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We present a computationally efficient (time-domain) multipolar waveform model for quasi-circular spin-aligned compact binary coalescences. The model combines the advantages of the numerical-relativity informed, effective-one-body (EOB)…

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We study the impact of out-of-equilibrium, dissipative effects on the dynamics of inspiraling neutron stars. We find that modeling dissipative processes (such as those from the stars internal effective fluid viscosity) requires that one…

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We investigate the constraints on the mass and radius of neutron stars by considering the tidal deformability in the merge of neutron star binaries. In order to extract the most reliable range of uncertainty from theory, we employ models…

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We study the tidal effects of a Kerr black hole on a neutron star in black hole-neutron star binary systems using a semi-analytical approach which describes the neutron star as a deformable ellipsoid. Relativistic effects on the neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-18 V. Ferrari , L. Gualtieri , F. Pannarale

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

We present SEOBNRv5THM, an accurate and fast gravitational-waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary neutron stars (BNS) within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism. It builds on the binary-black-hole approximant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Marcus Haberland , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff

Accurate and reliable gravitational waveform models are crucial in determining the properties of compact binary mergers. In particular, next-generation gravitational-wave detectors will require more accurate waveforms to avoid biases in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Adrian Abac , Felip A. Ramis Vidal , Marta Colleoni , Anna Puecher , Alejandra Gonzalez , Tim Dietrich

After the detection of gravitational waves caused by the coalescence of compact objects in the mass range of neutron stars, GW170817, several studies have searched for an imprint of tidal effects in the signal, employing different model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-02 Wolfgang Kastaun , Frank Ohme

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

The study of binary neutron stars mergers by the detection of the emitted gravitational waves is one of the most promised tools to study the properties of dense nuclear matter at high densities. It is worth claiming that, at the moment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-05 A. Kanakis-Pegios , P. S. Koliogiannis , Ch. C. Moustakidis

The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essential to this success since they are necessary to infer the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Adrian Abac , Anna Puecher , Jonathan Gair , Tim Dietrich

Gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals contain information on strongly-interacting matter in unexplored, extreme regimes. Extracting this requires robust theoretical models of the signatures of matter in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Jan Steinhoff , Tanja Hinderer , Tim Dietrich , Francois Foucart

This paper describes the different steps to include the adiabatic tidal effects to the gravitational waveform amplitude for quasi-circular non-spinning compact binaries up to the second-and-a-half post-Newtonian (PN) order. The amplitude,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-18 Eve Dones , Quentin Henry , Laura Bernard

We used two numerical models, namely the \texttt{CBwaves} and \texttt{SEOBNRE} algorithms, based on the post-Newtonian and effective-one-body approaches for binary black holes evolving on eccentric orbits. We performed 20.000 new…

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The gravitational wave signal from a binary neutron star merger carries the imprint of the deformability properties of the coalescing bodies, and then of the equation of state of neutron stars. In current models of the waveforms emitted in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-20 Gonçalo Castro , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani

While most binary inspirals are expected to have circularized before they enter the LIGO/Virgo frequency band, a small fraction of those binaries could have non-negligible orbital eccentricity depending on their formation channel. Hence, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-21 Mohammed Khalil , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Justin Vines

Using an extended set of equations of state and a multiple-group multiple-code collaborative effort to generate waveforms, we improve numerical-relativity-based data-analysis estimates of the measurability of matter effects in neutron-star…

Stellar systems consisting of multiple stars tend to undergo tidal interactions when the separations between the stars are short. While tidal phenomena have been extensively studied, a certain tidal effect exclusive to hierarchical triples…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 Yan Gao , Alexandre C. M. Correia , Peter P. Eggleton , Zhanwen Han

The gravitational wave signal from an inspiralling binary neutron star system will contain detailed information about tidal coupling in the system, and thus, about the internal physics of the neutron stars. To extract this information will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Justin Vines , Tanja Hinderer , Éanna É. Flanagan

Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) observations will detect gravitational waves (GWs) from the early inspiral phase of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with orbital periods of weeks to years. Current PTA analyses generally assume circular…

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