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Multimessenger Parameter Estimation of GW170817

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-04-15 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We combine gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) data to perform a Bayesian parameter estimation of the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817. The EM likelihood is constructed from a fit to a large number of numerical relativity simulations which we combine with a lower bound on the mass of the remnant's accretion disk inferred from the modeling of the EM light curve. In comparison with previous works, our analysis yields a more precise determination of the tidal deformability of the binary, for which the EM data provide a lower bound, and of the mass ratio of the binary, with the EM data favoring a smaller mass asymmetry. The 90\% credible interval for the areal radius of a 1.4 M1.4\ M_\odot NS is found to be 12.20.8+1.0±0.2 km12.2^{+1.0}_{-0.8} \pm 0.2\ {\rm km} (statistical and systematic uncertainties).

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@article{arxiv.1810.12917,
  title  = {Multimessenger Parameter Estimation of GW170817},
  author = {David Radice and Liang Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12917},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, accepted to the EPJA Topical Issue: The first Neutron Star Merger Observation - Implications for Nuclear Physics

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