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We perform 3D numerical simulations for merger of equal mass binary neutron stars in full general relativity preparing irrotational binary neutron stars in a quasiequilibrium state as initial conditions. Simulations have been carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masaru Shibata , Koji Uryu

The detection of gravitational waves from coalescing binary neutron stars represents another milestone in gravitational-wave astronomy. However, since LIGO is currently not as sensitive to the merger/ringdown part of the waveform, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-03 Huan Yang , William E. East , Luis Lehner

The discovery of GW170817 with gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation is prompting new questions in strong-gravity astrophysics. Importantly, it remains unknown whether the progenitor of the merger comprised two…

We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the impact of different treatment of microphysics and grid resolution in binary neutron star mergers. We consider series of simulations at multiple resolutions comparing hydrodynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Francesco Zappa , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , David Radice , Albino Perego

Gravitational waves from binary neutron star coalescences contain rich information about matter at supranuclear densities encoded by the neutron star equation of state. We can measure the equation of state by analyzing the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Francisco Hernandez Vivanco , Rory Smith , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Colm Talbot , Vivien Raymond

The second supernova that forms double-neutron-star systems is expected to occur in a progenitor that is ultra-stripped due to binary interactions. Thus, the secondary neutron star's mass as well as the post-supernova binary's orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-26 A. Miguel Holgado

With recent advances in neutron star observations, major progress has been made in determining the pressure of neutron star matter at high density. This pressure is constrained by the neutron star deformability, determined from…

The 2017 detection of a kilonova coincident with gravitational-wave emission has identified neutron star mergers as the major source of the heaviest elements, and dramatically constrained alternative theories of gravity. Observing a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Christian N. Setzer , Hiranya V. Peiris , Oleg Korobkin , Stephan Rosswog

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

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are amongst promising candidates for the joint detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals with gravitational waves (GWs) and are expected to be detected in the near future. Here we study the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , George Smoot

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has expanded efforts to understand the Equation of State (EoS) of nuclear matter. These measurements provide new constraints on the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-24 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

We study the influence of hyperons in binary neutron star (NS) mergers considering a total of 14 temperature dependent equations of state (EoSs) models which include hyperonic degrees of freedom and partly delta resonances. Thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Hristijan Kochankovski , Georgios Lioutas , Sebastian Blacker , Andreas Bauswein , Angels Ramos , Laura Tolos

Gravitational wave astronomy has established its role in measuring the equation of state governing cold supranuclear matter. To date and in the near future, gravitational wave measurements from neutron star binaries are likely to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Ka Wa Tsang , Tim Dietrich , Chris Van Den Broeck

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

The oscillation of neutrons $n$ into mirror neutrons $n'$, their mass degenerate partners from dark mirror sector, can have interesting implications for neutron stars: an ordinary neutron star could gradually transform into a mixed star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Zurab Berezhiani , Riccardo Biondi , Massimo Mannarelli , Francesco Tonelli

The electromagnetic (EM) signal of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger depends sensitively on the total binary mass, $M_{\rm tot}$, relative to various threshold masses set by the neutron star (NS) equation-of-state (EOS), parameterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

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…

In the past few years, new observations of neutron stars and neutron-star mergers have provided a wealth of data that allow one to constrain the equation of state of nuclear matter at densities above nuclear saturation density. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 Peter T. H. Pang , Ingo Tews , Michael W. Coughlin , Mattia Bulla , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tim Dietrich

The remnant star of a neutron star merger is an anticipated loud source of kiloHertz gravitational waves that conveys unique information on the equation of state of hot matter at extreme densities. Observations of such signals are hampered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-22 Matteo Breschi , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Francesco Zappa , Michalis Agathos , Albino Perego , David Radice , Alessandro Nagar

The first binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, and its bright electromagnetic counterpart have provided a remarkable amount of information. By contrast, the second event, GW190425, with $M_{\rm tot}=3.4^{+0.3}_{-0.1}\,M_{\odot}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-18 Elias R. Most , Lukas R. Weih , Luciano Rezzolla