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Two neutron stars merge somewhere in the Universe approximately every 10 seconds, creating violent explosions observable in gravitational waves and across the electromagnetic spectrum. The transformative coincident gravitational-wave and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Nikhil Sarin , Paul D. Lasky

Binary neutron-star mergers offer crucial insights into the matter properties of neutron stars. We present the possible imprints in the gravitational wave signal from the nature of phase transition from such events. Our study employs a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Sagnik Chatterjee , Shamim Haque , Kamal Krishna Nath , Rana Nandi , Ritam Mallick

Understanding the properties of strongly interacting matter at extreme densities is a central problem in fundamental physics, but neutron star mergers provide a natural laboratory for probing this regime. However, the complexity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Nina Kunert , Guilherme Grams , William Newton , Edoardo Giangrandi , Anna Puecher , Hauke Koehn , Violetta Sagun , Tim Dietrich

The lifetime of the remnant produced by the merger of two neutron stars can provide a wealth of information on the equation of state of nuclear matter and on the processes leading to the electromagnetic counterpart. Hence, it is essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Samuel D. Tootle , L. Jens Papenfort , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

Determining the differential-rotation law of compact stellar objects produced in binary neutron stars mergers or core-collapse supernovae is an old problem in relativistic astrophysics. Addressing this problem is important because it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 Matthias Hanauske , Kentaro Takami , Luke Bovard , Luciano Rezzolla , José A. Font , Filippo Galeazzi , Horst Stöcker

We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties measurable by gravitational wave detectors (chirp mass and mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Matt Nicholl , Ben Margalit , Patricia Schmidt , Graham P. Smith , Evan J. Ridley , James Nuttall

There is a high level of interest in black hole-neutron star binaries, not only because their mergers may be detected by gravitational wave observatories in the coming years, but also because of the possibility that they could explain a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-06 William E. East , Frans Pretorius , Branson C. Stephens

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 study the post-merger mass ejection of low-mass binary neutron stars (NSs) with the system mass of $2.5\, M_\odot$, and subsequent nucleosynthesis by performing general-relativistic, neutrino-radiation viscous-hydrodynamics simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Sho Fujibayashi , Shinya Wanajo , Kenta Kiuchi , Koutaro Kyutoku , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Masaru Shibata

Gravitational waves emitted during the coalescence of binary neutron star systems carry information about the equation of state describing the extremely dense matter inside neutron stars. In particular, the equation of state determines the…

Binary neutron star mergers observations are a unique way to constrain fundamental physics and astrophysics at the extreme. The interpretation of gravitational-wave events and their electromagnetic counterparts crucially relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Sebastiano Bernuzzi

The interaction between the fast-moving ejecta and the interstellar medium can produce long-lasting radio signals after binary neutron star mergers. Searching for such radio signals is a way to test the central engine of kilonovae and short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Jia-Xiang Chen , Shao-Ze Li

The merger of two compact objects of which at least one is a neutron star is signalled by transient electromagnetic emission in a kilonova (KN). This event is accompanied by gravitational waves and possibly other radiation messengers such…

We study the solution space of general relativistic, axisymmetric, equilibria of differentially rotating neutron stars with realistic, nuclear equations of state. We find that different types of stars, which were identified by earlier works…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Pedro Espino , Vasileios Paschalidis

Binary neutron star mergers provide insight into strong-field gravity and the properties of ultra-dense nuclear matter. These events offer the potential to search for signatures of physics beyond the standard model, including dark matter.…

Over the last few years, the detection of gravitational waves from binary neutron star systems has rekindled our hopes for a deeper understanding of the unknown nature of ultradense matter. In particular, gravitational wave constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-18 P. Laskos-Patkos , P. S. Koliogiannis , A. Kanakis-Pegios , Ch. C. Moustakidis

Observations of the high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the hot and massive remnant of a binary neutron star merger will provide new probes of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). We show that current uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis

We study in detail the f-mode secular instability for rapidly rotating neutron stars, putting emphasis on supermassive models which do not have a stable nonrotating counterpart. Such neutron stars are thought to be the generic outcome of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Daniela D. Doneva , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Pantelis Pnigouras

The joint detection of the gravitational wave GW170817, of the short $\gamma$-ray burst GRB170817A and of the kilonova AT2017gfo, generated by the the binary neutron star merger observed on August 17, 2017, is a milestone in multimessenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Matteo Breschi , Albino Perego , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Walter Del Pozzo , Vsevolod Nedora , David Radice , Diego Vescovi

We use the rapid binary stellar evolution code BINARY_C to estimate the rate of merging neutron stars with numerous combinations of envelope ejection efficiency and natal kick dispersion. We find a peak in the local rate of merging neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-28 Alexander M. Tanaka , Avishai Gilkis , Robert G. Izzard , Christopher A. Tout