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Based on evolutionary scenarios for binary stellar evolution we study the merging rates of relativistic binary stars (NS+NS, NS+BH, BH+BH) under different assumptions of BH formation. We find the BH+BH merging rate in the range one per…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. M. Lipunov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

We propose a long-term strategy for detecting thermal neutrinos from the remnant of binary-neutron-star mergers with a future M-ton water-Cherenkov detector such as Hyper-Kamiokande. Monitoring >~2500 mergers within <~200 Mpc, we may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-07 Koutarou Kyutoku , Kazumi Kashiyama

We investigate the prospects of electromagnetic follow-up observations for binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, with the help of early warnings from decihertz gravitational-wave (GW) observatories, B-DECIGO and DO-Optimal. Extending the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-22 Yacheng Kang , Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

As two neutron stars merge, they emit gravitational waves that can potentially be detected by earth bound detectors. Matched-filtering based algorithms have traditionally been used to extract quiet signals embedded in noise. We introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-29 Marlin B. Schäfer , Frank Ohme , Alexander H. Nitz

Study of gravitational-radiation induced merging rates of relativistic binary stars (double neutron stars; neutron star + black hole; double black holes) shows that the first-generation gravitational wave interferometers with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 V. M. Lipunov , K. A. Postnov , M. E. Prokhorov

We investigate the ability of current and third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors to determine the delay time distribution (DTD) of binary neutron stars (BNS) through a direct measurement of the BNS merger rate as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Edo Berger , Ken K. -Y. Ng , Hsin-Yu Chen , Salvatore Vitale , Chris Whittle , Evan Scannapieco

Most gravitational-wave signals from binary neutron star coalescences are too weak to be individually resolved with current detectors. We demonstrate how to extract a population of sub-threshold binary neutron star signals using Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-28 Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

The observation of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers has established the field of gravitational wave astronomy. It is expected that future networks of gravitational wave detectors will possess great potential in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Joseph Mills , Vaibhav Tiwari , Stephen Fairhurst

Measuring the merger rate density history of binary neutron stars (BNS) can greatly aid in understanding the history of heavy element formation in the Universe. Currently, second-generation Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors can only measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Yun-Fei Du , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , Shu-Xu Yi , Tian-Yong Cao , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The simultaneous detection of gravitational and electromagnetic waves from a binary neutron star merger has both solidified the link between neutron star mergers and short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and demonstrated the ability of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Brandon K. Wiggins , Christopher L. Fryer , Joseph M. Smidt , Dieter H. Hartmann , Nicole Lloyd-Ronning , Chris Belcynski

We investigated the detection rates and early warning parameters of binary neutron star (BNS) populations with decihertz gravitational-wave observatories in a realistic detecting strategy. Assuming 4 years' operation of B-DECIGO, we based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-28 Chang Liu , Yacheng Kang , Lijing Shao

We explore the prospects for constraining cosmology using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron-star binaries by the proposed Einstein Telescope (ET), exploiting the narrowness of the neutron-star mass function. Double…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-06 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair

Mergers of black-hole binaries are expected to release large amounts of energy in the form of gravitational radiation. However, binary evolution models predict merger rates too low to be of observational interest. In this paper we explore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Portegies Zwart , Stephen McMillan

We demonstrate by a large set of merger simulations for symmetric binary neutron stars (NSs) that there is a tight correlation between the frequency peak of the postmerger gravitational-wave (GW) emission and the physical properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Bauswein , H. -Th. Janka

We introduce deep learning time-series forecasting for gravitational wave detection of binary neutron star mergers. This method enables the identification of these signals in real advanced LIGO data up to 30 seconds before merger. When…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta

The mergers of binaries containing neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes are the most promising sources for direct detection in gravitational waves by the interferometers Advanced LIGO and Virgo over the next few years. The concurrent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Rodrigo Fernández , Brian D. Metzger

We summarize our results on the Galactic merger rate of double neutron stars (DNS) in view of the recent discovery of PSR J0737-3039. We also present previously unpublished results for the 'global' probability distribution of merger rate…

With no binary neutron star (BNS) merger detected yet during the fourth observing run (O4) of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) gravitational wave (GW) detector network, despite the time-volume (VT) surveyed with respect to the end of O3 increased…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Om Sharan Salafia

The possible formation histories of neutron star binaries remain unresolved by current gravitational-wave catalogs. The detection of an eccentric binary system could be vital in constraining compact binary formation models. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Rahul Dhurkunde , Alexander H. Nitz

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers can be used as alerts to enable prompt follow-up observations. In particular, capturing prompt electromagnetic and astroparticle emissions from the moment of a binary merger presents…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-09 Manoj Kovalam , Md Anwarul Kaium Patwary , Anala K Sreekumar , Linqing Wen , Fiona H Panther , Qi Chu