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We model two mergers of orbiting binary neutron stars, the first forming a black hole and the second a differentially rotating neutron star. We extract gravitational waveforms in the wave zone. Comparisons to a post-Newtonian analysis allow…

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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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Alexander O'Dell , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

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

The properties of neutron star matter above nuclear density are not precisely known. Gravitational waves emitted from binary neutron stars during their late stages of inspiral and merger contain imprints of the neutron-star equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Charalampos Markakis , Jocelyn S. Read , Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu , Jolien D. E. Creighton , John L. Friedman

For the analysis of gravitational-wave signals, fast and accurate gravitational-waveform models are required. These enable us to obtain information on the system properties from compact binary mergers. In this article, we introduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-17 Adrian Abac , Tim Dietrich , Alessandra Buonanno , Jan Steinhoff , Maximiliano Ujevic

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-07 Philippe Landry

The early part of the gravitational wave signal of binary neutron star inspirals can potentially yield robust information on the nuclear equation of state. The influence of a star's internal structure on the waveform is characterized by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-28 Tanja Hinderer , Benjamin D. Lackey , Ryan N. Lang , Jocelyn S. Read

We study gravitational waves emitted in the late inspiral stage of binary neutron stars by analyzing the waveform obtained in numerical-relativity simulations. For deriving the physical gravitational waveforms from the numerical results,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata

Accurate gravitational-wave (GW) signal models exist for black hole binary (BBH) and neutron-star binary (BNS) systems, which are consistent with all of the published GW observations to date. Detections of a third class of compact-binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-29 Jonathan E. Thompson , Edward Fauchon-Jones , Sebastian Khan , Elisa Nitoglia , Francesco Pannarale , Tim Dietrich , Mark Hannam

Gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron stars carry information about matter at extreme gravity and density. The binary neutron star (BNS) event GW170817 provided, for the first time, insight into dense matter through this window.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-21 Anjali B. Yelikar , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Leslie Wade

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

Gravitational waves from inspiralling binary neutron stars provide unique access to ultra-dense nuclear matter and offer the ability to constrain the currently unknown neutron star equation-of-state through tidal measurements. This,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Natalie Williams , Patricia Schmidt , Geraint Pratten

We study the merger of black hole (BH)-neutron star (NS) binaries with a variety of BH spins aligned or anti-aligned with the orbital angular momentum, and with the mass ratio in the range MBH/MNS = 2--5, where MBH and MNS are the mass of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The tidal deformations of neutron stars within an inspiraling compact binary alter the orbital dynamics, imprinting a signature on the gravitational wave signal. Modeling this signal could be done with numerical-relativity simulations, but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-13 Kevin Barkett , Yanbei Chen , Mark A. Scheel , Vijay Varma

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are important sources of gravitational waves for second-generation interferometers, and BHNS mergers are also a proposed engine for short, hard gamma-ray bursts. The behavior of both the spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-12 Geoffrey Lovelace , Matthew D. Duez , Francois Foucart , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer , Mark A. Scheel , Bela Szilagyi

Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are capable of measuring tidal influences in binary neutron-star systems. In this work, we report on the statistical uncertainties in measuring tidal deformability with a full Bayesian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Leslie Wade , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Evan Ochsner , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin F. Farr , Tyson B. Littenberg , Vivien Raymond

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 signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for quasi-circular binary black hole inspirals computed from restricted post-Newtonian waveforms are compared with those attained by more complete post-Newtonian signals, which are superpositions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational waves emitted by black hole binary inspiral and mergers enable unprecedented strong-field tests of gravity, requiring accurate theoretical modelling of the expected signals in extensions of General Relativity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Banafsheh Shiralilou , Tanja Hinderer , Samaya Nissanke , Néstor Ortiz , Helvi Witek

After the discovery of gravitational waves from binary black holes (BBHs) and binary neutron stars (BNSs) with the LIGO and Virgo detectors, neutron-star--black-holes (NSBHs) are the natural next class of binary systems to be observed. In…