A. C. Calder (calder@flash.uchicago.edu) F. Douglas Swesty, Edward Y. M. WangClick here for the list of those who have asked to be added to the AUTHOR LIST.
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We present numerical studies of coalescing neutron star pairs with Newtonian hydrodynamics coupled to the 2.5 Post-Newtonian radiation reaction of Blanchet, Damour, and Schafer. Our simulations evolve the Euler equations using a modification of the ZEUS 2-d algorithm and use a Fast Fourier Transformation method for solving the Poisson equation for the gravitational and radiation reaction potentials. We find that the radiation reaction produces a significant effect on a neutron star pair when compared to a purely Newtonian simulation.