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We present new results for pulsating stars in general relativity. First we show that the so-called gravitational-wave modes of a neutron star can be excited when a gravitational wave impinges on the star. Numerical simulations suggest that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Nils Andersson , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Employing a simplified version of the Israel-Stewart formalism of general-relativistic shear-viscous hydrodynamics, we explore the evolution of a remnant massive neutron star of binary neutron star merger and pay special attention to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Kiuchi

We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and light. * GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves. * The detection of a spatially coincident weak burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-01 Raffaella Margutti , Ryan Chornock

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has recently made it possible for early warning alerts to be sent out, potentially before the end of the gravitational wave (GW) emission from a neutron star binary. If we get such alerts in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-10 Jacopo Tissino

A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associated electromagnetic counterparts. Joint observations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Chris Pankow , Eve A. Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

The detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger, GW170817, marked the dawn of a new era in time-domain astronomy. Monitoring of the radio emission produced by the merger, including high-resolution radio imaging, enabled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Dougal Dobie , Tara Murphy , David L. Kaplan , Kenta Hotokezaka , Juan Pablo Bonilla Ataides , Elizabeth K. Mahony , Elaine M. Sadler

We study the development and saturation of the $m=1$ one-armed spiral instability in remnants of binary neutron star mergers by means of high-resolution long-term numerical relativity simulations. Our results suggest that this instability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Christian D. Ott

We constrain the fundamental-mode ($f$-mode) oscillation frequencies of nonrotating neutron stars using a phenomenological Gaussian process model for the unknown dense-matter equation of state conditioned on a suite of gravitational-wave,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-01 Sailesh Ranjan Mohanty , Utkarsh Mali , H. C. Das , Bharat Kumar , Philippe Landry

The existence of a large number of asymmetric, rotating neutron stars, each individually emitting periodic or quasi-periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band around 100 Hz, raises the possibility of detecting their combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giacomo Giampieri

In the context of neutron star mergers, we study the gravitational wave spectrum of the merger remnant using numerical relativity simulations. Postmerger spectra are characterized by a main peak frequency $f_2$ related to the particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Tim Dietrich , Alessandro Nagar

Recent detection of gravitational wave from nine black hole merger events and one neutron star merger event by LIGO and VIRGO shed a new light in the field of astrophysics. On the other hand, in the past decade, a few super-Chandrasekhar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In August 2017, the first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, made it possible to study neutron stars in compact binary systems using gravitational waves. Despite being the loudest gravitational wave event detected to date…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-24 Stephanie M. Brown , Collin D. Capano , Badri Krishnan

We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries, in the context of advanced LIGO type gravitational wave detectors. We consider properties of the expected observational data with cut on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yun Wang , Albert Stebbins , Edwin L. Turner

The multi-messenger detection of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, the corresponding kilonova AT2017gfo and the short gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, as well as the observed afterglow has delivered a scientific breakthrough. For an…

Binary neutron star mergers, which can lead to less massive black holes relative to other known astrophysical channels, have the potential to probe modifications to general relativity that arise at smaller curvature scales compared to more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 William E. East , Frans Pretorius

Strong magnetic fields make neutron stars potential sources of detectable electromagnetic and gravitational-wave signals. Hence, inferring these magnetic fields is critical to understand the emissions of neutron stars. However, due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Anson Ka Long Yip , Patrick Chi-Kit Cheong , Tjonnie Guang Feng Li

We show that the maximum and the minimum mass of merging neutron stars can be estimated with upcoming gravitational wave observations. We simulate populations of binary neutron star signals and model their mass distribution including upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

We study the oscillations of neutron and strange stars in $R^2$ gravity. More precisely the nonradial $f$-modes are examined and the differences with pure general relativity are investigated. Using these results we build several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Gravitational waveform predictions from 3D simulations of explosions of non-rotating massive stars with no magnetic fields have been extensively studied. However, the impact of magnetic fields and rotation on the core-collapse supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Jade Powell , Bernhard Müller

Finite-size effects on the gravitational wave signal from a neutron star merger typically manifest at high frequencies where detector sensitivity decreases. Proposed sensitivity improvements can give us access both to stronger signals and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Carl-Johan Haster , Katerina Chatziioannou , Andreas Bauswein , James Alexander Clark