2022ApJ...933...22K

We explore the electromagnetic counterparts that will associate with binary-neutron-star mergers for the case that remnant massive neutron stars survive for >=0.5 s after the merger. For this study, we employ the outflow profiles obtained by long-term general-relativistic neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with a mean-field dynamo effect. We show that a synchrotron afterglow with high luminosity can be associated with the merger event if the magnetic fields of the remnant neutron stars are significantly amplified by the dynamo effect. We also perform a radiative transfer calculation for kilonovae and find that, for the highly amplified magnetic field cases, the kilonovae can be bright in the early epoch (t <= 0.5 d), while it shows the optical emission which rapidly declines in a few days and the very bright near-infrared emission which lasts for ∼10 days. All these features have not been found in GW170817, indicating that the merger remnant neutron star formed in GW170817 might have collapsed to a black hole within several hundreds milliseconds or magnetic-field amplification might be a minor effect.