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Gravitational wave detectors in the LIGO/Virgo frequency band are able to measure the individual masses and the composite tidal deformabilities of neutron-star binary systems. This paper demonstrates that high accuracy measurements of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Lee Lindblom

Tidal deformability of a 1.4 $M_\odot$ neutron star provides a pivotal window into the physics of dense nuclear matter, bridging gravitational-wave(GW), electromagnetic observations and nuclear physics. In this work, we present a novel,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Chun Huang

By extending our recent framework to describe the tidal deformations of a spinning compact object, we compute for the first time the tidal Love numbers of a spinning neutron star to linear order in the angular momentum. The spin of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-03 Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari

We compute tidal signatures in the gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron star binary inspirals in scalar-tensor gravity, where the dominant adiabatic even-parity tidal interactions involve three types of Love numbers that depend on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-04 Gastón Creci , Iris van Gemeren , Tanja Hinderer , Jan Steinhoff

In this present work, we suggest studying neutron star with a conformal coupling by using the analytical expressions of realistic equations of state. The equations of perturbed and nonperturbed metrics, scalar field and the pressure of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-28 Hamza Boumaza

The first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (NS) inspiral GW170817 has opened a unique channel for probing the fundamental properties of matter at supra-nuclear densities inaccessible elsewhere in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-03 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Tanja Hinderer

Galactic neutron stars are a promising source of gravitational waves in the analysis band of detectors such as LIGO and Virgo. Previous searches for gravitational waves from neutron stars have focused on the detection of individual neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-25 Dipongkar Talukder , Eric Thrane , Sukanta Bose , Tania Regimbau

We review the detectability of gravitational waves generated by oscillations excited during a phase transition from hadronic matter to deconfined quark-gluon matter in the core of a neutron star. Neutron star properties were computed using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. F. Marranghello , C. A. Z. Vasconcellos , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco

Recent studies suggest that coalescing neutron stars are subject to a fluid instability involving the nonlinear coupling of the tide to $p$-modes and $g$-modes. Its influence on the inspiral dynamics and thus the gravitational wave signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Reed Essick , Salvatore Vitale , Nevin N. Weinberg

Gravitational waves (GWs) from inspiralling neutron stars afford us a unique opportunity to infer the as-of-yet unknown equation of state of cold hadronic matter at supranuclear densities. During the inspiral, the dominant matter effects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Natalie Williams

Recently exploratory studies were performed on the possibility of constraining the neutron star equation of state (EOS) using signals from coalescing binary neutron stars, or neutron star-black hole systems, as they will be seen in upcoming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-05 Michalis Agathos , Jeroen Meidam , Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Marco Tompitak , John Veitch , Salvatore Vitale , Chris Van Den Broeck

Thanks to recent measurements of tidal deformability and radius, the nuclear equation of state and structure of neutron stars are now better understood. Here, we show that through resonant tidal excitations in a binary inspiral, the neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Zhen Pan , Zhenwei Lyu , Béatrice Bonga , Néstor Ortiz , Huan Yang

We use gravitational-wave observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 to explore the tidal deformabilities and radii of neutron stars. We perform Bayesian parameter estimation with the source location and distance informed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-01 Soumi De , Daniel Finstad , James M. Lattimer , Duncan A. Brown , Edo Berger , Christopher M. Biwer

We study the tidal disruption of neutron stars in black hole-neutron star coalescing binaries. We calculate the critical orbital separation at which the star is disrupted by the black hole tidal field for several equations of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri , F. Pannarale

We study the detectability of gravitational-wave signals from sub-solar mass binary neutron star systems by the current generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. We find that finite size effects from large tidal…

The discovery of gravitational waves (GW) by Advanced LIGO has ushered us into an era of observational GW astrophysics. Compact binaries remain the primary target sources for LIGO, of which neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binaries form an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Prayush Kumar , Michael Pürrer , Harald P. Pfeiffer

Numerical simulations of binary neutron stars by Wilson, Mathews, and Marronetti indicated that neutron stars that are stable in isolation can be made to collapse to black holes when placed in a binary. This claim was surprising as it ran…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc Favata

Observations of neutron-star mergers based on distinct messengers, including gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals, can be used to study the behavior of matter denser than an atomic nucleus, and to measure the expansion rate of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-22 Tim Dietrich , Michael W. Coughlin , Peter T. H. Pang , Mattia Bulla , Jack Heinzel , Lina Issa , Ingo Tews , Sarah Antier

As gravitational wave instrumentation becomes more sensitive, it is interesting to speculate about subtle effects that could be analyzed using upcoming generations of detectors. One such effect that has great potential for revealing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Cecilia Chirenti , Roman Gold , M. Coleman Miller

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) recently measured the mass and equatorial radius of the isolated neutron star PSR J0030+0451. We use these measurements to infer the moment of inertia, the quadrupole moment, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-06 Hector O. Silva , A. Miguel Holgado , Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño , Nicolás Yunes