Are Interactions with Neutron Star Merger Winds Shaping the Jets?

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Jets can become collimated as they propagate through dense environments and understanding such interactions is crucial for linking physical models of the environments to observations.

• In this work, we use 3D special-relativistic simulations to study how jets propagate through the environment created around a neutron star merger remnant by neutrino-driven winds.
• We simulate four jets with two different initial structures, top-hat and Gaussian, and two luminosities.
• After jet breakout, we study the angular jet structures and the resulting afterglow light curves.