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It has been recently argued through numerical work that rotating stars with a high degree of differential rotation are dynamically unstable against bar-mode deformation, even for values of the ratio of rotational kinetic energy to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Pablo Cerdá-Durán , Vicent Quilis , José A. Font

Binary neutron star mergers used to be the most promising candidate for gravitational waves for ground-based gravitational wave detectors, such as advanced LIGO and advanced VIRGO. This was proved by the detection of gravitational waves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Kenta Kiuchi

The subsequent observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network will likely provide us with various gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems. For an accurate interpretation of these detections, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Maximiliano Ujevic , Alireza Rashti , Henrique Gieg , Wolfgang Tichy , Tim Dietrich

Several applications of spectral methods to problems related to the relativistic astrophysics of compact objects are presented. Based on a proper definition of the analytical properties of regular tensorial functions we have developed a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bonazzola , J. Frieben , E. Gourgoulhon , J. A. Marck

It has been estimated that a significant proportion of binary neutron star merger events produce long-lived massive remnants supported by differential rotation and subject to rotational instabilities. To examine formation and oscillation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-08 Xuefeng Zhang , Zhoujian Cao

Using an effective Lagrangian model inspired by Takami et al. 2015 we qualitatively study the early post-merger of a nearly symmetric binary Neutron Star (BNS) merger event with a non-vanishing ambient fraction of dark matter. For this we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 D. Suárez-Fontanella , D. Barba-González , C. Albertus , M. Ángeles Pérez-García

Due to the complexity of the required numerical codes, many of the new formulations for the evolution of the gravitational fields in numerical relativity are not tested on binary evolutions. We introduce in this paper a new testing ground…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Pedro Marronetti

Gravitational-wave parameter estimation for binary neutron star (BNS) systems poses severe computational challenges due to the extended signal duration, which can reach several minutes in current detectors. Neural posterior estimation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Masaki Iwaya , Vivien Raymond , Soichiro Morisaki , Kazuki Takada

We conduct a direct comparison of three different representative numerical codes for constructing models of rapidly rotating neutron stars in general relativity. Our aim is to evaluate the accuracy of the codes and to investigate how the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-23 Tetsuo Nozawa , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Eric Gourgoulhon , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

We develop a method to compute low-eccentricity initial data of binary neutron stars required to perform realistic simulations in numerical relativity. The orbital eccentricity is controlled by adjusting the orbital angular velocity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

In this paper, we use analytical methods to study the last stages of the double neutron star (NS) system evolution. Depending on the initial masses of the components, this evolution can occur either in the framework of the merging scenario…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Nikita Kramarev , Andrey Yudin

Three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations are presented for the direct head-on or off-center collision of two neutron stars, employing a basically Newtonian PPM code but including the emission of gravitational waves and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maximilian Ruffert , H. -Thomas Janka

High-accuracy numerical simulations of merging neutron stars play an important role in testing and calibrating the waveform models used by gravitational wave observatories. Obtaining high-accuracy waveforms at a reasonable computational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Alana Gudinas , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We present new (3+1) dimensional numerical relativity simulations of the binary neutron star (BNS) mergers that take into account the NS spins. We consider different spin configurations, aligned or antialigned to the orbital angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Maximiliano Ujevic , Wolfgang Tichy

Extracting the unique information on ultradense nuclear matter from the gravitational waves emitted by merging, neutron-star binaries requires robust theoretical models of the signal. We develop a novel effective-one-body waveform model…

Using an adapted version of the SGRID code, we construct for the first time consistent quasi-equilibrium configurations for a binary system consisting of two neutron stars in which each is admixed with dark matter. The stars are modelled as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Hannes R. Rüter , Violetta Sagun , Wolfgang Tichy , Tim Dietrich

We present a numerical method to compute quasiequilibrium configurations of close binary neutron stars in the pre-coalescing stage. A hydrodynamical treatment is performed under the assumption that the flow is either rigidly rotating or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Gourgoulhon , P. Grandclement , K. Taniguchi , J. -A. Marck , S. Bonazzola

Neutrino transport and neutrino-matter interactions are known to play an important role in the evolution of neutron star mergers, and of their post-merger remnants. Neutrinos cool remnants, drive post-merger winds, and deposit energy in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Phillip Kovarik , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

We provide a road towards obtaining gravitational waveforms from inspiraling material binaries with an accuracy viable for third-generation gravitational wave detectors, without necessarily advancing computational hardware or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

We model the adiabatic inspiral of relativistic binary neutron stars in a quasi-equilibrium (QE) approximation, and compute the gravitational wavetrain from the late phase of the inspiral. We compare corotational and irrotational sequences…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew D. Duez , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Stuart L. Shapiro , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu