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The cores of neutron stars (NSs) near the maximum mass realize the most highly compressed matter in the universe where quark degrees of freedom may be liberated. Such a state of dense matter is hypothesized as quark matter (QM) and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Yuki Fujimoto , Kenji Fukushima , Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku

Pre-merger localization of binary neutron stars (BNSs) is one of the most important scientific goals for the third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors. It will enable the electromagnetic observation of the whole process of BNS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-02 Qian Hu , John Veitch

Observations of neutron stars (NSs) by the LIGO-Virgo and NICER collaborations have provided reasonably precise measurements of their various macroscopic properties. In this paper, we employ a Bayesian framework to combine them and place…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Bhaskar Biswas , Prasanta Char , Rana Nandi , Sukanta Bose

Gravitational Wave (GW) signals from Binary Neutron Star (BNS) mergers provide critical insights into the properties of matter under extreme conditions. Due to the scarcity of observational data, Numerical Relativity (NR) simulations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton , William A. Messman

Upgrades to existing gravitational-wave observatories have the potential to simultaneously constrain the nuclear equation of state and Hubble's constant $H_0$ to percent level with merging neutron star binaries. In practice, performing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Spencer J. Magnall , Simon R. Goode , Nikhil Sarin , Paul D. Lasky

The observation of neutron star mergers with gravitational waves (GWs) has provided a new method to constrain the dense-matter equation of state (EOS) and to better understand its nuclear physics. However, inferring nuclear microphysics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-20 Brendan T. Reed , Cassandra L. Armstrong , Rahul Somasundaram , Duncan A. Brown , Collin Capano , Soumi De , Ingo Tews

We propose a method to constrain the variation of the gravitational constant $G$ with cosmic time using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of merging binary neutron stars. The method essentially relies on the fact that the maximum and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Parameswaran Ajith

Gravitational waves emitted from the coalescence of neutron star binaries open a new window to probe matter and fundamental physics in unexplored, extreme regimes. To extract information about the supranuclear matter inside neutron stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Tim Dietrich , Tanja Hinderer , Anuradha Samajdar

We discuss the different signals, in gravitational and electromagnetic waves, emitted during the merger of two compact stars. We will focus in particular on the possible contraints that those signals can provide on the equation of state of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-08 Alessandro Drago , Giuseppe Pagliara , Sergei B. Popov , Silvia Traversi , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz

It is currently unknown how matter behaves at the extreme densities found within the cores of neutron stars. Measurements of the neutron star equation of state probe nuclear physics that is otherwise inaccessible in a laboratory setting.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Kris Walker , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Daniel J. Reardon

Bayesian hierarchical inference of phenomenological parameterized neutron star equations of state (EoS) from multiple gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers is of fundamental importance in improving our understanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Anarya Ray , Michael Camilo , Jolien Creighton , Shaon Ghosh , Soichiro Morisaki

Using hydrodynamical simulations for a large set of high-density matter equations of state (EoSs) we systematically determine the threshold mass M_thres for prompt black-hole formation in equal-mass and asymmetric neutron star (NS) mergers.…

With GW170817 being the only multimessenger gravitational wave (GW) event with an associated kilonova detected so far, there exists a pressing need for realistic estimation of the GW localization uncertainties and rates, as well as…

The gravitational-wave events GW170817 and GW190425 have led to a number of important insights on the equation of state of dense matter and the properties of neutron stars, such as their radii and the maximum mass. Some of these conclusions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 L. Jens Papenfort , Elias R. Most , Samuel Tootle , Luciano Rezzolla

The gravitational wave data of GW170817 favor the equation of state (EoS) models that predict compact neutron stars (NSs), consistent with the radius constraints from X-ray observations. Motivated by such a remarkable progress, we examine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Peng-Xiong Ma , Jin-Liang Jiang , Hao Wang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

The merger dynamics of a black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binary is influenced by the neutron star equation of state (EoS) through the latter's effect on the neutron star's radius and on the character of the mass transfer onto the black hole.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Matthew D. Duez , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Christian D. Ott , Saul A. Teukolsky

Detection and parameter estimation of binary neutron star merger remnants can shed light on the physics of hot matter at supranuclear densities. Here we develop a fast, simple model that can generate gravitational waveforms, and show it can…

The discovery of GW170817 with gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation is prompting new questions in strong-gravity astrophysics. Importantly, it remains unknown whether the progenitor of the merger comprised two…

The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-12 Haixing Miao , Huan Yang , Denis Martynov

We constrain the uncertainty in waiting times for detecting the first double-neutron-star (DNS) mergers by gravitational wave observatories. By accounting for the Poisson fluctuations in the rate density of DNS mergers and galaxy space…

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