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We perform three-dimensional relativistic hydrodynamical calculations of neutron star mergers to assess the reliability of an approximate treatment of thermal effects in such simulations by combining an ideal-gas component with…

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Massive (hypermassive and supramassive) neutron stars are likely to be often formed after the merger of binary neutron stars. We explore the evolution process of the remnant massive neutron stars and gravitational waves emitted by them,…

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We present a numerical-relativity simulation of a black hole - neutron star merger in scalar-tensor (ST) gravity with binary parameters consistent with the gravitational wave event GW200115. In this exploratory simulation, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-29 Sizheng Ma , Vijay Varma , Leo C. Stein , Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Gravitational waves and electromagnetic signals from merging neutron star binaries provide valuable information about the the properties of dense matter, the formation of heavy elements, and high-energy astrophysics. To fully leverage…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 Francois Foucart , Matthew D. Duez , Francois Hebert , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel

Binary neutron star mergers are studied using nonlinear 3+1 numerical relativity simulations and the analytical effective-one-body (EOB) model. The EOB model predicts quasiuniversal relations between the mass-rescaled gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-15 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Simone Balmelli , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic

We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties measurable by gravitational wave detectors (chirp mass and mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Matt Nicholl , Ben Margalit , Patricia Schmidt , Graham P. Smith , Evan J. Ridley , James Nuttall

This study presents a thorough comparative analysis between post-Newtonian (PN) and numerically relativistic (NR) waveforms in eccentric orbits, covering nonspinning and spin-aligned configurations. The comparison examines frequency,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-17 Hao Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Qing-Wen Wu , Xiaolin Liu , Zhao Li

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

We present initial results of our study of numerical methods for modeling neutron star mergers (NSMs) with simulations that perform the full hydrodynamic evolution required to capture tidal effects, particularly in the last several orbits.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan C. Calder , F. Douglas Swesty , Edward Y. M. Wang

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars were recently detected for the first time by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, in event GW170817. This detection placed an upper limit on the effective tidal deformability of the two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Carolyn Raithel , Feryal Özel , Dimitrios Psaltis

The first spectral numerical simulations of 16 orbits, merger, and ringdown of an equal-mass non-spinning binary black hole system are presented. Gravitational waveforms from these simulations have accumulated numerical phase errors through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-20 Mark A. Scheel , Michael Boyle , Tony Chu , Lawrence E. Kidder , Keith D. Matthews , Harald P. Pfeiffer

This work is the first in a series of studies aimed at understanding the dynamics of highly eccentric binary neutron stars, and constructing an appropriate gravitational-waveform model for detection. Such binaries are possible sources for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-08 Huan Yang , William E. East , Vasileios Paschalidis , Frans Pretorius , Raissa F. P. Mendes

Black hole-neutron star binary mergers display a much richer phenomenology than black hole-black hole mergers, even in the relatively simple case - considered in this paper - in which both the black hole and the neutron star are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Francesco Pannarale , Emanuele Berti , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

In this work we analyze the gravitational wave signal from hypermassive neutron stars formed after the merger of binary neutron star systems, focusing on its spectral features. The gravitational wave signals are extracted from numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-16 Francesco Maione , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandra Feo , Frank Löffler

We present the Computational Relativity CoRe collaboration's public database of gravitational waveforms from binary neutron star mergers. The database currently contains 367 waveforms from numerical simulations that are consistent with…

The gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures connected to the merger of two neutron stars allow us to test the nature of matter at supranuclear densities. Since the Equation of State governing the interior of neutron stars is only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-09 Henrique Gieg , Tim Dietrich , Maximiliano Ujevic

Highly eccentric binary neutron star mergers exhibit unique dynamical and observational signatures compared to quasi-circular ones in terms of their gravitational wave signal and the ejection of matter, leading to different electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-15 Anna Neuweiler , Tim Dietrich , Bernd Brügmann

Observations of heavy (${\simeq}2\,M_\odot$) neutron stars in addition to the recent measurement of tidal deformability from the binary neutron-star merger GW170817, place interesting constraints on theories of dense matter. Current and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 M. Sieniawska , M. Bejger , B. Haskell

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…

The gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star inspiral contains information on the nuclear equation of state. This information is contained in a combination of the tidal polarizability parameters of the two neutron stars and is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Thibault Damour , Alessandro Nagar , Loic Villain