Research Interests:

WhiskyMHD

Exact Riemann Solver for Relativistic MHD

Scientific Visualization

Publications

This is the list of my scientific publications. All the links point to the NASA Astrophysics Data System where both the public accessible version of the papers (as posted on the arxiv) and the published versions can be downloaded.

Submitted Papers (not yet published):
 

Published Papers:

1. Giacomazzo B., Rezzolla L. and Stergioulas N. 2011, Collapse of differentially-rotating neutron stars and cosmic censorship, Phys. Rev. D, 84, 024022
    
2. Baiotti L., Damour T., Giacomazzo B., Nagar A. and Rezzolla L. 2011, Accurate numerical simulations of inspiralling binary neutron stars and their comparison with effective-one-body analytical models, Phys. Rev. D, 84, 024017
    
3. Rezzolla L., Giacomazzo B., Baiotti L., Granot J., Kouveliotou C., Aloy M. A. 2011, The missing link: Merging neutron stars naturally produce jet-like structures and can power short Gamma-Ray Bursts, ApJ Letters, 732, L6
    
4. Giacomazzo B., Rezzolla L. and Baiotti L. 2011, Accurate evolutions of inspiralling and magnetized neutron-stars: equal-mass binaries, Phys. Rev. D, 83, 044014
    
5. Baiotti L., Damour T., Giacomazzo B., Nagar A. and Rezzolla L. 2010, Analytic modelling of tidal effects in the relativistic inspiral of binary neutron stars, Phys. Rev. Letters, 105, 261101
    
6. Rezzolla L., Baiotti L., Giacomazzo B., Link D. and Font J.-A. 2010, Accurate evolutions of unequal-mass neutron-star binaries: properties of the torus and short GRB engines, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 114105
    
7. Corvino G., Rezzolla L., Bernuzzi S., De Pietri R. and Giacomazzo B. 2010, On the Shear Instability in Relativistic Neutron Stars, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27, 114104
    
8. Giacomazzo B., Rezzolla L. and Baiotti L. 2009, Can magnetic fields be detected during the inspiral of binary neutron stars?, MNRAS Letters, 399, L164-L168
    
9. Baiotti L., Giacomazzo B. and Rezzolla L. 2009, Accurate evolutions of inspiralling neutron-star binaries: assessment of the truncation error, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 26, 114005
    
10. Mizuno Y., Zhang B., Giacomazzo B., Nishikawa K.-I., Hardee P. E., Nagataki S. and Hartmann D. H. 2009, Magnetohydrodynamic Effects in Propagating Relativistic Jets: Reverse Shock and Magnetic Acceleration, ApJ Letters, 690, L47-L51
     
11. Kellerman T., Baiotti L., Giacomazzo B. and Rezzolla L. 2008, An improved formulation of the relativistic hydrodynamics equations in 2D Cartesian coordinates, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, 225007
     
12. Meliani Z., Keppens R. and Giacomazzo B. 2008, Faranoff-Riley type I jet deceleration at density discontinuities: Relativistic hydrodynamics with realistic equation of state, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 491, 321-337
     
13. Baiotti L., Giacomazzo B. and Rezzolla L. 2008, Accurate evolutions of inspiralling neutron-star binaries: prompt and delayed collapse to black hole, Phys. Rev. D, 78, 084033
     
14. Giacomazzo B. and Rezzolla L. 2007, WhiskyMHD: a new numerical code for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 24, 235-258
     
15. Giacomazzo B. and Rezzolla L. 2006, The Exact Solution of the Riemann Problem in Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics, J. Fluid Mech., 562, 223-259