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A significant fraction of binary neutron star mergers occur in star-forming galaxies where the UV-optical and soft X-ray afterglow emission from the relativistic jet may be absorbed by dust and re-emitted at longer wavelengths. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Wenbin Lu , Christopher F. McKee , Kunal P. Mooley

Mergers of binary neutron stars (BNSs) emit signals in both the gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) spectra. Famously, the 2017 multi-messenger observation of GW170817 led to scientific discoveries across cosmology, nuclear…

As neutron stars merge they can approach very high nuclear density. Here, we summarized recent results for the evolution and gravitational wave emission from binary neutron star mergers using a a variety of nuclear equations of state with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Grant J. Mathews , Atul Kedia , Hee Il Kim , In-Saeng Suh

As technology has improved, binary neutron star systems have been observed more frequently, in fact, the first gravitational wave to have an electromagnetic counterpart originated from the merger of two neutron stars (GW170817). Detecting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Jeshwanth Mohan

The multi-messenger data of neutron star merger events are promising for constraining the Hubble constant. So far, GW170817 is still the unique gravitational wave event with multi-wavelength electromagnetic counterparts. In particular, its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Yi-Ying Wang , Shao-Peng Tang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan

We study the implications of the recent detection of gravitational waves emitted by a pair of merging neutron stars and their electromagnetic counterpart, events GW170817 and GRB170817A, on the viability of the doubly coupled bimetric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-15 Yashar Akrami , Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Valeri Vardanyan

The post-bounce oscillations of newly-born relativistic stars are expected to lead to gravitational-wave emission through the excitation of nonradial oscillation modes. At the same time, the star is oscillating in its radial modes, with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrea Passamonti , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Alessandro Nagar

The first gravitational wave detections of mergers between black holes and neutron stars represent a remarkable new regime of high-energy transient astrophysics. The signals observed with LIGO-Virgo detectors come from mergers of extreme…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Matthias U. Kruckow , Thomas M. Tauris , Norbert Langer , Michael Kramer , Robert G. Izzard

The very first detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star binary merger, GW170817, exceeded all expectations. The event was relatively nearby, which may point to a relatively high merger rate. It was possible to extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Andreas Bauswein

The observation of GW150914 indicated a new independent measurement of the luminosity distance of a gravitational wave event. In this paper, we constrain the anisotropy of the Universe by using gravitational wave events. We simulate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-19 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Hai-Nan Lin , Zhe Chang

We have investigated an influence of the r-mode instability on hypercritically accreting ($\dot{M}\sim 1M_\odot {y}^{-1}$) neutron stars in close binary systems during their common envelope phases based on the scenario proposed by Bethe et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Yoshiharu Eriguchi

The merger of two neutron stars is a very complex process. In order to disentangle the various steps through which it takes place it is mandatory to examine all the signals we can detect: gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves, in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Alessandro Drago , Giuseppe Pagliara , Silvia Traversi

We summarize the observations of the spin periods of rapidly accreting neutron stars. If gravitational radiation is responsible for balancing the accretion torque at the observed spin frequencies of ~300 Hz, then the brightest of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Greg Ushomirsky , Lars Bildsten , Curt Cutler

When a neutron star is compressed to huge densities, it may be converted to a strange star. In property of the event/year rate of a neutron star - strange star binary system, we show that the operational phase of advanced gravitational wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. H. R. S. Moraes , O. D. Miranda

The stochastic background of gravitational wave signals arising from the core-collapse supernovae is produced through various complex mechanisms that need detailed and careful investigation. We proposed a simplified multi-peak waveform of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Sourav Roy Chowdhury , Maxim Khlopov

Binary neutron star (BNS) post-merger gravitational-wave emission can occur in the aftermath of a BNS merger -- provided the system avoids prompt collapse to a black hole -- as a quasistable hypermassive remnant experiences quadrupolar…

The discovery of two neutron star-black hole coalescences by LIGO and Virgo brings the total number of likely neutron stars observed in gravitational waves to six. We perform the first inference of the mass distribution of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Philippe Landry , Jocelyn S. Read

The recent detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts emitted during and after the collision of two neutron stars marks a breakthrough in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. Numerical relativity simulations are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-22 Tim Dietrich , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Bernd Bruegmann , Wolfgang Tichy

We present the first results on the saturation of the f-mode instability in neutron stars, due to nonlinear mode coupling. Emission of gravitational waves drives the f-mode (fundamental mode) unstable in fast-rotating, newborn neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-24 Pantelis Pnigouras , Kostas D. Kokkotas

It is currently unknown how matter behaves at the extreme densities found within the cores of neutron stars. Measurements of the neutron star equation of state probe nuclear physics that is otherwise inaccessible in a laboratory setting.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Kris Walker , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Daniel J. Reardon
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