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Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors are expected to constrain the properties of extreme density matter via observations of static and dynamical tides in binary neutron star inspirals. The required modelling is straightforward in…

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The gravitational waves produced by binary neutron star mergers offer a unique window into matter behavior under extreme conditions. In this context, we model analytically the effect of matter on the gravitational waves from binary neutron…

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We review the current status of general relativistic studies for coalescences of black hole--neutron star binaries. First, high-precision computations of black hole--neutron star binaries in quasiequilibrium circular orbits are summarized,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

We employ an approximate treatment of dissipative hydrodynamics in three dimensions to study the coalescence of binary neutron stars driven by the emission of gravitational waves. The stars are modeled as compressible ellipsoids obeying a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dong Lai , Stu Shapiro

Tidal forces cause inspiralling binary neutron stars to deform, leaving a measurable imprint on the gravitational waves they emit. The induced stellar multipoles are an added source of gravitational radiation and modify the orbital…

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We analyze the coupling between the internal degrees of freedom of neutron stars in a close binary, and the stars' orbital motion. Our analysis is based on the method of matched asymptotic expansions and is valid to all orders in the…

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We compare dynamics and waveforms from binary neutron star coalescence as computed by new long-term ($\sim 10 $ orbits) numerical relativity simulations and by the tidal effective-one-body (EOB) model including analytical tidal corrections…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-25 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Alessandro Nagar , Marcus Thierfelder , Bernd Bruegmann

In this article, we focus on the effects of mass transfer between binary stars and stellar spin on the post-Newtonian (PN) orbital evolution and gravitational waveforms of compact binary systems. We employ the 2.5PN approximation and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-24 Yifan He , Jie Yang

We show the results of dynamical simulations of the coalescence of black hole-neutron star binaries. We use a Newtonian Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics code, and include the effects of gravitational radiation back reaction with the quadrupole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 William H. Lee

With the first detections of binary neutron star mergers by gravitational-wave detectors, it proves timely to consider how the internal structure of neutron stars affects the way in which they can be asymmetrically deformed. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson , Jonas P. Pereira

We construct new models of black hole-neutron star binaries in quasiequilibrium circular orbits by solving Einstein's constraint equations in the conformal thin-sandwich decomposition together with the relativistic equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Keisuke Taniguchi , Thomas W. Baumgarte , Joshua A. Faber , Stuart L. Shapiro

We present a new numerical method for the construction of quasiequilibrium models of black hole-neutron star binaries. We solve the constraint equations of general relativity, decomposed in the conformal thin-sandwich formalism, together…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas W. Baumgarte , Monica L. Skoge , Stuart L. Shapiro

We perform new longterm (15-16 orbits) simulations of coalescing binary neutron stars in numerical relativity using an updated Einstein's equation solver, employing low-eccentricity initial data, and modeling the neutron stars by a…

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We study the importance of hydrodynamic effects on the evolution of coalescing binary neutron stars. Using an approximate energy functional constructed from equilibrium solutions for polytropic binary configurations, we incorporate…

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We consider the motion of nonspinning, compact objects orbiting around a Kerr black hole with tidal couplings. The tide-induced quadrupole moment modifies both the orbital energy and outgoing fluxes, so that over the inspiral timescale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-01 Xuefeng Feng , Zhenwei Lyu , Huan Yang

We introduce a computational framework which avoids solving explicitly hydrodynamic equations and is suitable to study the pre-merger evolution of black hole-neutron star binary systems. The essence of the method consists of constructing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Ulrich Sperhake , Pablo Laguna

As a first step in the computation of the orbital phase evolution of spinless compact binaries including tidal effects up to the next-to-next-to-leading (NNL) order, we obtain the equations of motion of those systems and the associated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-02 Quentin Henry , Guillaume Faye , Luc Blanchet

The neutron star tidal deformability is a critical parameter which determines the pre-merger gravitational-wave signal in a neutron star merger. In this article, we show how neutron star tidal deformabilities behave in the presence of one…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Sophia Han , Andrew W. Steiner