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A rapidly spinning neutron star (NS) would emit a continuous gravitational wave (GW) detectable by the advanced LIGO, advanced Virgo, KAGRA and proposed third generation detectors such as the Einstein Telescope (ET). Such a GW does not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Kazunari Eda , Kenji Ono , Yousuke Itoh

We discuss an astrometric timing effect on data analysis of continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating isolated neutron stars. Special attention is directed to the possibility of determining their distances by measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Seto

According to the theoretical study, a deformation object (e.g., a spinning non-axisymmetric pulsar star) will radiate a gravitational wave (GW) signal during an accelaration motion process by LIGO science project. These types of disturbance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Jinzhong Liu , Yu Zhang

Although gravitational waves only interact weakly with matter, their propagation is affected by a gravitational potential. If a gravitational wave source is eclipsed by a star, measuring these perturbations provides a way to directly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Pablo Marchant , Katelyn Breivik , Christopher P. L. Berry , Ilya Mandel , Shane L. Larson

Detection of continuous gravitational waves from rapidly-spinning neutron stars opens up the possibility of examining their internal physics. We develop a framework that leverages a future continuous gravitational wave detection to infer a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-15 Neil Lu , Karl Wette , Susan M. Scott , Andrew Melatos

The measurements of the bulk properties of most isolated neutron stars (INSs) are challenging tasks. Tang et al. (2020) have developed a new method, based on the equation of state (EoS) of neutron star (NS) material constrained by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Chuan-Ning Luo , Shao-Peng Tang , Jing-Liang Jiang , Wei-Hong Gao , Da-Ming Wei

Recent theoretical work has made it plausible for neutron stars (NSs) to lose angular momentum via gravitational radiation on long timescales (around Myrs) while actively accreting. The gravitational waves (GWs) can either be emitted via…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Bildsten

Coalescing binary neutron stars (NS) are expected to be an important source of gravitational waves (GW) detectable by laser interferometers. We present here a simple method for determining the compactness ratio M/R of NS based on the…

We consider a simulated population of isolated Galactic neutron stars. The rotational frequency of each neutron star evolves through a combination of electromagnetic and gravitational wave emission. The magnetic field strength dictates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-25 Leslie Wade , Xavier Siemens , David L. Kaplan , Benjamin Knispel , Bruce Allen

Rotating neutron stars (NSs) are promising sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the frequency band of ground-based detectors. They are expected to emit quasi-monochromatic, long-duration GW signals, called continuous waves (CWs), due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Federico De Lillo , Jishnu Suresh , Andrew L. Miller

In this paper, we focus on the effect of mass-transfer between compact binaries like neutron-star-neutron-star (NS-NS) systems and neutron-star-white-dwarf (NS-WD) systems on gravitational waves (GWs). We adopt the mass quadrupole formula…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Zi-han Zhang , Bin Liu , Sheng-hua Yu , Jie Yang

Low mass neutron stars may be uniquely strong sources of gravitational waves (GW). The neutron star crust can support large deformations for low mass stars. This is because of the star's weaker gravity. We find maximum ellipticities…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-19 C. J. Horowitz

In the past decades, several neutron stars (NSs), particularly pulsars, with mass $M>2M_\odot$ have been observed. On the other hand, the existence of massive white dwarfs (WDs), even violating Chandrasekhar mass-limit, was inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Mayusree Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Recently, two gravitational wave (GW) signals, named as GW150914 and GW151226, have been detected by the two LIGO detectors. Although both signals were identified as originating from merging black hole (BH) binaries, GWs from systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-28 Hee-Suk Cho

Precise measurement of stellar properties through the observation of continuous gravitational waves from spinning non-axisymmetric neutron stars can shed light onto new physics beyond terrestrial laboratories. Although hitherto undetected,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-09 Yuhan Hua , Karl Wette , Susan M. Scott , Matthew D. Pitkin

Detection of gravitational waves (GW) provides us an opportunity to test general relativity in strong and dynamical regimes of gravity. One of the tests is checking whether GW propagates with the speed of light or not. This test is crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-27 Atsushi Nishizawa , Takashi Nakamura

Determining the mass of the neutron stars (NSs) accurately improves our understanding of the NS interior and complicated binary evolution. However, the masses of the systems are degenerate with orbital inclination angle when using solely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Kaye Jiale Li , Jane SiNan Long , Kinwah Wu , Albert K. H. Kong

We investigate a novel approach to measuring the Hubble constant using gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binaries by exploiting the narrowness of the distribution of masses of the underlying neutron-star population.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel

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

In testing gravity a model-independent way, one of crucial tests is measuring the propagation speed of a gravitational wave (GW). In general relativity, a GW propagates with the speed of light, while in the alternative theories of gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Atsushi Nishizawa
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