- Article
Bulk Viscous Damping of Density Oscillations in Neutron Star Mergers
- Mark Alford,
- Arus Harutyunyan and
- Armen Sedrakian
In this paper, we discuss the damping of density oscillations in dense nuclear matter in the temperature range relevant to neutron star mergers. This damping is due to bulk viscosity arising from the weak interaction “Urca” processes of n...

