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It was shown recently, that normalized relations between the moment of inertia (I), the quadrupole moment (Q) and the tidal deformability (Love number) exist and for slowly-rotating neutron stars they are almost independent of the equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-25 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Kostas D. Kokkotas

In this short note, we investigate the existence of universal relations between the gravimagnetic Love number of irrotational stars and the dimensionless moment of inertia. These Love numbers take into account the internal motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-29 Térence Delsate

The tidal deformability is a key observable to test the nature of compact objects in a binary coalescence. Within vacuum General Relativity, the tidal Love numbers of a four-dimensional black hole are strictly zero, while they are non-zero…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-26 Michela Silvestrini , Elisa Maggio , Sumanta Chakraborty , Paolo Pani

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences are valuable for testing theories of gravity in the strong field regime. By measuring neutron star tidal deformability using gravitational waves from binary neutron stars, stringent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Stephanie M. Brown

The emergence of the I-Love-Q relations, revealing that the moment of inertia, the tidal Love number (deformability) and the spin-induced quadrupole moment of compact stars are, to high accuracy, interconnected in a universal way…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 T. K. Chan , AtMa P. O. Chan , P. T. Leung

This article is intended for undergraduate students with the aim to provide a pedagogical introduction to the physics of stellar tidal deformations. The spherically symmetric shape of any star is deformed via rotation around an arbitrary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-02 Andreas Zacchi

The tidal deformability of a self-gravitating object leaves an imprint on the gravitational-wave signal of an inspiral which is paramount to measure the internal structure of the binary components. We unveil here a surprisingly unnoticed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 Paolo Pani , Andrea Maselli

Gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems can shed light on the currently unknown dense matter equation of state. The equation of state determines a large number of neutron star properties, such as tidal deformability,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-17 Natalie Williams , Anna Puecher , Guilherme Grams , César V. Flores , Tim Dietrich

The tidal Love numbers of self-gravitating compact objects describe their response to external tidal perturbations, such as those from a companion in a binary system, offering valuable insights into their internal structure. For static…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Enrico Cannizzaro , Valerio De Luca , Paolo Pani

Moment of inertia ($I$), rotational~(tidal) Love number ($\lambda^{\rm (rot)}$) and quadrupole moment ($Q$) of slowly rotating massive neutron star~(NS) with holographic multiquark~(MQ) core are computed in comparison to pure MQ star. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-25 Piyabut Burikham , Sitthichai Pinkanjanarod , Supakchai Ponglertsakul

Recently it was shown that slowly rotating neutron stars exhibit an interesting correlation between their moment of inertia $I$, their quadrupole moment $Q$, and their tidal deformation Love number $\lambda$ (the I-Love-Q relations),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-31 George Pappas , Theocharis A. Apostolatos

Though individual stellar parameters of compact stars usually demonstrate obvious dependence on the equation of state (EOS), EOS-insensitive universal formulas relating these parameters remarkably exist. In the present paper, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 T. K. Chan , Y. -H. Sham , P. T. Leung , L. -M. Lin

Neutron stars are ideal to probe, not only nuclear physics, but also strong-field gravity. Approximate universal relations insensitive to the star's internal structure exist among certain observables and are useful in testing General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-27 Toral Gupta , Barun Majumder , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

The tidal deformability of compact objects by a companion has a detectable imprint in the gravitational waves emitted by a binary system. This effect is governed by the so-called tidal Love numbers. For a particular theory of gravity, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-25 Vitor Cardoso , Francisco Duque

An important physical phenomenon that manifests itself during the inspiral of two orbiting compact objects is the tidal deformation of each under the gravitational influence of its companion. In the case of binary neutron star mergers, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-22 Vaishak Prasad , Anshu Gupta , Sukanta Bose , Badri Krishnan

Quasi-universal relations are known to exist among various neutron star observables that do not depend sensitively on the underlying nuclear matter equations of state. For example, some of these relations imply that the tidally induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Takuya Katagiri , Gowtham Rishi Mukkamala , Kent Yagi

Despite the large uncertainties in the equation of state for neutron stars (NSs), a tight universal ``Love-Q'' relation exists between their dimensionless tidal deformability, $\Lambda$, and the dimensionless quadrupole moment, $Q$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhihao Zheng , Ziming Wang , Jinwen Deng , Yiming Dong , Lijing Shao

One of the macroscopically measurable effects of gravity is the tidal deformability of astrophysical objects, which can be quantified by their tidal Love numbers. For planets and stars, these numbers measure the resistance of their material…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Cecilia Chirenti , Camilo Posada , Victor Guedes

Gravitational-wave observations in the near future may allow us to measure tidal deformabilities of neutron stars, which leads us to the understanding of physics at nuclear density. In principle, the gravitational waveform depends on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Kent Yagi

Quasi-universal relations connecting the tidal deformability and the quadrupole moment of individual neutron stars are predicted by theoretical computations, but have not been measured experimentally. However, such relations are employed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Anuradha Samajdar , Tim Dietrich