to which the postmerger will be visible. Finally, we discuss the possible implications of our findings for the equation of state of neutron stars from the gravitational-wave event GW230529.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. The total mass of the binary at infinite separation and mass [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Reduced total radiated energy versus reduced angular momen [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Dimensionless final mass (left) and final spin (right) as a function of the total mass of the binary. Unfilled markers show the final mass [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. The remnant mass and spin of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. The dimensionless mass and spin of the remnant, including [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: FIG. 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: FIG. 7. The probability density functions on the reduced tidal deformability parameter, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: FIG. 8. The remnant mass and angular momentum ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png]

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