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Precision pulsar timing at the level of tens to hundreds of nanoseconds allows detection of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) at the cores of merging galaxies and, potentially, from exotic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-25 J. M. Cordes , M. A. McLaughlin

The neutron-star collision revealed by the event GW170817 gave us a first glimpse of a possible birthplace of most of our heavy elements. The multi-messenger nature of this historical event combined gravitational waves, a gamma-ray burst…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-11-18 David Lunney

By numerically inverting the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov (TOV) equation using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) of dense neutron-rich nucleonic matter, a restricted EOS parameter space is established using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-18 Nai-Bo Zhang , Bao-An Li

Core-collapse supernovae are predicted to produce gravitational waves (GWs) that may be detectable by Advanced LIGO/Virgo. These GW signals carry information from the heart of these catacylsmic events, where matter reaches nuclear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-31 Noah E. Wolfe , Carla Frohlich , Jonah M. Miller , Alejandro Torres-Forne , Pablo Cerda-Duran

Gravitational waves from neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers that undergo tidal disruption provide a potential avenue to study the equation of state of neutron stars and hence the behaviour of matter at its most extreme densities. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Teagan A. Clarke , Lani Chastain , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

In a recent paper we have deduced the basic equations that predict the emission of gravitational waves (GW) according to the Einstein gravitation theory. In a subsequent paper these equations have been used to calculate the luminosities and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 M. Cattani

Gravitational wave (GW) detections of binary neutron star inspirals will be crucial for constraining the dense matter equation of state (EoS). We demonstrate a new degeneracy in the mapping from tidal deformability data to the EoS, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Carolyn A. Raithel , Elias R. Most

We report results of a numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of a black hole-neutron star binary with a variety of equations of state (EOSs) modeled by piecewise polytropes. We focus in particular on the dependence of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Koutarou Kyutoku , Masaru Shibata , Keisuke Taniguchi

The recent discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new avenue for investigating the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter in compact stars, which is an outstanding problem in astronomy and nuclear physics. In the future,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 Ziming Wang , Yong Gao , Dicong Liang , Junjie Zhao , Lijing Shao

The LIGO-Virgo collaboration ground-breaking detection of the binary neutron-star merger event, GW170817, has intensified efforts towards the understanding of the equation of state (EoS) of nuclear matter. In this letter, we compare…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-07-18 C. Y. Tsang , M. B. Tsang , P. Danielewicz , W. G. Lynch , F. J. Fattoyev

Explaining gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers requires an understanding of matter beyond nuclear saturation density. Our current knowledge of the properties of high-density matter relies on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Giuseppe Rivieccio , Davide Guerra , Milton Ruiz , José A. Font

The gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars carry unique information about their structure and composition. Direct detection of these gravitational waves, however, is a formidable technical challenge. In a recent study we quantified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna L. Watts , Badri Krishnan

The gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by neutron star binaries probe the physics of matter at supra nuclear densities. During the late inspiral, tidal deformations raised on each star by the gravitational field of its companion depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-19 Justin L. Ripley , Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Rohit S. Chandramouli , and Nicolas Yunes

The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical systematics compared to neutron star radius measurements with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Zack Carson , Andrew W. Steiner , Kent Yagi

A number of works have shown that important information on the equation of state of matter at nuclear density can be extracted from the gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron-star binaries. We present a comprehensive analysis of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are sensitive to the nuclear equation of state (EOS). We present a new methodology for EOS inference with non-parametric Gaussian process (GP) priors, enabling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Nikhil Sarin , Hiranya V. Peiris , Daniel J. Mortlock , Justin Alsing , Samaya M. Nissanke , Stephen M. Feeney

Gravitational waves (GWs) from primordial black holes (PBHs) inspiraling within neutron stars (NSs) -- should they exist -- are detectable by ground-based detectors and offer a unique insight into the internal structure of NSs. To provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Qing Gao , Ning Dai , Yungui Gong , Chao Zhang , Chunyu Zhang , Yang Zhao

Gravitational waves emitted by neutron star black hole mergers encode key properties of neutron stars - such as their size, maximum mass and spins - and black holes. However, the presence of matter and the high mass ratio makes generating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Yiwen Huang , Carl-Johan Haster , Salvatore Vitale , Vijay Varma , Francois Foucart , Sylvia Biscoveanu

Properties of neutron stars in GW170817 are investigated using different equations of state (EoS) involving nucleons, $\Lambda$ hyperons, quarks resulting in $2M_{\odot}$ neutron stars. This calculation is performed using the same EoS for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-02 Sajad A. Bhat , Debades Bandyopadhyay

Proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors such as DECIGO and BBO will detect ~10^6 neutron-star (NS) binaries and determine the luminosity distances to the binaries with high precision. Combining the luminosity distances with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-27 Atsushi Nishizawa , Kent Yagi , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Tanaka